Black Friday 2026 falls on Friday, November 27 and Cyber Monday on Monday, November 30. For AI writing and SEO tools, the calendar is still almost empty: as of October 22, 2026, nearly every vendor has announced nothing, and only NordVPN has published its dates and prices. This page goes through the tools one by one, with the date of each check. When a brand has announced nothing, we say so and give last year’s dated reference, never presented as a current offer.
In short: as of October 22, 2026, none of the SEO and writing tools tracked here (Semrush, SE Ranking, Surfer, QuillBot, Brevo, GetResponse, Jasper, our partner tools) has announced a Black Friday 2026 deal. NordVPN has: up to 78% off plus 3 extra months on its 2-year plan until Nov 24, then 2.99 EUR per month from Nov 24 to Dec 1, then a Cyber Monday offer from Dec 2 to Dec 9. This page is updated at each phase.
Updated October 22, 2026. Some links are affiliate links: we earn a commission if you subscribe, at no extra cost to you, and it does not change any figure quoted.
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The Black Friday 2026 calendar in three phases
We split the period into three phases, Paris time. The split follows NordVPN’s calendar, the only company on this page to have announced everything in advance. According to our monitoring, most AI and SEO tools open their offers between November 18 and November 27.
| Phase | Dates | Confirmed on October 22, 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Black Friday | Now until November 23, 2026 | NordVPN up to 78% off plus 3 months. SEO tools: nothing announced. |
| Black Friday week | November 24 to December 1, 2026 (includes Friday Nov 27 and Monday Nov 30) | NordVPN Basic 2-year plan at 2.99 EUR per month. SEO tools: to be checked. |
| NordVPN Cyber Monday | December 2 to December 9, 2026 | NordVPN Cyber Monday offer, ends December 9. |
| End | December 10, 2026 | Back to regular prices. |
A common source of confusion: the calendar’s Cyber Monday is Monday, November 30, but the offer NordVPN calls “Cyber Monday” only starts on December 2.
Phase 1, Black Friday: now until November 23
This is the pre-sale phase. What is actually live fits on two lines, and neither concerns an SEO or writing tool vendor.
- NordVPN: up to 78% off plus 3 extra months on the 2-year plan, from 3.49 EUR per month, until November 24 (source: official NordVPN email of October 21, 2026).
- NordPass: until December 9, Individual 2-year 53% off plus 3 months from 1.39 EUR per month, 1-year 33% off from 1.99 EUR; Family 2-year 58% off plus 3 months from 2.49 EUR, 1-year 38% off from 3.69 EUR (same source).
For every writing and SEO tool, the right stance at this stage is to wait. An annual plan bought today at full price costs more than the same plan bought during the promotion window, if there is one. And if there is none, you will have lost a few weeks, not money.
Phase 2, Black Friday week: November 24 to December 1
This is the window that counts. For NordVPN, the exclusive week offers the Basic 2-year plan at 2.99 EUR per month, billed as the best price of the year. For writing and SEO tools we cannot fill this section yet: nothing is announced.
Last year’s dated references hint at the likely calendar: Brevo opened its offer on November 19, 2025 and ran until December 1, 2025, GetResponse from November 20 to December 4, 2025. We will update this section on November 24 with the offers actually found at that time, and only those.
Phase 3, Cyber Monday: December 2 to December 9
NordVPN follows with its Cyber Monday offer, which ends on December 9. The price details are not published yet: we will fill them in on December 2. For writing and SEO tools this phase often works as a catch-up: in 2025, GetResponse ran until December 4. Nothing says it will be the same in 2026.
On December 10 everything goes back to normal. Offers still displayed at that date will be flagged as ended on this page.
Semrush, SE Ranking, Surfer, QuillBot, Brevo, GetResponse, Jasper: where each brand stands
Here is the status of the big names readers ask about most. “Official” means the reference comes from a vendor page. “Third-party source” means it comes from press or a comparison site and the vendor has not confirmed it.
| Tool | 2026 offer on October 22, 2026 | Dated reference |
|---|---|---|
| Semrush | Not announced yet | 2024, official: 1 month of Pro plus 1 hour of SEO consulting (Nov 11 to Dec 3, 2024). 2023, official: 30% off for 12 months. |
| SE Ranking | Not announced yet | 2025, official: an extra 20% off annual plans. |
| Surfer | Not announced yet | 2025, official: Scale plan, 20 AI Tracker prompts included. |
| QuillBot | Not announced yet | 2025, third-party source: 40% off the annual plan. |
| Brevo | Not announced yet | 2025, official (archive): 40% off the first year on annual Starter and Standard (Nov 19 to Dec 1, 2025). |
| GetResponse | Not announced yet | 2025, official (blog): up to 30% off the first year (Nov 20 to Dec 4, 2025). |
| Jasper | Not announced yet | No reliable 2025 reference in our check. |
Semrush
2026 offer not announced yet. Official 2024 reference: one month of the Pro plan and one hour of SEO consulting, from Nov 11 to Dec 3, 2024. Official 2023 reference: 30% off for 12 months. Two years, two different formats: better not to guess the 2026 one. Official page: Semrush pricing.
SE Ranking
2026 offer not announced yet. Official 2025 reference: an extra 20% off annual plans. Do not confuse it with the annual price the page already shows today with a 20% saving: that is not a Black Friday offer, it is the annual discount visible at our October 22, 2026 check. Official page: SE Ranking pricing.
Surfer
2026 offer not announced yet. Official 2025 reference: on the Scale plan, 20 AI Tracker prompts included. No percentage discount, so nothing to compare with the others. We have no partner program with Surfer: if you want a content optimizer to watch closely during promotions, look at NeuronWriter instead, and read our page on Surfer SEO pricing.
QuillBot
2026 offer not announced yet. 2025 reference, according to a third-party source, not confirmed by the vendor: 40% off the annual plan. The Premium page already shows annual billing with 58% off at our October 22, 2026 check: that is the page’s annual price, not an announced Black Friday offer. Official page: QuillBot Premium.
Brevo
2026 offer not announced yet. Official 2025 reference (archive): 40% off the first year on the Starter and Standard plans billed annually, from Nov 19 to Dec 1, 2025. Brevo is an email tool: it matters to newsletter publishers who write their copy with AI. Official page: Brevo pricing.
GetResponse
2026 offer not announced yet. Official 2025 reference (vendor blog): up to 30% off the first year, from Nov 20 to Dec 4, 2025. “Up to” is the ceiling, not the discount on every plan. Official page: GetResponse pricing (affiliate link).
Jasper
2026 offer not announced yet, with no reliable 2025 reference in our check: we will not quote any percentage. We have no Jasper affiliation. Writing at a reasonable price is possible with Rytr. Official page: Jasper pricing. Writesonic and Leadpages: nothing announced either, and no reliable 2025 reference.
Our partner tools: Wisewand, NeuronWriter, Frase, Otomatic and the others
These are the tools for which we earn a commission. We say so, so you can factor it in. On October 22, 2026 we read their home and pricing pages: no Black Friday 2026 offer is announced there. So we quote no percentage for them, and we will update each entry if a campaign shows up.
Wisewand
2026 offer not announced yet. SEO-oriented, multilingual AI writer. See Wisewand (affiliate link). Our Wisewand review covers the tool.
NeuronWriter
Black Friday 2026 offer not announced yet. Do not confuse it with the lifetime deal described below, which is a different mechanism. See NeuronWriter (affiliate link). All plans are in our NeuronWriter pricing page.
Frase
2026 offer not announced yet. Brief and SERP analysis tool. See Frase (affiliate link). See Frase pricing for the plans.
Otomatic
2026 offer not announced yet. Article generation and WordPress publishing. See Otomatic (affiliate link). Our Otomatic review explains how it works.
Skoatch
2026 offer not announced yet. French AI writer. See Skoatch (affiliate link). Our Skoatch review gives the detail.
Rytr
2026 offer not announced yet. Entry-level AI writer. See Rytr (affiliate link). See Rytr pricing.
Koala
2026 offer not announced yet. SEO article writer. See Koala (affiliate link). See our comparison Koala AI vs Surfer SEO.
Copymatic
2026 offer not announced yet. General-purpose AI writer. See Copymatic (affiliate link). Our Copymatic review gives the detail.
Lifetime deal or Black Friday promo: do not mix them up
A Black Friday promotion is a time-limited discount on a subscription. A lifetime deal is a one-time payment that replaces the subscription, often sold on a third-party platform in limited quantity. The two overlap in November, and many pages mix them up to inflate their headlines.
We track lifetime deals in a dedicated article: AI SEO Tool Lifetime Deals 2026. For NeuronWriter, the NeuronWriter pricing 2026 page explains the plans and the lifetime deal. The figures on those two pages date from their publication: they are not Black Friday 2026 promotions.
NordVPN: the clearest calendar of Black Friday 2026
Why a VPN on a writing and SEO tools site? Because writers, consultants and publishers work from cafes, coworking spaces and hotels, on paid SaaS accounts and client dashboards. A VPN encrypts the connection on a public network. Some consultants also use one to view search results from another country: handy for a quick check, but not a reliable measure of rankings. Above all, NordVPN is the only partner on this page to have published its dates and prices in advance. We earn a commission if you use our link.
| Phase | Dates | NordVPN offer (source: official email of October 21, 2026) |
|---|---|---|
| Black Friday | Oct 21 to Nov 24, 2026 | Up to 78% off plus 3 extra months on the 2-year plan, from 3.49 EUR per month |
| Exclusive week | Nov 24 to Dec 1, 2026 | Basic 2-year plan at 2.99 EUR per month, billed as the best price of the year |
| Cyber Monday | Dec 2 to Dec 9, 2026 | Cyber Monday offer, ends December 9 (price not yet published) |
To put the figures in context: in 2025, NordVPN displayed between 74% and 77% off plus 3 extra months. “Up to” refers to the longest plan, two years: the monthly price quoted assumes you pay that period upfront. Between the current offer (from 3.49 EUR) and the exclusive week (2.99 EUR), the gap is 50 cents per month.
On the password side, NordPass is on promotion until December 9 (figures above). A rule we follow: we publish no promo code, only the offers shown on the official page count, and you buy at the public price, with no cashback or reward.
How to judge a deal on a writing or SEO tool
- First year or the whole term? Several 2025 discounts applied to the first year only. The renewal price is the real price.
- Annual billing required? The biggest discounts almost always require an annual commitment. If you are unsure you will use the tool for twelve months, the deal becomes an expense.
- What the deal is made of. A percentage, free prompts, a free month: these are not the same value. Last year Surfer offered prompts, not a discount.
- The quota that matters. For a writing or SEO tool, the number of projects, words or tracked queries matters more than the percentage.
- No deal replaces a trial. Try the free plan or trial before paying for a year.
Watch out: many “best Black Friday SEO deals” articles already show percentages for tools that have announced nothing. They copy last year’s discounts. Here, an offer is only given as current if the vendor has published it, and every past discount carries its year.
Our method and update schedule
Every piece of information on this page comes from an official vendor page read on October 22, 2026, from NordVPN’s official email of October 21, 2026, or from a third-party source explicitly labelled as such. When a brand has announced nothing, we write “2026 offer not announced yet” and give last year’s reference with its date. We invent no figure and run no fake test.
- Around November 18: first review, before most campaigns open.
- November 24: switch to Black Friday week, with the offers actually announced.
- December 2: switch to NordVPN Cyber Monday.
- December 10: end of the period, ended offers flagged.
To pick a tool without waiting for the promotions, our AI SEO tool by level guide is the right starting point.
Frequently asked questions
When is Black Friday 2026?
Black Friday falls on Friday, November 27, 2026. Promotions start earlier: NordVPN opened its own on October 21. For writing and SEO tools, most vendors had announced nothing on October 22, 2026.
When is Cyber Monday 2026?
Monday, November 30, 2026, three days after Black Friday. The offer NordVPN calls “Cyber Monday” runs from December 2 to December 9, 2026.
NordVPN Black Friday 2026: what price?
Until November 24, up to 78% off plus 3 extra months on the 2-year plan, from 3.49 EUR per month. From November 24 to December 1, the Basic 2-year plan at 2.99 EUR per month, billed as the best price of the year. Source: official NordVPN email of October 21, 2026.
Is there a Semrush Black Friday 2026 deal?
Nothing announced as of October 22, 2026. The official references: one month of Pro and one hour of SEO consulting in 2024 (Nov 11 to Dec 3, 2024), 30% off for 12 months in 2023. Neither guarantees the 2026 format.
Surfer, SE Ranking, Jasper: are there any deals?
No 2026 offer was announced as of October 22, 2026. In 2025, SE Ranking offered an extra 20% off annual plans and Surfer 20 free AI Tracker prompts on the Scale plan. Jasper: no reliable reference.
Is a lifetime deal the same as Black Friday?
No. A Black Friday promotion is a temporary discount on a subscription. A lifetime deal is a one-time payment sold in limited quantity. Our article on AI SEO tool lifetime deals covers it.
Do the 2025 discounts apply in 2026?
No. They give an order of magnitude and a likely calendar, nothing more. Brevo offered 40% off the first year from November 19 to December 1, 2025, GetResponse up to 30% off from November 20 to December 4, 2025.
Should you wait for Black Friday to subscribe to an SEO tool?
If your need is not urgent, wait for the week of November 24 to December 1, 2026: that is when vendors often open their offers. If you must produce right away, take a monthly plan with no commitment.
The only Black Friday calendar published so far.
NordVPN: up to 78% off plus 3 extra months on 2 years, until November 24.
