No API key. No account. No setup. Unlike other AI FAQ generators, which make you sign up for OpenAI or Gemini and paste in your own paid API key, AltoFAQ runs the AI on our hosted service, so there is nothing to configure. You generate each FAQ with one click from the post editor, free for the first 25 every month.
AltoFAQ reads your post and writes the questions readers actually ask, each answered from your content. You review and edit them, then AltoFAQ shows them as a tidy, accessible accordion and emits valid FAQPage structured data.
Honest about the SEO: Google retired FAQ rich results in May 2026, so this is not a “rich results” plugin. What FAQ content still does: FAQPage schema is still valid and parsed, AI search engines (AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity) favour clean structured Q&A, featured snippets still benefit, and a clear FAQ is genuinely useful to readers. AltoFAQ is built for that reality.
The free plan covers 25 FAQs per month; AltoFAQ Pro removes the monthly limit (subject to fair use) and can generate automatically on publish.
- No API key or third-party account. The AI runs on our service.
- One click to generate an FAQ from the post editor, then edit or remove any question before it shows.
- Accessible accordion display, built on native HTML so it works with the keyboard and screen readers.
- Valid FAQPage JSON-LD that always matches the questions shown on the page.
- Show it via the
[altofaq]shortcode, or auto-insert it into single posts. - Privacy-friendly: automation is off until you switch it on, and only the post title and content (plus a non-identifying, hashed site ID) are ever sent.
- Pro: unlimited FAQs (subject to fair use) and auto-generate when you publish.
External services
This plugin connects to the Really Useful App Company API to generate FAQs. It is required for the plugin’s core feature.
- What is sent and when: the plugin sends the post title and post content to the API on each of these actions, and nothing else triggers a send:
- when you click “Generate FAQ” in the editor
- when you publish a post with auto-generate on
- Also sent: a non-identifying site ID (a hash of your site URL) for usage counting, and the plugin version, so we can tell which release a report relates to. Neither identifies you. Whether this site’s review prompt was shown, snoozed, dismissed or clicked is also sent, so we can tell whether that prompt is working. It records the site, not the individual user, and says nothing about what you did on WordPress.org afterwards.
- Where it goes: the API (default
https://api.thereallyusefulappcompany.com), which uses Anthropic as an AI subprocessor to generate the text. - Terms / privacy: https://www.thereallyusefulappcompany.com/altofaq/terms , https://www.thereallyusefulappcompany.com/altofaq/privacy , https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy
No data is sent until you click generate or publish with auto-generate enabled.
Screenshots
The AltoFAQ settings screen: set the heading, choose where the accordion appears, and (Pro) turn on auto-generate. No API key or account needed.
Generating an FAQ in the post editor: one click writes the questions and answers, which you can edit or remove before saving.
The FAQ accordion on a published post: a clean, accessible set of questions and answers below the article.