Predis.ai vs Blotato (2026): The Add-On That Is Overpriced At The Bottom And 14x Cheaper At The Top
- Predis.ai add-on channels cost $5.00 each on Core, $0.625 on Rise, $0.2475 on Enterprise+ — 2.1x the tier average at the bottom, 14x cheaper at the top. One vendor, opposite verdicts.
- The word credit is not portable: a Predis image is 15 credits at about $0.0242 each, so roughly $0.363 per image; Blotato tops up near $0.006 per credit and calls one credit one image.
- Predis meters AI writing at 25,000/50,000/250,000 words per month; Blotato states "Writing is unlimited on every plan". That is the one deliverable both sell, and one of them caps it.
- Predis contradicts itself four ways: the annual discount (25/30/15% vs a 30%-off toggle), the credit example (4 vs 5), the video estimate (implies 5.8s while pricing 8s), and an FAQ of dead plans.
Two tabs open. Both say "credits". Predis.ai Core gives you 1,300 a month for $24; Blotato Starter gives you 1,250 for $29. Almost the same number, so almost the same deal, so pick on features and move on.
Except one Predis image costs 15 credits and one Blotato credit is, in Blotato's own words, "roughly a generated image". Convert both to the thing you actually wanted — a finished image — and the gap is not 4%. It is closer to sixty times. The unit was doing all the work and neither page lied to you.
All figures below are first-party, pulled 2026-09-18.
The finding worth more than the verdict: one vendor, two opposite rules
There is a rule of thumb that circulates in every tool-comparison thread: buying the add-on is always cheaper than buying the next tier. Predis.ai kills it in a single screenshot, because inside one vendor the rule flips end to end.
| Predis.ai tier | Annual price/mo | Channels | Tier average (÷ channels) | Channel add-on | Add-on per channel | Add-on vs average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core | $24 | 10 | $2.40 | "1 Social Channel ($5/month)" | $5.000 | 2.1x more expensive |
| Rise | $55 | 20 | $2.75 | "40 Social Channels ($25/month)" | $0.625 | 4.4x cheaper |
| Enterprise+ | $212 | 60 | $3.53 | "400 Social Channels ($99/month)" | $0.2475 | 14x cheaper |
Read the last column twice. On the cheapest plan the add-on costs more than twice what the plan itself charges per channel. On the dearest plan it costs about one fourteenth. The reversal is not an artefact of the annual basis either — on monthly billing the tier averages are $3.20, $3.95 and $4.15, and the add-ons are still the same $5 / $25 / $99, so Core's add-on is still above its average.
The add-on is not cheaper or dearer than the tier. It depends on which tier you are standing on — which means the rule is a property of your position, not of the vendor.
Notice the other thing that column does: Predis's own per-channel price rises as you climb, $2.40 to $2.75 to $3.53. That is what a genuine tier ladder does, and it is why the entry-level add-on can be the most overpriced cell on the page while the top-tier add-on is the best value on it.
Same-day numbers, and the two columns nobody publishes
| Plan | Monthly | Annual/mo | Accounts | Monthly ÷ accounts (annual basis) | Output quota | Cost per image (derived) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Predis Core | $32 | $24 ($288/yr) | 10 channels | $2.40 | 1,300 credits, 25,000 words | $0.279 |
| Predis Rise | $79 | $55 ($664/yr) | 20 | $2.75 | 3,200 credits, 50,000 words | $0.258 |
| Predis Enterprise+ | $249 | $212 ($2,540/yr) | 60 | $3.53 | 10,000 credits, 250,000 words | $0.318 |
| Blotato Starter | $29 | not published | 20 | $1.45 | 1,250 credits, unlimited writing, "Up to 900 TikTok posts/month" ($0.032/post) | ~$0.023 |
| Blotato Creator | $97 | not published | 40 | $2.43 | 5,000 credits, unlimited writing | ~$0.019 |
| Blotato Agency | $499 | not published | not published | not computable | 28,000 credits | ~$0.018 |
The cost-per-image column is where the comparison stops being close. Predis prices an image at 15 credits and tops up at $29 per 1,200 credits, which is $0.0242 a credit, so $0.363 per image at the margin. Blotato tops up at $30 per 5,000 credits, about $0.006 a credit, and says a credit is roughly an image. On the base plans the gap is about 12x; at the top-up rate it is about 60x for the same deliverable. Both pages were honest. The word "credit" simply is not a unit.
Which unit is the gate, and which side gets squeezed
Predis stacks four gates, and they are nested, which is unusual:
- Channels (10/20/60) — the account gate.
- Credits (1,300/3,200/10,000) — the asset gate.
- Words (25,000/50,000/250,000 per month) — a separate cap on AI writing.
- Auto-posting throughput, per brand — Core has "No Auto Posting"; Rise allows "Max 2 posts... auto-posted daily per brand"; Enterprise+ allows 3 — and both are qualified "subject to credits availability", so gate 4 is conditional on gate 2.
Above all four sits a fifth, unquantified one: the fair-usage clause, which says over 98% of users stay inside undisclosed "Parameters" and that exceeding them "may lead to access being throttled or restricted, with or without prior notice". Team members, meanwhile, are "Unlimited" on every Predis tier.
Blotato is the mirror: "no per-post fees, no seat fees", unlimited writing, and metering on accounts, credits and DM/comment contacts — plus the one platform ceiling almost nobody prints, "Up to 900 TikTok posts/month" on the entry tier.
So both vendors put scarcity on the content side and give the people side away. That is the answer, and it is bad news for one specific reader: the matrix operator. If your bottleneck is producing different content for many accounts, you are the person every gate on both pages is pointed at, and the "unlimited team members" line is worth nothing to you. If your bottleneck is a growing team reviewing a fixed amount of content, both of these are unusually cheap and you should stop reading comparison tables.
The sharpest single contrast is gate 3. AI writing is the one deliverable both products sell, and Predis caps it at 25,000 words a month on Core while Blotato states "Writing is unlimited on every plan". At roughly 40 words a caption that is about 625 captions on Core — generous for one brand, a wall for twenty accounts.
Four places the Predis page contradicts itself today
None of these are gotchas. Each one changes a number somebody would put in a table.
- The annual discount is not what the toggle says. The switch reads "Annually 30% off". The cards read "25% off" (Core), "30% off" (Rise), "15% off" (Enterprise+) — and the arithmetic confirms all three: $288 vs $384 is exactly 25%, $664 vs $948 is exactly 30%, $2,540 vs $2,988 is exactly 15%. The headline is true for one tier out of three, and the tier that spends the most gets the smallest discount.
- The credit table disagrees with its own worked example. The table prices a faceless video at 5 credits per 10 seconds. The example immediately below reads "1 social post (15 credits) + 10s voiceover video (4 credits) = 19 credits". The example is internally consistent and externally wrong by one credit. Reported as found.
- The per-tier video estimate implies a shorter video than the page prices. Each card offers a friendly conversion — Core is "About 86 images or 9 videos", Rise "213 images or 22 videos", Enterprise+ "666 images or 71 videos". The image figures check out exactly at 15 credits each. The video figures do not: at the table's own rate of 200 credits per 8-second standard video, 1,300 credits buys 6.5 videos, not 9. Back out the implied length and every tier assumes a video of about 5.8 seconds. The headline count is roughly 38% more optimistic than the credit table allows.
- The FAQ recommends plans that are not on the page. "Which plan is better for me?" answers with "Starter or Solo plan" and "Starter or Agency plan". Today's tiers are Core, Rise and Enterprise+. A comparison built from that FAQ would be built on names that no longer exist.
One more piece of housekeeping for anyone screenshotting prices in September: the page carries a "BFCM deal: up to 50% off yearly plans" banner. Black Friday promotions running in mid-September are the second out-of-season banner we have logged this month, and a discount that is permanently on is a price, not a discount.
Four moves, then, in order, whenever two AI content tools quote you credits:
- Convert credits to deliverables before comparing anything. Divide the top-up price by the credits, then multiply by the credits per image or per second of video. Compare those.
- Compute the add-on rate for your tier, not for the vendor. Predis proves the same add-on is a rip-off on one plan and the best cell on the page two plans up.
- Count the gates, then find the one that is conditional. Predis's auto-post limit is capped by the credit limit, so raising one alone does nothing.
- Divide the annual total by twelve times the monthly price for every tier separately. Headline discounts are frequently accurate for exactly one row.
If the gate closing on you is the content side across many accounts — different posts for each one, published from your own logins — that is a different shape of product. NoobClaw is one of them: a desktop engine where each account runs in its own local fingerprint browser profile, you never hand over passwords, and content is generated per account rather than copied across them. Pricing there moves with actions and assets too, so the same discipline applies: work out your own unit before you compare.
Related same-method breakdowns: Blotato's two ceilings and which one you hit first, Blotato against Buffer's metered channels, Postiz vs Blotato, and — for the annual-versus-monthly trap specifically — Metricool's four simultaneous price grids.
FAQ
Is Predis.ai cheaper than Blotato?
Per social account, yes at the bottom and no in the middle: on 2026-09-18 Predis Core is $2.40 per channel on annual billing against Blotato Starter's $1.45, and Predis Rise is $2.75 against Blotato Creator's $2.43. Per generated image it is not close — roughly $0.28 to $0.32 on Predis's base plans against roughly $0.02 on Blotato's, and about 60x apart at each vendor's top-up rate. Which answer matters depends on whether accounts or assets are your constraint.
Should I buy the extra-channel add-on or move up a tier?
Work it out for the tier you are on, because Predis answers it both ways. On Core the add-on is $5.00 per channel against a tier average of $2.40, so a few extra channels are worse value than the plan itself. On Rise the add-on is $0.625 and on Enterprise+ $0.2475, far below those tiers' averages of $2.75 and $3.53. The general rule that add-ons beat upgrades is a tendency, not a law, and this single vendor contains both outcomes.
How many videos do Predis credits actually buy?
Fewer than the card suggests, if you want the 8-second standard or UGC format the credit table prices at 200 credits. Core's 1,300 credits buy 6.5 of those, though the card advertises "about 9 videos" — a figure that only works if each video runs about 5.8 seconds. Faceless video is far cheaper at 5 credits per 10 seconds, although the page's own worked example puts that at 4. Plan against the credit table, not against the friendly estimate.