EZ Newswire charges per release: Starter costs $750, Plus $1,250 and Premium $1,500, and Enterprise is priced on request. There is no subscription and no charge for word count, images or logos. What changes from one package to the next is mainly which publishers carry the release, from AP on every plan to Reuters on Premium only. Every EZ Newswire figure here comes from its own pages, checked on October 23, 2026, with the prices re-checked on October 25, 2026.
EZ Newswire is a trading name of Vivid Group Holdings, Inc., which gives New York as its headquarters in its terms of service. It calls itself “the newswire built for AI performance”, and its packages are built around two things: placement on named publishers, and reports on how AI tools cite your release. Presswire, which publishes this guide, is a different kind of service, and we compare the two below.
The packages at a glance
| Starter | Plus | Premium | Enterprise | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price per release | $750 | $1,250 | $1,500 | Custom |
| AP and AP Newsroom | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| EZ Newswire Newsroom | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Local and regional sites | 100+ (EZ100) | 300+ (EZ300) | 300+ (EZ300) | 300+ (EZ300) |
| Fortune and USA Today | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
| Reuters, Yahoo Finance and Business Insider | Not included | Not included | Included | Included |
| Search indexing, keyword and link click tracking | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
| AEO reporting, AI prompt monitoring and AI brand presence | Not included | Not included | Included | Included |
| Summary and downloadable distribution reports | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Editorial review, phone and email support | Included | Included | Included | Included |
Prices are in US dollars, per release. EZ Newswire’s pricing page doesn’t mention sales tax or VAT.
Premium is marked “most popular”. Enterprise is for “higher volumes”, through agency and enterprise packages quoted by EZ’s sales team, and the FAQ says discounts are available for agencies and brands that publish more often.
What each step up buys
Starter, $750. AP and AP Newsroom distribution, EZ Newswire’s own newsroom and EZ100, which the FAQ describes as a network of “small local and regional publishers” covering 100+ sites. Reporting is a summary and a downloadable distribution report.
Plus, $1,250. Adds Fortune and USA Today, replaces EZ100 with the larger EZ300 network of 300+ sites, and adds pickup tracking, search indexing and keyword reports, site visit and link click tracking, and what EZ calls “AI visibility optimization”.
Premium, $1,500. Adds Reuters, Yahoo Finance and Business Insider, plus EZ’s AI reporting: AEO (answer engine optimization) insights, AI prompt monitoring and AI brand presence. It also includes post-publish edits on Reuters and Fortune, expedited processing and priority support. The FAQ says Reuters is “not available on Starter or Plus” and that Reuters distribution “is available only through EZ Newswire”. That exclusivity is EZ’s own claim; we haven’t verified it independently.
The step from Starter to Plus costs $500 and brings the first two national titles, Fortune and USA Today. The step from Plus to Premium costs $250, and it is the only route to Reuters and Yahoo Finance at EZ.
If you want one outlet rather than a bundle, the FAQ says EZ “can enable individual publisher checkout” on request. It doesn’t publish a price for that.
What “published on Reuters” means
This is the question that matters most, and EZ Newswire answers it plainly. Its FAQ says a release “published on Yahoo Finance” is “syndicated to Yahoo Finance’s wire feed and appears on the Yahoo Finance site as distributed content”, and that the same is true of Reuters, Fortune, Business Insider, USA Today and AP. In its words, “placement means syndication to that outlet, not an editorial feature written by that outlet’s staff.”
What you buy, then, is a page. EZ’s How it works page describes “a real page on their domain, with its own URL, that you can send to anyone.” That has real uses: a release on a well-known domain is easy to find, easy to link to and, as EZ argues, a source AI tools can read. What it isn’t is coverage. A Reuters reporter hasn’t chosen to write about your news because your release appears on reuters.com.
The distinction runs across the whole industry, not just EZ. Editorial pickup is a journalist deciding your announcement is a story. Syndication is your release republished as you supplied it. Both have value, and they are priced differently because they are different things.
The AI reporting
EZ Newswire puts AI at the center of its pitch. Its How it works page says AI platforms “read sources and cite them” and that EZ tracks releases across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot and Perplexity. Plus includes “AI visibility optimization”, and Premium adds reports that, in the FAQ’s words, “monitor prompts, citations, and brand presence across major AI platforms.”
Those are measurement features: they show where a release turns up in AI answers. EZ doesn’t claim a release will be cited, and no service can promise that, because what an AI assistant quotes depends on the question it is asked. If tracking AI citations matters to you, at EZ it’s a Premium feature.
Payment, refunds, timing and language
- Per release, no contract. In the FAQ’s words, EZ “is priced per release with no contract or subscription tiers to maintain.”
- Payment. By card through Stripe, with methods that depend on your region. Agency and enterprise accounts can ask for invoicing.
- Refunds. EZ’s terms of service, effective June 22, 2026, say “all fees and charges are non-refundable”, including bundle purchases and unused credits.
- Timing. Submission takes minutes. Once a release “passes verification and meets EZ Newswire’s content guidelines, publication is usually same-day”, unless you schedule it for later.
- Language. Releases must be in English and there is no translation service, although EZ’s editors will help with copy that reads awkwardly after translation.
- Who can use it. You don’t need a US company. The FAQ uses a South Korean company as its example.
- Content rules. Every plan includes editorial review, and EZ’s content guidelines separate what is prohibited outright, such as deceptive claims, from what is restricted, such as health and financial content.
EZ Newswire and Presswire compared
| EZ Newswire | Presswire | |
|---|---|---|
| Price per release | $750 Starter, $1,250 Plus, $1,500 Premium | $250 for one region (the UK, Europe, North America or Asia); $400 worldwide |
| How it reaches people | Placement on named publishers, AP Newsroom and EZ’s local and regional networks | A bespoke media list built for each release, plus publication on presswire.com and our Google News site |
| Named outlets | AP on every plan; Fortune and USA Today from Plus; Reuters, Yahoo Finance and Business Insider on Premium | Optional online syndication to 400+ news sites including AP and USA Today, $290 |
| UK newswire | Not listed | Optional delivery to the Press Association’s newswire through PA Mediapoint, $235 |
| Editorial check | Editorial review on every plan | Every release read by an editor, all former BBC journalists |
| Words and images | No word count, image or logo charges | No word-count fees; images and embedded video included |
| Speed | Usually same day, after verification | Normally sent within one hour of receipt |
| Languages | English only; no translation | Translation available, $380 per language |
| AI | AI visibility optimization on Plus; AI citation and prompt reports on Premium | Releases on presswire.com are open to AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity from the moment they are published |
| Tax | Not stated on the pricing page | Prices exclude VAT. Any VAT is shown at checkout before you pay. |
Where EZ Newswire is stronger. If what you need is your release on reuters.com, Yahoo Finance or Business Insider, EZ Newswire’s Premium package offers it at a published price, and EZ says its Reuters placement isn’t available anywhere else. Its dashboards also report where a release appears in AI answers. For a company that wants named-domain placements and that kind of measurement in one package, it’s a coherent offer, and the price is printed on the page, which PR Newswire and GlobeNewswire still don’t do.
What Presswire does differently. Presswire’s distribution goes direct to newsrooms: each release gets a media list built for that announcement, and one of our editors, all former BBC journalists, reads it before it is sent. One region costs $250 and worldwide $400, between a third and just over half of EZ’s Starter price. If you also want wide online placement, online syndication to 400+ news sites including AP and USA Today is $290, which brings a one-region release to $540. For UK news, PA Mediapoint puts the release on the Press Association’s newswire for $235. See Presswire’s published prices and how press release distribution works at Presswire.
EZ Newswire against other wires’ prices
| Service | Price | What the price covers |
|---|---|---|
| EZ Newswire | $750 to $1,500 per release | Published. No word count, image or logo charges |
| Business Wire | From $475 | Published. 400 words on a US local circuit; longer releases billed in 100-word increments; five-release packages from $2,595 for qualifying customers |
| PR Newswire | No rate card | Reported by Prezly (updated September 21, 2026): $355 for a state circuit to $850 national, for 400 words |
| GlobeNewswire | No rate card | Priced by quote |
| eReleases | From $399 | Published. Its entry package |
| EIN Presswire | $149 for one release | Published. Five for $499 or 15 for $999; not connected with Presswire |
| Presswire | $250 one region; $400 worldwide | Published. No word-count fees |
All prices are in US dollars as each provider states them. For more detail on the largest of these, see Business Wire pricing. Every published rate we could find, ours and other providers’, is in our press release distribution pricing guide.
Which EZ Newswire package fits
- AP placement and local sites, with basic reporting: Starter, $750.
- Fortune and USA Today, with search and click tracking: Plus, $1,250.
- Reuters, Yahoo Finance or Business Insider, or reports on AI citations: Premium, $1,500.
- Many releases a year: ask EZ about Enterprise pricing.
- A release read by an editor and sent to a media list built for it: compare Presswire at $250 per release for one region.
Sources
All read on October 23, 2026; the pricing page re-read on October 25, 2026. EZ Newswire pricing: package prices, plan contents, the comparison grid and the FAQ on syndication, Reuters, EZ100 and EZ300, payment, timing, language, discounts and single-publisher checkout. EZ Newswire, How it works: the publisher page, AI tracking and editorial review. EZ Newswire terms of service, effective June 22, 2026: Vivid Group Holdings, Inc., its New York headquarters and the no-refunds clause. Presswire pricing: Presswire’s prices and VAT line. Business Wire, PR Newswire, GlobeNewswire, eReleases and EIN Presswire: each provider’s own page, or Prezly where stated, checked October 21 to 23, 2026. Prices change; check the provider’s page before you buy.
Frequently asked questions
How much does EZ Newswire cost?
$750 per release for Starter, $1,250 for Plus and $1,500 for Premium, with custom Enterprise pricing for higher volumes, according to its pricing page, re-read on October 25, 2026. There is no subscription and no extra charge for words, images or logos.
Does EZ Newswire get you covered by Reuters?
It places your release on Reuters, as syndicated content, on the Premium and Enterprise plans. EZ’s FAQ says placement “means syndication to that outlet, not an editorial feature written by that outlet’s staff.” A Reuters journalist writing about your news is a separate matter.
Can I get a refund from EZ Newswire?
EZ Newswire’s terms of service say “all fees and charges are non-refundable”, including bundle purchases and unused credits.
How does EZ Newswire compare with Business Wire?
Business Wire publishes a starting price of $475 for 400 words on a US local circuit, with longer releases billed in 100-word increments. EZ Newswire starts at $750 with no word-count charge. They price different things: Business Wire by circuit and length, EZ by the publishers that carry your release.
How much does Presswire cost?
$250 per release for one region (the UK, Europe, North America or Asia) and $400 worldwide, with no word-count fees. Prices exclude VAT. Any VAT is shown at checkout before you pay.