LinkedIn ghostwriter cost: real prices and hidden costs
Published prices from AI tools, freelancers and agencies, plus the costs no quote shows: your hours, edit rounds and posts you end up rewriting.
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A LinkedIn ghostwriter costs from about $1,200 a month for a newer freelancer to $6,500 a month or more for an agency, going by the prices people actually publish. AI writing tools cost $19 to $199 a month, and with those you still do the writing.
The invoice is only part of what you pay. The rest is your time in calls and edits, plus the posts you end up rewriting yourself, and that part decides whether a quote is cheap or expensive.
What LinkedIn ghostwriters charge in 2026#
These are prices from public pricing pages I opened in September 2026. Most agencies still quote after a sales call instead of publishing a number, so treat these as reference points rather than the whole market.
| Option | Published price | What that price covers |
|---|---|---|
| AI writing tool | Supergrow (opens in a new tab): $19 or $39 a month | Software that drafts and schedules posts. You bring the ideas, edit and approve. |
| AI writing tool | Taplio (opens in a new tab): $39, $69 or $199 a month, billed monthly | Same job. The $39 plan covers scheduling and analytics, and AI writing starts on the $69 plan. |
| Done-for-you product | Mylance (opens in a new tab): $997 a month | 3 posts a week drafted and scheduled, plus a monthly strategy call |
| Freelancer, 0 to 2 years | $200 to $350 a post, or $1,200 to $2,000 a month for 4 to 6 posts | From Creator's rate guide (opens in a new tab) for ghostwriters |
| Freelancer, 2 to 5 years | $350 to $600 a post, or $2,500 to $4,500 a month | Same guide |
| Freelancer, 5+ years | $600 to $1,200 a post, or retainers from $5,000 a month | Same guide |
| Agency | Underdog Ghostwriting (opens in a new tab): $2,000, $3,500 or $6,500 a month | Billed quarterly, 90-day minimum. Higher tiers add design, long-form and more platforms. |
| Agency | Column (opens in a new tab): from $2,000 a month | Roughly 15 pieces a month from a writing, design and research team, plus ads management (from a 2024 article) |
Pricing guides land in the same place. Mylance's guide (opens in a new tab) puts most LinkedIn ghostwriters between $1,000 and $5,000 a month, with full-service work running $5,000 to $15,000 and up.
Per post or per month#
Most ghostwriters sell a monthly retainer. Creator's guide (opens in a new tab) notes that per-post pricing is less common at the senior level, because the work includes ongoing strategy as well as writing.
A per-post price suits a one-off, like a launch announcement or a single big update. For a steady presence, compare retainers by how many posts go live each month, since that is what you are buying.
Why two quotes for the same posts can be far apart#
Two quotes for 12 posts a month can differ by thousands of dollars even though the post count matches. The gap comes from the work around the writing.
Where the ideas come from#
A writer working from a topic list and your website is quick and cheap. A writer who interviews you gets your real stories, numbers and opinions, which is the only material that makes a post sound like you.
Interviews cost more because someone has to prepare the questions and then turn a transcript into posts. We plan each client interview around 12 questions, one for each post, so a single conversation feeds a full batch.
Who checks the draft before you see it#
With cheap writing, the draft comes straight to you and you become the editor. A better service checks its own work first.
Ours is a written list of AI tells that every draft is checked against before a client sees it. It covers em dashes, colons that set up a list, contrasts that define something by what it isn't, and a list of banned words. The last check is a judgment call: would the client publish every line under their own name? A story someone told on a call is not always one they want on LinkedIn.
What sits around the posts#
Images and carousels, scheduling, replying to comments, a profile rewrite and outreach are each real work. Some quotes include several of them and some include none, and a posts-only price will always look cheaper next to a bundle.
Terms and revisions#
Billing cycle and minimum term change the real price. A lower monthly fee with a quarterly lock-in can cost more than a higher one you can cancel after a bad month.
Some packages advertise unlimited revisions. That protects the writer more than you, because every round still needs you to read the draft, write notes and wait for the next version.
What the fee should include: a checklist#
Put every quote you get against this table. Where a quote says nothing, ask before you assume it's included.
| Line item | Ask this |
|---|---|
| Idea capture | How often do we talk, for how long, and who prepares the questions? |
| Voice | What do you read to learn how I sound, and how do you check a draft against it? |
| Output | How many posts go live a month, and does a carousel count as one? |
| Quality check | What do you check before a draft reaches me? |
| Approval | How do I approve a post, and how many rounds are normal? |
| Images | Who makes the image or carousel for each post? |
| Publishing | Do you schedule and post, or send me a Doc to post myself? |
| Profile | Is the headline, About section and banner part of this? |
| Pipeline | Does anything turn readers into conversations, like a lead list, outreach or a CRM? |
| Contact and reports | Who is my named person, and what do I see each month? |
| Terms | What are the minimum term, billing cycle and notice period, and who owns the drafts? |
The last rows are where writing-only quotes and full-service quotes split. Posts build attention, and turning that attention into clients also takes a profile that turns visits into replies and outreach to the right people. The full chain is in how to get clients on LinkedIn.
The costs that never show up on the invoice#
Your hours#
Every option takes some of your time, and the cheaper ones take more of it. With an AI tool you are still the writer and the editor, and the software mostly saves typing.
With a writer, your hours go into the kickoff, regular calls, reading drafts and writing notes. Before you sign, ask the writer to estimate those hours for a normal month, then check the estimate against your first month.
Edit rounds#
A draft goes to you, you send notes, it comes back rewritten, and it goes around again. Each round costs you a read and a wait, and the writer spends that week reworking old posts instead of writing new ones.
We dropped that loop at Blen. Clients change a word themselves in their own app and approve the post, with no edit rounds. The reasoning is in why we stopped asking clients for edits.
Posts that sound like AI#
The quietest cost is a post your buyers read as machine-written, with your name on it. A cheap draft that you have to strip of AI tells before posting has moved the writing work back onto you. What those tells are, and how to keep them out, is in how to write LinkedIn posts with AI that sound human.
Work out your real cost per post#
Take any quote and run one sum:
Real cost per post = (monthly fee + your hours × what an hour of yours is worth) ÷ posts that went live
Here are two made-up quotes, with your time valued at $200 an hour.
- Quote A is $1,500 a month for 8 posts. Three of them needed heavy rewrites, so you spent 1 hour briefing, 3 hours on notes and 6 hours rewriting, 10 hours in all. That comes to (1,500 + 10 × 200) ÷ 8, or about $438 a post.
- Quote B is $3,000 a month for 12 posts. You spent 1 hour in an interview and 1 hour approving. That comes to (3,000 + 2 × 200) ÷ 12, or about $283 a post.
The quote with the smaller invoice costs about 50% more for every post that goes out. Your own numbers will differ, and the hours are the part most people guess too low, so track them for a month.
Freelancer, agency or AI tool: which cost fits#
- An AI tool fits if you enjoy writing, have a few hours every week and mainly want help drafting and scheduling. It is the least cash and the most of your time.
- A freelancer fits if you want one person who gets to know your stories. Ask what happens when they are ill or fully booked, since the whole service rests on one person.
- An agency fits if you want posts and the work around them handled, and you would rather approve than manage. Ask who writes your posts day to day and whether that person stays the same.
The side-by-side comparison, with what goes wrong in each model, is in LinkedIn ghostwriter vs agency vs AI.
Questions to ask before you sign#
- Can you walk me through one post, from the first question to the day it went live?
- What happens when a draft doesn't sound like me?
- How many hours a month will this take from me?
- What do clients usually end up paying for on top of this?
- How do you check a draft for AI tells before I see it?
- What is the minimum term, and what do I keep if I leave?
At Blen we run it as a monthly interview, posts written in your voice that you tweak and approve in your own app, and the profile rewrite, lead lists, outreach from your own account and a CRM in the same service. What that includes is on our pricing page.
Frequently asked questions#
How much does a LinkedIn ghostwriter charge per post?#
Creator's 2026 rate guide (opens in a new tab) puts newer writers at $200 to $350 a post, writers with 2 to 5 years of experience at $350 to $600, and senior writers at $600 to $1,200. Senior writers mostly work on monthly retainers instead, starting around $5,000 a month.
Is a LinkedIn ghostwriter worth it?#
It is worth it when LinkedIn can bring you clients, hires or investors and your time is the bottleneck. It isn't worth it if you can't give a writer raw material, because nobody can invent your stories for you. Run the cost-per-post sum above with your own hours before you decide.
Is it cheaper to use AI than a ghostwriter?#
In cash, yes. Tools like Supergrow (opens in a new tab) and Taplio (opens in a new tab) list plans between $19 and $199 a month. In hours it usually costs more, because you still bring the ideas and then fix the phrases that make a draft read as machine-written.
Does a ghostwriting fee include my LinkedIn profile or outreach?#
It depends on the quote, so ask. A writing retainer is priced around posts, while a profile rewrite, lead lists and outreach are separate pieces of work. If a quote doesn't name them, get it in writing before you assume they're included.
