LinkedIn Ghostwriter Cost 2026: Rates From 25 Real Price Lists

A LinkedIn ghostwriter costs a median of $1,016 a month at entry level, based on 22 human providers that publish a monthly price. The middle half of those prices sits between about $425 and $2,500 a month, with agencies at a median of $2,250 and marketplace freelancers at $795. Where a provider states an exact post count, the median works out to about $70 per post.

Every figure below was read on the provider's own page or listing on 15 October 2026.

#How the prices were collected

Most articles on this topic quote unsourced ranges, often from agencies that hide their own rates. This survey only counts prices a provider publishes about itself.

I searched for agency pricing pages, solo ghostwriter sites, and service listings on Contra, Upwork, Fiverr, Guru, ComeUp and Gumroad. A provider made it into the dataset only if a price was visible on its own page or listing. When a comparison article quoted a rival's price and I could not open that rival's page, the price was left out.

The final set has 25 human providers and 4 AI tools:

• Agencies (10): firms with a team and their own site.
• Solo, own site (1): an individual writer with a published price list on a personal site.
• Marketplace (14): individuals selling through a platform listing.
• AI tools (4): self-serve software, reported separately.

For the monthly median, I used each provider's lowest recurring monthly price. That is the number a buyer sees first, and it keeps one provider from counting three times. One price was in UAE dirhams and was converted at the pegged rate of 3.6725 AED to the dollar.

#Price summary by provider type

The solo row has one data point because almost every independent writer I found either sells through a marketplace or quotes only after a call. Treat solo and marketplace writers as one group if you want a larger sample: 12 independents, median $697.50 a month.

Per-post prices only use listings that state an exact count, such as "12 posts" or "four a week." Listings that say "up to 8" or "4 to 6" were left out of that calculation. Four marketplace listings sell one-off post packs rather than a monthly plan, so they appear in the per-post figures but not the monthly ones.

#What pushes the price up

The writing is the base. The extras move a package from $500 to $5,000.

Engagement work. On Contra, Sara T. charges $300 a month for 8 posts with 15 minutes of daily commenting. Her $500 tier adds 4 more posts, profile positioning and wider commenting on ideal clients. Perceptric's jump from $2,500 to $3,000 a month adds comment engagement on target accounts, plus a newsletter and profile work.

Newsletters and long-form. Joyce Asamoah's $2,500 monthly package on Contra includes up to three posts a week plus one article or newsletter. Underdog Ghostwriting's top plan, at $6,500 a month, covers "up to 100 pieces a month across LinkedIn, X and a newsletter."

Lead capture and outbound. Perceptric's $5,000 Authority tier adds a quarterly lead magnet and a landing page. Reachly prices its done-for-you retainer "from $3,500 a month for the full outbound stack." Cleverly's $697 plan bundles 12 posts with a network growth campaign.

Design. Marc Bovenzi's top Contra tier at $1,295 a month adds custom graphics to 20 posts. Underdog's $3,500 plan adds carousels, infographics and research on every draft.

Strategy time. A Jaipur-based freelancer on Guru charges $297 a month for 4 posts with a 30-minute strategy session. The $1,497 tier delivers 12 posts plus bi-weekly calls, four long articles and a quarterly strategy refresh. Per post, the price rises from $74 to $125 as the strategy load grows.

Commitment terms. Perceptric quotes its rates on a 12-month term. A 6-month contract costs 5% more and a 3-month contract costs 10% more. ItsHerWay requires 6 months. Underdog bills quarterly with a 90-day minimum.

Volume alone does little to the per-post price. Bovenzi's three tiers work out to $66, $62 and $65 per post. Chinaza Esther's run $50, $62.50 and $60. In this data, buyers pay more per post for services wrapped around the post, not for the post itself.

#Agency vs solo vs marketplace vs AI tool

Agencies charge the most and publish the least. Of the agencies I reviewed, many showed no price at all, including Windmill Growth, Foundera, EcomGhosts and The Digital Writing Firm, several of which publish pricing guides about everyone else. The 10 that did publish ranged from ItsHerWay at AED 999 (about $272) to StartupCookie, whose programs "start at $5,000 a month." The higher price usually buys a team, a fixed process and continuity if a writer leaves.

Marketplace freelancers are the cheapest route to a human writer. The 11 with monthly packages had a median of $795. Prices cluster below $1,000, with a smaller group at $1,200 to $2,500 offering strategy and longer formats. Abigail M. on Upwork shows the spread inside one profile: $700 for an 8-post project and "from $2,500/month" for an ongoing partnership with interviews, research and publishing.

Solo writers with their own site were the hardest to price. Most ask for a call first. The one with a full rate card, Chinaza Esther, charges $400 for 8 posts, $750 for 12 and $1,200 for 20.

AI tools sit in a different price band. Taplio's own pricing page lists Starter at $39 a month (no AI writing), Growth at $69 and Pro at $199. Supergrow Pro is $39 a month, or $31 billed annually. Postiv starts at $99 a month. Scripe's Solo plan is €55 a month billed yearly. Postbeam shows both models side by side: $39 per user for its software and $499 a month for a ghostwriter working inside the tool. The gap is not only price. A tool drafts. It does not interview you, choose your angles or tell you a post is weak.

Marketplace hourly rates are lower still. Upwork's own hourly rate guide, published 12 May 2026, lists ghostwriters at $20 to $45 an hour and LinkedIn specialists at $15 to $42, and calls these "directional benchmarks rather than hard rules." Individual listings in this survey ranged from $20 an hour (Ahoura, Contra) and $40 (Guru) to $150 (Alexa N., Fiverr). Storyd's Clutch profile lists $100 to $149 an hour.

#Red flags in a ghostwriting quote

• No post count. Several listings, including some at $400 to $1,500 a month, never say how many posts you get. Ask for a number per month in writing.
• "Up to" volumes. "Up to 3 posts a week" can mean 4 posts a month. Agree a minimum.
• Engagement that is not defined. "Engagement strategy" can mean a document. "Daily commenting on 5 to 7 accounts" is a service. Know which one you are paying for.
• View guarantees with conditions. Underdog's 100,000-view guarantee applies only if you hand over full control of topics and timing. Read the conditions before you count on the number.
• Long lock-ins before a trial month. Six- and twelve-month minimums exist in this data. Ask whether a paid first month or a short sprint is available.
• Rate pages that only show other people's prices. If an agency publishes a pricing guide but not its own rates, expect a quote above the guide's midpoint.
• Inconsistent listing prices. Two listings in this survey showed different prices in different parts of the same page. Confirm the figure before you pay.

#How to budget

1. Posts only, you handle comments: $300 to $800 a month buys 8 to 12 posts from a marketplace writer in this survey. Expect to supply most of the ideas.
2. Posts with strategy and interviews: $1,200 to $2,500 a month. This is where independents with strategy calls and mid-tier agencies overlap.
3. Posts, engagement, newsletter or outbound: $2,500 to $5,000 a month and up, mostly agencies.

Add a line for your own time. Every service here needs input from you, from a 30-minute call a month to bi-weekly recorded sessions. Plan for 3 months before judging results, because several providers build in that minimum.

#Appendix: every provider surveyed

Prices as shown on 15 October 2026. Entry price is the lowest published recurring monthly price unless marked one-off or hourly.

#Methodology

Date checked: 15 October 2026. Each price was read on the provider's own page or platform listing during this research.

Monthly median: the lowest recurring monthly price per provider, for the 22 human providers that publish one. One-off post packs (Upwork project, Fiverr, ComeUp, Gumroad) and the hourly-only listing were excluded from this figure. Irshad Azeez's listing is described as "a month's worth" of content and was counted as monthly. Reachly's price includes outbound work; without it the agency median is $2,000 (n=9) and the all-provider median is $832.50 (n=21).

Per-post median: entry price divided by an exact stated post count, for 12 providers. "Four posts a week" was converted at 52 weeks over 12 months (17.3 posts). Listings with "up to," "about" or ranged counts were excluded. Typical range is the interquartile range of the 22 monthly prices ($424.75 to $2,500).

Dropped from the dataset: providers whose prices I saw only in a third party's article (storyarb, Windmill Growth, Jennavi, Kurogo, Nova Impact, SA Personal Branding, Nautilus Marketing, BuntingPost, ViralBrain); Socials by Courtnei (Instagram services, not LinkedIn); a Gumroad storefront whose seller was not named and whose price field read $0; a Jasmine Sandler package that is a one-time branding program, not ongoing writing; and providers that publish no price at all.

Limits: listed prices are not negotiated prices, and a sample of 25 is a snapshot, not a census.

#Sources

• Upwork, Upwork Hourly Rates by skill, May 2026
• Taplio, Taplio Pricing 2026
• Supergrow, Pricing
• Postiv, LinkedIn Ghostwriter
• Scripe, Pricing
• Postbeam, Done-For-You LinkedIn Ghostwriting
• Underdog Ghostwriting, LinkedIn Ghostwriting Cost and Pricing (2026)
• Perceptric, B2B LinkedIn Thought Leadership
• Reachly, LinkedIn ghostwriter cost in 2026
• All other provider pages are linked in the appendix.