LinkedIn Ghostwriter Cost: What Coaches Actually Pay

A LinkedIn ghostwriter costs a coach about $500 to $3,500 a month from a freelancer and $2,000 to $4,000 from an agency. Top-end programs run $5,000 to $10,000 or more.

The price follows two things: how many posts you get, and how much of the thinking the writer does for you.

Option	What it costs a month	What you usually get	Source, and when we read it
AI tools you run yourself	$20 to $39	Drafts and scheduling. You supply the ideas and the final edit.	Claude, Taplio and Supergrow pricing pages, October 2026
Freelancer, 1 to 2 posts a week	$500 to $1,300	Writing and two rounds of revisions. Little or no strategy.	Foundera pricing guide, May 2026, read October 2026
Freelancer, 3 to 5 posts a week	$1,500 to $3,500	More posts, same scope. Strategy and audience research usually left out.	Same Foundera guide, read October 2026
Agency, middle tier	$2,000 to $4,000	12 to 16 posts, voice matching, topic planning, some tracking.	Windmill Growth pricing guide, February 2026, read October 2026
Agency, with engagement	from $1,299	4 to 12 posts, profile work, replies and comments on your posts.	YellowInk service page, October 2026
Agency, premium	$5,000 to $10,000+	16 to 20 or more posts, full strategy, done-for-you engagement.	Windmill Growth pricing guide, read October 2026

Every row except the AI tools comes from a company that sells ghostwriting. Read them as asking prices, not as what a good job costs.

What makes one ghostwriter cost more than another?

Mostly it is the number of posts and how deep the voice work goes. Foundera prices a freelancer at $500 to $700 a month for one post a week and $2,500 to $3,500 for five. Posting daily instead of three times a week can add 50% to 80% (Windmill Growth guide, read October 2026).

The second driver is the interview. A cheap writer works from your old posts and a template. A better one records a call with you, pulls out the stories, and drafts from your own words. That call is where the voice comes from, and it is the part that costs more.

Then there is scope. The Windmill Growth pricing page lists a Growth plan at $650 a month. It covers likes, comments and analytics, and it does not include writing the posts (pricing page, October 2026). The $3,999 Founder OS plan on the same page adds up to five posts a week, profile work and outreach.

Freelancer or agency: which one fits a coach?

A freelancer usually costs 20% to 40% less than an agency for the same output, and an agency gives you backup if one person disappears (Windmill Growth guide, read October 2026).

If this sounds like you	Look at
You know what to say and want it written well, one or two posts a week.	A freelancer at $500 to $1,300
You post three to five times a week and want the writing handled.	A senior freelancer at $1,500 to $3,500
You want someone to plan topics, interview you, and track which posts bring replies.	An agency at $2,000 to $4,000
You want the comments and outreach run for you as well.	A premium agency at $5,000 and up

Neither is safer. A freelancer can get busy or take a full-time job, and your feed goes quiet with them. An agency can drift into templates. For both, ask to see two months of posts from one current client, not the highlight reel.

Weighing this against a social media manager or an in-house hire? The full comparison of freelancer, agency and in-house shows what each takes off your plate. The social media manager cost guide covers the wider role.

What do the cheap quotes leave out?

They leave out your time, and they leave out the extras.

Foundera lists extras billed on top (pricing guide, read October 2026). Extra revision rounds run $50 to $100 an hour for freelancers. A profile overhaul is $500 to $1,500, and video is $500 to $2,000 each. Foundera's freelancer retainers also leave out competitor research, audience analysis and strategy.

Your hours are the bigger cost. Say you bill $250 an hour and spend two hours a month on the voice call and your edits. That is $500 of your time on top of the retainer. Skip the call to save the two hours, and the posts come out sounding like a stranger wrote them.

Coaches describe the same pattern again and again. When inquiries dip, they post more. When the calendar is full, the content stops. A ghostwriter on a fixed retainer fixes that, because the posts go out whether or not you are busy.

Let's do the math on per-post pricing. Foundera puts it at $300 to $800 a post. At three posts a week, which is about 13 a month, that comes to $3,900 to $10,400. The same three posts a week on a retainer is $1,500 to $2,000, or roughly $115 to $155 a post. The Windmill Growth guide prefers retainers for the same reason.

Can AI write my LinkedIn posts instead?

AI can write the first draft for $20 to $39 a month. What it cannot do is know the story you told on a call last Tuesday, so the draft is only as specific as what you give it.

Plenty of coaches already use these tools, and the reasons are good. Claude Pro is $20 a month (Claude pricing page, October 2026). Taplio starts at $39 a month and bundles scheduling with AI credits for drafts and ideas (Taplio pricing page, October 2026). Supergrow Pro is $39 a month and offers a feature that learns your voice from your past posts, plus AI interviews that turn a conversation into drafts (Supergrow pricing page, October 2026). Any of them will turn a rambling voice note into a clean post in a minute.

Where it stops is the word buyers use. The posts come out generic. They sound like a smart stranger, and a prospect who has read ten of those before breakfast can tell. That is the same complaint coaches have about the agency that burned them: the voice went flat after a few weeks.

So the AI route fits a coach who has plenty to say and likes shaping the final words. You also have to sit down each week and feed the tool real stories and real numbers. Budget $20 to $40 for the tools plus your own time. If you would rather not do that part, a person who interviews you is what the higher fees buy.

What should I ask a ghostwriter before I pay?

Ask how the writer will learn your voice, what is in the retainer, and how you leave. Those answers show you most of what a quote leaves out.

Windmill Growth lists a useful set of questions (guide, read October 2026):

1. How many posts are included, and how many revisions?
2. What strategy work is included, and how is it measured?
3. Is there a long contract, and is there an exit if it is not working?
4. Can I see case studies and talk to a current client?
5. Is there a paid trial?

Add one of your own. Ask them to show how they would draft a post from a call with you, before you sign anything.

What should a coach budget?

If you sell coaching at $3,000 or more, one new client a quarter from your posts can cover most of the options above. Judge any ghostwriter on that, not on likes.

Pick by the job you need done:

1. If you can say it but cannot find the time to write it, budget $500 to $1,500.
2. If you want someone to plan, interview and write, budget $2,000 to $4,000.

After three months, count the booked calls and the replies that led to them. A post with 4,000 impressions and no replies has not done a job.

Where Spritz fits, and where it does not

Spritz is a done-for-you short-form video service for coaches and founders. Written LinkedIn posts are not a listed part of any plan. If a ghostwriter is what you are after, the freelancers and agencies above are the right comparison.

What it does: you record for about 2 to 3 hours a month, and the team turns that into short videos with captions and hooks, plus a monthly look at the numbers. The Engine plan is $2,795 a month for 16 Shorts. Engine+ is $3,995 a month and Partner starts at $5,995 a month. Paying a quarter up front takes 10% off. Those are the prices on the offers page as of October 2026, and every plan is on the Spritz offers page.

It is the wrong choice if you want written posts only, if you do not want to be on camera, or if your offer is not selling yet. The page itself says content will not fix that. It is also the wrong choice if your content budget sits well under $2,795 a month. A good freelancer will serve you better.

Quick answers

Is $1,000 a month enough for a LinkedIn ghostwriter? For one or two posts a week from a freelancer, yes. For interviews, strategy and engagement, usually not.

Does the price include comments and outreach? Often not. Check the plan. A low price can cover engagement only, with no writing at all.

Should I pay per post or by the month? By the month, once you post more than a few times a month. It is cheaper and the scope is clearer.