The six AI detectors most people end up choosing between all advertise accuracy percentages within a point of each other. Not one leads with the thing that decides whether you can safely use it on the document in front of you: a client report under an NDA, a personal essay, an unannounced product page. Every one of them wants the same thing first, which is the whole document pasted into a box and a few seconds of trust that whatever happens on the other end matches the privacy paragraph in the footer.
That paste is the part nobody compares. This post lines up the six on the four terms that separate them, explains why free tiers stop you where they do, shows how fast a 99% accuracy claim falls apart under paraphrasing, and leaves you choosing based on what you are checking rather than on a marketing page.
The Question Vendor Pages Leave Out
Open any AI detector’s homepage and count the numbers it shows you. Accuracy percentages, supported languages, words per scan, dollars per month. Now look for a sentence explaining where your text goes after you click the button. On most of these pages that sentence lives in a privacy policy three clicks away, even though it settles something the accuracy figure never touches: whether a document you were careful with ends up on hardware you do not control.
Free and no-signup are not the same claim as private, and ZeroGPT is the cleanest illustration of that gap. It costs nothing, never asks for an account, and its own FAQ is unusually direct about the rest, stating that submissions get processed to generate a result and then discarded, on infrastructure hosted in Germany under GDPR. That is more specific than most free detectors bother publishing, and the gap between a discard policy and never transmitting the text at all is worth understanding before you decide it does not matter for your document.
A discard policy is a promise about what someone else’s servers do after they receive your words. No transmission is a property you can verify yourself by watching your own network activity. Both are honest positions, but they protect a confidential draft differently, and processing location is the one axis here that a competitor cannot revise without rebuilding the product, while every price and cap below can change with a single blog post.
Six Detectors, Side by Side
Accuracy leads every vendor page because it sounds the most like a product difference. In practice, four things decide whether a detector fits the document in front of you: whether you have to create an account, how much text you get before hitting a wall, what it costs once you outgrow the free tier, and whether your writing leaves the machine you are sitting at. The table below lines up all six on those terms, using each vendor’s own pricing and product pages.
| Detector | Signup required | Free-tier cap | Price | Text leaves your browser |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CapyToolkit Offline & Private AI Text Detector | Never | None below 2,000,000 characters | Free, always | Never |
| GPTZero | Not for a base scan | ~10,000 characters per scan | Around $14.99/mo | Yes |
| Originality.ai | Yes, paid only | No ongoing free plan | $14.95/mo | Yes |
| Copyleaks | Not for a base scan | 25,000 characters per scan | $13.99/mo | Yes |
| QuillBot AI Detector | Effectively, yes | 1,200 words per scan, 6 scans/day | Free tier plus paid Premium | Yes |
| ZeroGPT | No | 15,000 characters per scan | Free | Yes, then discarded |
Five of those rows tell a pricing story. One tells a different story entirely. GPTZero, Originality.ai, Copyleaks, QuillBot, and ZeroGPT all send your text to a server before scoring it, and that stays true across every price point on the list, from ZeroGPT’s free scan to Originality.ai’s subscription. Paying more never changes that, because a server-based detector cannot stop being server-based by adjusting a plan. That last column describes architecture rather than packaging.
Reading the caps in real document terms
Character limits stay abstract until you translate them into pages. Roughly 10,000 characters, where GPTZero’s base scan tops out, is two or three pages of double-spaced text, enough for a student essay and nowhere near a dissertation chapter. QuillBot’s 1,200-word ceiling covers a section rather than a finished article. Copyleaks’ 25,000 anonymous characters swallow most blog posts and strain on a long report, while ZeroGPT’s 15,000 sits between.
Where a cap actually bites depends less on your longest document than on how you work. A long report hits the ceiling on the first paste, but multi-pass editing hits it in a quieter way, since a writer who checks a draft, revises, and checks again puts the same document through detection three or four times before publishing. By contrast, the 2,000,000-character ceiling on the local tool exists because a browser tab has finite memory, not because a billing tier needs a wall to sell you past.
Where the free tiers quietly stop
Copyleaks deserves credit for the most generous anonymous allowance here: 25,000 characters with no login. That free scan withholds the reasoning behind the number. Sentence-by-sentence highlighting, the phrase-level AI Logic breakdown, and saved scan history all sit behind a free account, and sustained use past the cap runs through a plan starting at $13.99 a month. You get the score for nothing; understanding the score usually costs something.
Originality.ai draws the line even earlier by running no ongoing free plan whatsoever. Limited promotional scans surface from time to time through signup offers and its browser extension, but regular use starts at a paid subscription. QuillBot splits the difference, handing free accounts a single rewrite card explaining one flagged section while reserving detailed explainers across the whole text for Premium. Across all three the pattern repeats: the headline percentage is free, and the explanation of it is the product.
What Each Paid Tier Actually Buys You
Comparing a free tool against paid ones is easy to do dishonestly, and the dishonest version treats every subscription as a removed cap with a price tag glued on. These plans buy features that exist, work, and solve problems a browser-only tool does not attempt to solve. Skipping past them would make the rest of this comparison worthless.
Hold onto one distinction here. Paying for capability you will genuinely use is a straightforward trade, while paying to lift a cap you would never have reached is a subscription bought out of vague anxiety. Which of those you are doing depends entirely on the job sitting in front of you right now.
Classroom and institutional features
GPTZero’s strongest feature has nothing to do with scoring finished text. Writing Replay records the keystroke history behind a document and plays back how it came together, and direct integrations wire the tool into Canvas and Google Classroom, which is why the classroom-oriented case for GPTZero over a browser-only detector holds up even when everything else favors local processing. Watching a document get written is a fundamentally different evidence problem from scoring the finished draft, and no client-side tool can reconstruct a history it never observed.
Copyleaks reaches further into institutions than that. Its LMS integrations cover Canvas, D2L, Moodle, Blackboard, Schoology, Edsby, and Sakai, an enterprise API exposes detection to your own systems, coverage spans 30-plus languages, and it publishes per-language accuracy figures instead of one blended number, all of which makes the institutional deployment case for Copyleaks a genuinely separate product category rather than an expensive version of the same thing. An administrator rolling detection out across hundreds of accounts needs provisioning, reporting, and an integration point, and a single-page browser tool has none of those by design.
Bundles versus a single job
Originality.ai sells consolidation more than it sells detection. One subscription covers plagiarism detection, readability scoring, grammar checking, and fact-checking, all drawing against a single credit balance, and for an editorial team screening freelance submissions that consolidation is exactly where the credit-based bundle earns its monthly cost. Juggling four tools with four logins costs a content operation real time, and one dashboard removes that friction in a way a standalone checker never will.
QuillBot builds the same argument around writing rather than editing, wrapping its detector in a paraphraser, a grammar checker, and a humanizer that share one account and one context, which gives a writer already polishing a draft there real continuity. The counterweight is straightforward: if AI likelihood is the only thing you need to know, a bundle means paying monthly for tools you will never open. Some of that ground is covered by single-purpose local pages anyway, since readability scoring and prompt token counting exist as their own free CapyToolkit tools rather than as features of a suite you subscribe to.
Why Caps and Credits Exist at All
Free-tier limits get read as greed far more often than they deserve. A server-based scan carries a real per-request cost that scales directly with how much people use it, and a cap is simply the instrument that keeps that cost predictable. Every vendor in the table above is paying for the same underlying line items every time you click the scan button:
- Inference time on a GPU or CPU, which grows with document length
- Bandwidth in both directions, since your text travels out and a result travels back
- Storage and database capacity for scan history, saved reports, and account state
- The engineering payroll that keeps it available, patched, and fast enough to feel instant
QuillBot shows the shape of this most plainly, capping each free scan at 1,200 words and limiting free accounts to six scans a day, and a single editing session covering a résumé, a cover letter, and a couple of social posts can burn through that six-scan daily allowance before lunch. Six sounds generous in the abstract. It stops sounding generous the moment you recheck anything.
Originality.ai’s credit system is the cleanest illustration, because the arithmetic is fully exposed. One credit covers 100 words of AI detection on its own, and a combined AI plus plagiarism scan costs two credits per 100 words, so a 2,000-word post costs 20 credits checked one way and 40 checked the other. Subscription credits also expire at the end of each billing cycle rather than rolling forward. When the computation happens on your own device, none of those line items exist, and nothing is left for a cap to ration, which is why every tool in this catalog of CapyToolkit’s browser-based utilities that process everything locally stays free without a plan behind it.
How Local Scoring Works Without a Server
“Runs in your browser” gets used as a slogan often enough that it stops meaning anything, so it is worth describing exactly what executes. Click Check for AI, and four scoring functions run instantly over the text sitting in the textarea. No request goes out. Nothing is queued for upload. The words never leave the tab they were pasted into.
CapyToolkit’s detector splits that work across two separate modes. In Basic mode, four explainable statistical signals score whatever text is in the box the moment you click; in Advanced mode, the default, a trained classifier scores it alone once your text passes 100 words. Each mode answers a slightly different question, and running both on the same draft tells you more than either number on its own.
The four instant signals
Sentence-length burstiness carries the most weight of the four, at 40% of the Basic score, and it measures the standard deviation of words per sentence across your document. Human writing mixes short punchy sentences with long winding ones; model output trends toward a narrower band. Transition density counts formal connectors like “furthermore,” “in conclusion,” and “it is important to note” against total length, then scores that rate against a human baseline of roughly one per hundred words and an AI-typical rate of about four. Word predictability checks your two-word phrases against a table of the 15,000 most common English word pairs, and vocabulary variety tracks lexical diversity across a moving 50-word window. Vocabulary variety is measured across that same kind of window but sits outside the weighted arithmetic, so it reports as its own reason instead of moving the number.1
All four are plain JavaScript arithmetic with no model behind them, which is why the score appears before you finish rereading what you pasted. When one crosses the threshold, it surfaces below your score as a named reason, and clicking a highlightable one marks the exact sentences behind it, so you can see which specific signal pushed a draft toward AI-typical instead of arguing with a bare number. Simple statistics earn their keep there, since every input behind the number stays inspectable.
The classifier in Advanced mode
The second layer is a RoBERTa-based classifier trained to separate human from machine text, quantized to int8 and weighing in around 120MB, which downloads once when your text reaches 100 words and then runs through WebAssembly on your own processor.2 Your browser caches the model afterward, so later visits skip the network entirely, and because a service worker caches the page and its scripts too, scoring keeps working with no connection at all once you have loaded the page a single time. No account gates any of that. Advanced mode isn’t a paid tier hiding behind Basic, so both modes work in full on your first visit, classifier and signals alike, with no email address and no usage cap.
Advanced mode does not blend the classifier with the signal ensemble; the headline is the classifier’s own number, and Basic is where the four signals get their say. On long documents the model reads packed sections of at most 510 tokens each, and the headline averages those section scores with a word-weighted mean. The classifier reports 99.28% AUROC on the RAID benchmark, while GLTR, the closest published analogue to a rank-and-frequency signal ensemble, scores 62.6% accuracy on RAID itself once every detector’s threshold is tuned to a 5% false positive rate, and the trained model is the stronger of the two methods under that benchmark.23 Worth stating plainly rather than burying: AUROC and accuracy are different metrics, and no published study has scored both methods head-to-head under identical conditions.
Reading Accuracy Claims Without Getting Fooled
Nearly every vendor on this list advertises a figure somewhere near 99%. When six competitors converge on the same number, that number has stopped carrying comparative information and started functioning as table stakes, which means picking between them on accuracy alone is picking between identical claims measured under conditions nobody published.
Three questions turn a headline percentage back into something you can reason about. Measured on which benchmark? Against output from which generators? And with or without adversarial paraphrasing applied first? A detector tested only against GPT-family output with no evasion attempts is answering a much easier question than one tested across eleven generators and eleven attack types.
What the benchmarks actually show
RAID is the largest published benchmark of machine-generated text. Its corpus spans more than 6 million generations across 11 generative models, 8 domains, 11 adversarial attacks, and 4 decoding strategies, and the authors benchmarked 12 detectors against it. Reading the full RAID evaluation of machine-generated text detectors is uncomfortable if you have been treating vendor numbers as settled, because its central finding is that detectors are far more fragile against unfamiliar models and adversarial phrasing than their own published figures suggest.
Independent evaluations outside the benchmark community reach the same place by a different route. A widely cited academic assessment of 14 commercial and open-source detection tools found that every one of them scored below 80% accuracy, and only 5 cleared 70%, with performance dropping consistently once text had been paraphrased.4 Those figures sit well below the marketing consensus, and researchers with nothing to sell produced them.
How fast a 99% claim collapses
One documented example makes that fragility concrete. Against unmodified machine text, RAID measured Originality at 85.0% accuracy, a genuinely strong result that collapsed to 9.3% once the same passages were rewritten with homoglyphs, meaning Cyrillic characters that render identically to their Latin counterparts.3 A detector catching six of every seven samples before the attack caught fewer than one in ten after it, with nothing changed that a human reader would notice.
Nothing about that failure is specific to Originality, and the local tool above is no more immune than the commercial ones. The same benchmark shows that no single technique breaks every detector the same way: paraphrasing actually raised Originality’s accuracy while cutting GLTR’s by more than 15 points, and the character-level tricks did the widest damage. Treat any headline figure as a claim about clean, unmodified prose, and expect a different number once someone has edited, reworded, or obfuscated what you are checking.
The False Positive Problem Every Detector Shares
The failure mode that actually damages people has nothing to do with a detector missing AI text. Real harm starts when a detector flags someone who wrote every word themselves, and that flag reaches a teacher or a hiring manager who treats a percentage as a finding. Missed detections cost a vendor a little credibility. False positives cost individual writers grades, contracts, and reputations, an asymmetry that never shows up in a marketing comparison.
The most important evidence here comes from a Stanford-affiliated study that ran 91 TOEFL essays written by non-native English speakers through seven widely used detectors. As documented in the study on detector bias against non-native English writers, those detectors misclassified the non-native essays as AI-generated at an average rate of 61.3%, while essays written by native speakers were almost never misflagged. Those detectors labeled more than half of a group of real human writers as machines, and the label tracked who they were rather than what they did.5
Mechanically, this is not a bug in any single vendor’s model. Simpler and more standard sentence structures score as statistically predictable, and predictability is precisely what these signals hunt for, so writing that leans on conventional phrasing scores higher regardless of who or what produced it. Several categories of entirely human writing trip detectors for the same underlying reason:
- Academic prose, which rewards formal connectors and consistent sentence construction
- Technical documentation, where uniform phrasing is a style requirement rather than an accident
- Heavily edited drafts, since revision tends to smooth out the variation that reads as human
- Second-language writing, for the reasons the Stanford results document directly
- Anything following a rigid template, including reports, disclosures, and structured summaries
OpenAI’s own retreat is the strongest institutional admission available on this point. The company shut down its AI Classifier on July 20, 2023, citing the tool’s low rate of accuracy, doing so as the organization with the deepest knowledge of how that text gets generated.6 If the model’s own author could not make detection reliable enough to keep shipping, no vendor’s 99% deserves to be read as a guarantee about your specific paragraph.
All of this narrows what a score is actually good for. A percentage is directional information about patterns in a piece of text, never a forensic record of authorship, and presenting it as proof of anything misuses the number regardless of which tool produced it. Explainability matters most precisely here, because a tool that names which signal fired lets you look at the sentences responsible and judge them yourself, while a bare percentage leaves you nothing to examine.
GPTZero vs CapyToolkit’s Offline Detector
GPTZero built its reputation in classrooms, and for schools screening student writing at scale, that reputation is earned. Its free tier asks nothing of you for a first scan, but the moment you need more than a single short document checked, the arithmetic changes fast. A base scan tops out around 10,000 characters, roughly two or three pages of double-spaced text, and pushing past that ceiling for regular use eventually means a paid plan running close to fifteen dollars a month.7 None of that is unreasonable for GPTZero’s core market. It just isn’t free the way an unlimited, browser-only tool is, and every scan it runs, paid or not, still happens on a server you never see, which is the distinction this comparison actually turns on.
GPTZero vs this tool, at a glance
| GPTZero | This tool | |
|---|---|---|
| Free scan cap | ~10,000 characters | 2,000,000 characters |
| Signup for extended use | Required | Never required |
| Paid plan | Around $14.99/mo | Free, no paywall |
| Text leaves your browser | Yes, every scan | Never |
How GPTZero’s classroom-first model works
GPTZero pairs its detection model with features built specifically for classrooms: Writing Replay records the keystroke history behind a document, and direct integrations connect the tool to Canvas and Google Classroom.8 Those features solve a real problem this tool doesn’t attempt to solve, watching how a document came together over time rather than only scoring the finished text once it’s done.
The free-tier cap
That depth has a ceiling on the free tier, though. A single scan caps at roughly 10,000 characters, somewhere around two or three pages of double-spaced text, before GPTZero pushes you toward an account or a paid plan.8 Sustained use beyond that runs through a paid tier priced around fifteen dollars a month, according to independent pricing reviews cross-referenced against GPTZero’s own site.9 For a teacher screening thirty essays a week, or anyone reviewing a long report across multiple sittings, that ceiling arrives fast, well before the writing itself is finished. GPTZero also publishes its own results against RAID, a large-scale adversarial benchmark that stress-tests detectors across millions of generated samples, the same evaluation family this tool’s own Advanced classifier reports a score against.10
What running entirely in your browser changes
Every one of those GPTZero scans, free or paid, sends your text to a server before a score comes back. That’s true even for the single anonymous scan that doesn’t ask for an account first; the text still has to leave your device to be processed somewhere else, travel back with a result, and presumably get discarded afterward, though that discarding happens on infrastructure you have no direct visibility into.
No server, no ceiling
CapyToolkit’s Offline & Private AI Text Detector skips that step completely. The four Basic signals compute in JavaScript the moment you click Check for AI, and the Advanced classifier runs through WebAssembly after a one-time download, so nothing about scoring a document ever depends on a network request once that download finishes. There’s also no 10,000-character ceiling to manage here. Whether you’re checking if an essay sounds AI-written before you submit it or reviewing something far longer, the score updates the same way regardless of length, up to a 2,000,000-character limit that exists for the browser’s own sake, not a billing tier’s.
Where GPTZero remains the stronger choice
None of this makes GPTZero worse at what it’s actually built for. If you’re an educator who needs Writing Replay’s keystroke history, or an institution that wants AI detection wired directly into Canvas or Google Classroom, GPTZero’s classroom integrations do something no browser-only tool attempts to replicate.7 Those are genuine, distinct features built for a specific audience, not marketing language stretched thin.
Weighing classroom features against private, unlimited checking
What this tool is built for sits in a narrower, more private lane: checking a piece of text without an account, a monthly cap, or your writing leaving your device at any point in the process. If your use case matches that description, the trade-off runs clearly in this tool’s favor. If it doesn’t, and classroom integration or writing-history tracking genuinely matters to your workflow, GPTZero’s paid plan buys real, working features worth the monthly cost.
That distinction matters most for people who already know which category they fall into. A teacher managing a full course load has a real, recurring need for classroom integration that a single private check doesn’t replicate, while someone checking a personal document once has little use for features built around institutional deployment. One caveat applies to both tools equally: published research on this category of detector has found that non-native English writers are disproportionately likely to be misflagged, since simpler sentence structures read as statistically predictable regardless of which detector runs the check.11
When to use this comparison
Reach for this comparison when you’re deciding between GPTZero and a tool that never asks for an account, never caps how much text you can check, and never sends anything to a server at all. That’s the right call if you’re checking your own writing privately, reviewing documents for a client under an NDA, or you simply don’t want to create another account for something you might use once. If you need Writing Replay’s keystroke history or a classroom LMS integration specifically, GPTZero’s paid plan is still the better fit for that exact job.
Example
- Checking a piece of writing before it’s submitted anywhere. Checks a 118-word paragraph about renewable energy policy in the Offline & Private AI Text Detector, written in a formal, hedge-heavy style with transition phrases like “it is important to note” and “in conclusion,” the kind of pattern that tends to push a score toward AI-typical.
Common questions about GPTZero and CapyToolkit
Is GPTZero’s free scan actually free, or does it require an account? A single base scan doesn’t require an account, but it caps out around 10,000 characters. Extending past that limit, saving results, or using features like Writing Replay pushes you toward signing up and eventually a paid plan.
Why does GPTZero cap free scans, when this tool doesn’t? GPTZero runs every scan on its own servers, and each request has a real infrastructure cost that scales with usage, which is exactly what a free-tier cap exists to control. This tool has no equivalent cost to manage, because the computation happens on your own device instead of GPTZero’s.
Is GPTZero’s claimed accuracy higher than this tool’s? GPTZero reports its own accuracy figures from internal and partner testing. This tool’s Advanced classifier reports 99.28% AUROC on the independent RAID benchmark, a different metric measured under different conditions, so the two numbers aren’t directly comparable. Neither claim should be read as a guarantee on your specific text.
Should I use GPTZero instead of this tool for a classroom? If you specifically need Writing Replay’s keystroke history or direct Canvas or Google Classroom integration, GPTZero’s paid plan offers real features this tool doesn’t build for. If you just need to check writing privately without an account or a per-scan limit, this tool covers that case at no cost.
Does this tool work as well as GPTZero for a classroom setting? Not for classroom-specific workflows. CapyToolkit offers no LMS integration, no Writing Replay, and no institutional dashboard, since it’s built for one person checking one piece of text privately. For an individual scan outside a classroom context, it covers the same core detection job GPTZero does, without the account or the cap.
Can I use this tool alongside GPTZero rather than instead of it? Yes, nothing stops you from checking a document with both. Some people run a private, unlimited check here first, then use GPTZero separately when they specifically need its classroom features or a Writing Replay report for someone else to review.
Copyleaks vs CapyToolkit’s Offline Detector
Copyleaks doesn’t hide its AI detector behind a signup wall. Paste text and scan up to 25,000 characters without logging in at all, a genuinely generous cap for a server-based tool.12 The catch shows up once you need more: sentence-by-sentence highlights and the deeper AI Logic breakdown are locked behind a free account, and sustained use beyond the base scan runs through a paid plan starting at $13.99 a month.13 None of that makes Copyleaks a bait-and-switch. It’s a real, capable detector with real limits, and this comparison is about exactly where those limits sit.
Copyleaks vs this tool, at a glance
| Copyleaks | This tool | |
|---|---|---|
| Anonymous scan cap | 25,000 characters | 2,000,000 characters |
| Sentence-level detail | Requires free account | Free, no account |
| Paid plan | $13.99/mo (Personal) | Free, no paywall |
| Text leaves your browser | Yes, every scan | Never |
How Copyleaks’ free scan actually works
A 25,000-character scan without an account is a real, useful allowance, more generous than most competitors offer anonymously. Copyleaks reports over 99% accuracy on English text in its own published benchmarks, backed by detection infrastructure spanning 30-plus languages.12 That combination, a wide free allowance plus published accuracy figures, is genuinely rare among competitors that gate even a basic scan behind signup.
What the free scan leaves out
What that free scan doesn’t include is the detail behind the number. Sentence-by-sentence highlighting, the phrase-level “AI Logic” explanation, and saved scan history all sit behind a free account signup, and pushing past the character cap or wanting deeper insight regularly means a paid plan.13 The base score is free and anonymous; understanding why you got that score generally isn’t.
Copyleaks also publishes per-language accuracy figures rather than a single blended number, reporting separate human and AI detection rates for English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish among others. That transparency is genuinely useful for judging whether the tool fits a specific use case, since accuracy on English text doesn’t necessarily predict accuracy on a French or German document. Vendor-published accuracy figures near 99% are worth reading against a large-scale, adversarial benchmark: an evaluation covering millions of AI-generated samples across many models found that current detectors, including well-known commercial ones, are more easily fooled by unfamiliar generative models and adversarial phrasing than their own marketing numbers suggest.10
What running entirely in your browser changes
CapyToolkit’s Offline & Private AI Text Detector skips the character cap entirely, up to 2,000,000 characters per check, and every signal, from Basic scoring to the Advanced classifier, computes locally rather than on a Copyleaks server. There’s no distinction between a quick anonymous look and a deeper explained result, because the full breakdown, including which sentences and sections drove your score, is available from the first paste, with no account needed to unlock it.
Full detail from the first paste
Scanning a document for AI writing without creating an account is the default here, not a limited preview of something bigger behind a signup form. Every reason behind your score, and every highlighted sentence, is visible immediately, free, and permanent. There’s no separate, more detailed tier waiting behind a login screen, because the detailed version is simply the only version that exists.
Highlighting works the same way regardless of how much of a document you check, and it isn’t gated behind a separate scan or a slower processing tier. Paste a full report, and the same reasons and sentence-level highlights that would normally sit behind a Copyleaks account appear without a server round trip, computed on your own machine rather than on someone else’s.
Where Copyleaks remains the stronger choice
Copyleaks is built for institutions, not just individuals. Its LMS integrations cover Canvas, D2L, Moodle, Blackboard, Schoology, Edsby, and Sakai, and its enterprise API and 30-plus language support make it a genuine fit for organizations that need AI detection wired into an existing platform at scale. That kind of platform-level deployment is a genuinely different product category from a single-page browser tool, built around administrators managing detection across hundreds or thousands of accounts at once.
Weighing institutional reach against a private, single-page tool
None of that infrastructure has an equivalent here. This tool is built for one person checking one piece of text, not a school district rolling out detection across every classroom. If you need institutional deployment, multilingual coverage at scale, or an API to integrate detection into your own product, Copyleaks’ paid plans buy real capability this tool was never designed to offer.
The Google Docs add-on and browser extension are worth naming specifically, since they let a Copyleaks subscriber check writing as they go, directly inside the tool they’re already using, rather than copying text out to a separate detector. That kind of embedded workflow is genuinely useful for someone editing inside Docs all day, and it’s not something a standalone browser tool like this one replicates. Choosing between the two comes down to whether that institutional reach matters for your situation, or whether a single, private, account-free check is all the job actually calls for.
One caveat applies to any detector you choose, including this one: published research on this category of tool has found that non-native English writers are disproportionately likely to be misflagged, since simpler sentence structures read as statistically predictable regardless of which detector runs the check.11 A separate large-scale academic study evaluating 14 commercial and open-source detection tools found that accuracy varied widely, with only a handful scoring above 70%, and that accuracy consistently worsened once text had been paraphrased.14
When to use this comparison
Copyleaks’ anonymous 25,000-character scan already covers a lot of casual use, so this comparison matters most once you’d otherwise need an account for deeper insight, a scan beyond that cap, or you’d rather nothing left your browser at all. Institutions needing LMS integration or multilingual detection at scale should stay with Copyleaks; an individual checking a single document with full detail from the first paste has less reason to.
Example
- Reviewing a report for a client under confidentiality terms. Checks a 110-word excerpt from a quarterly compliance report in the Offline & Private AI Text Detector, the flat, procedural tone typical of internal audit writeups that a confidentiality-conscious reviewer might want checked before it circulates.
Common questions about Copyleaks and CapyToolkit
Does Copyleaks really not require an account for a free scan? Correct, up to 25,000 characters per scan without logging in, according to Copyleaks’ own AI detector page. Beyond that cap, or for sentence-level highlights and saved history, an account and eventually a paid plan become necessary.
What do I lose by not creating a Copyleaks account? The anonymous scan gives you a headline percentage, but sentence-by-sentence highlighting, the phrase-level AI Logic breakdown, and saved scan history all require signing up. This tool shows that same level of detail, including highlighted sentences and named reasons, without any account at all.
Is Copyleaks’ 99% accuracy claim independently verified? Copyleaks publishes its own accuracy figures by language on its detector page. As with any detector’s self-reported number, including this tool’s own classifier benchmark, treat it as a general signal about typical performance rather than a guarantee for any single piece of text.
Should I use Copyleaks instead of this tool for a school or organization? If you need LMS integration with Canvas, Moodle, or similar platforms, multilingual detection across 30-plus languages, or an API for your own systems, Copyleaks’ institutional features cover ground this tool doesn’t attempt. For checking your own writing privately, this tool’s free, account-free detail is the simpler fit.
Does this tool support other languages the way Copyleaks does? This tool’s Basic signals and Advanced classifier are tuned for English text; CapyToolkit doesn’t publish separate accuracy figures for other languages the way Copyleaks does across its 30-plus supported languages. For non-English detection at scale, Copyleaks’ published multilingual accuracy data is the more relevant reference.
Why does Copyleaks require an account for sentence-level highlights, if this tool doesn’t? That extra detail costs Copyleaks additional server processing per scan, which is a reasonable place to draw a free-versus-account line for a server-based tool. This tool has no equivalent processing cost to manage, since the highlighting computes on your own device, and even the Advanced headline only waits on a one-time model download rather than a per-scan bill.
Originality.ai vs CapyToolkit’s Offline Detector
Originality.ai doesn’t bother with a free tier at all. Every plan starts at payment, and the cheapest option runs $14.95 a month for 2,000 credits, where a single credit covers 100 words of AI detection alone.15 Check AI and plagiarism together in the same scan and that same credit only stretches half as far, since a combined check costs two credits per 100 words instead of one. For a content team running dozens of drafts a month, that’s a real, ongoing line item, not a one-time cost, and it never stops being one for as long as you keep scanning. Compare that to a tool with no credits, no expiration date, and no subscription at all, and the calculation gets a lot simpler.
Content teams reach for a detector like this partly because Google’s own guidance states that content produced primarily to manipulate search rankings violates its spam policies regardless of whether AI was involved, which makes verifying a freelancer’s submission a genuine editorial concern, not just a compliance exercise.16
Originality.ai vs this tool, at a glance
| Originality.ai | This tool | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | None, paid plan required | Always free |
| Pricing model | $0.01/credit, 100 words per credit | No credits, ever |
| Combined AI + plagiarism scan | Doubles the credit cost | No extra cost |
| Rechecking a draft after edits | Draws down credits again | Free, unlimited |
How Originality.ai’s credit system works
Originality.ai is built for content operations, not casual checks. Every account runs on a credit balance that renews monthly and expires if unused, and every scan draws down against that balance whether the result comes back Likely Human or Likely AI.15 Even trying the tool at all means picking a paid plan first; there’s no meaningful way to check a single paragraph without committing to a subscription first.
How the credit math adds up
The Pro plan’s 2,000 monthly credits sound generous until you do the math on longer content. A single 2,000-word blog post checked for AI alone costs 20 credits; the same post checked for AI and plagiarism together costs 40. Scale that across a real publishing calendar, and the credit balance becomes something you have to actively manage, not a limit you’ll rarely notice. None of that is hidden or deceptive pricing, it’s simply the cost structure of running detection on someone else’s servers instead of your own device.
Credits also don’t roll over indefinitely. Subscription credits expire at the end of each billing cycle and renew fresh the next month, so unused capacity from a slow month doesn’t carry forward to cover a busier one later. Running out mid-month means either waiting for the renewal or buying additional credits separately, which come with their own two-year expiration window rather than the subscription’s monthly reset.
One independent study cited on Wikipedia’s AI content detection overview found Originality.ai correctly identified GPT-4 output at a mean accuracy of 91.3% before adversarial paraphrasing, a figure that dropped to 27.8% once the same text was run through a paraphrasing tool designed to evade detection.14 That gap matters regardless of which detector you’re paying for, including this one, and is worth weighing against any vendor’s own headline accuracy claim.
What running entirely in your browser changes
This tool has no credit balance to track, because there’s no server-side scan consuming a resource in the first place. The four Basic signals run instantly in JavaScript, and the Advanced classifier, once downloaded, scores everything locally through WebAssembly. Whether you’re checking one paragraph or reviewing text several times over the course of an edit, nothing about the cost changes, because there isn’t one.
No cost, no matter how many times you check
That also means running an AI check on a long article without paying per word is simply how this tool works by default, not a workaround. A 3,000-word article costs the same nothing as a 300-word paragraph, and rechecking the same draft five times after edits costs the same nothing a fifth time as it did the first.
That difference compounds across a real editing workflow. A writer who checks a draft, revises based on the score, and checks again might run the same document through detection three or four times before publishing. On a credit system, each of those passes has a cost. Here, the fourth check costs exactly as much as the first, which is to say nothing at all.
Where Originality.ai remains the stronger choice
Originality.ai’s real strength is the bundle, not just the AI detector on its own. A single subscription includes plagiarism detection, a readability checker, a grammar checker, and a fact-checking tool, all scored against the same credit balance in one place. For a content team that needs plagiarism and AI screening in one workflow, that consolidation genuinely saves time compared to juggling separate tools.
When the bundle is worth the credits
This tool doesn’t try to compete on that ground. It checks one thing, AI likelihood, and does it without an account or a credit system attached. If your workflow already needs plagiarism checking alongside AI detection, Originality.ai’s bundle is worth its monthly cost. That trade-off is worth naming plainly rather than glossing over, since neither tool is objectively better, they’re built for different budgets and different workflows.
One caveat applies to both: published research on this category of detector has found that non-native English writers are disproportionately likely to be misflagged, since simpler sentence structures read as statistically predictable regardless of which detector runs the check.11 A large-scale adversarial benchmark of commercial and open-source detectors has separately found that headline accuracy claims near 99% rarely hold up once text is paraphrased or run through an unfamiliar generative model, a pattern that applies across the category rather than to any single vendor.10
When to use this comparison
This comparison matters most if you’re deciding whether to pay Originality.ai’s credit-based pricing for something you could check for free. If your workflow already depends on its bundled plagiarism checker, grammar checker, and fact-checker in one subscription, that bundle earns its cost. If AI detection is the only thing you actually need, and you’d rather not track a monthly credit balance, this tool covers that exact case at no charge, with no cap on how many times you recheck the same draft.
Example
- Rechecking a long article after a round of edits. Checks a 128-word paragraph about editorial AI-detection workflows in the Offline & Private AI Text Detector, the kind of measured, source-citing copy a content team might draft and then recheck several times across a revision cycle.
Common questions about Originality.ai and CapyToolkit
Can I try Originality.ai before paying? Originality.ai doesn’t run an ongoing free tier. A limited number of free credits are sometimes available through a signup promotion or browser extension install, but regular use requires picking a paid plan starting at $14.95 a month.
How much does checking a single blog post actually cost on Originality.ai? At the Pro plan’s rate, a 2,000-word post checked for AI detection alone costs about 20 credits. Checking the same post for AI and plagiarism together costs about 40 credits, since a combined scan draws two credits per 100 words instead of one.
Is Originality.ai more accurate than this tool? Originality.ai reports its own accuracy figures from internal testing. This tool’s Advanced classifier reports 99.28% AUROC on the independent RAID benchmark, a different metric under different conditions, so the two aren’t directly comparable. Treat any detector’s accuracy claim, including this one’s, as a general signal rather than a guarantee.
Why would I pick Originality.ai over a free tool like this one? If your workflow already needs plagiarism detection, grammar checking, and fact-checking bundled with AI detection in one subscription, Originality.ai consolidates all of that into a single credit balance. If AI detection alone is all you need, that bundle is paying for tools you may not use.
Does this tool include plagiarism checking like Originality.ai does? No, CapyToolkit doesn’t bundle plagiarism detection into this tool, since it’s built specifically to score AI likelihood rather than duplicate a separate checker. If your workflow needs both in one subscription, Originality.ai’s bundle covers that combination directly.
What happens if I check the same document on Originality.ai multiple times? Each check draws down your credit balance again, so rechecking a draft five times after five rounds of edits costs five times the credits of a single scan. This tool has no equivalent cost, so rechecking a document as many times as you want during editing never adds up to anything.
QuillBot AI Detector vs CapyToolkit’s Offline Detector
Quillbot folds its AI detector into a broader account-based product, not a standalone free tool. The free tier caps each scan at 1,200 words and limits you to six scans a day, and Quillbot’s own comparison table shows a “Create account” prompt attached to that free tier, not a fully anonymous option.17 Premium removes both limits, but only as part of a paid Quillbot subscription that also unlocks its paraphraser, grammar checker, and other writing tools.18 None of that is unreasonable for a company selling a writing suite. It just means the detector alone isn’t really a standalone free product, it’s a feature of one.
QuillBot AI Detector vs this tool, at a glance
| QuillBot AI Detector | This tool | |
|---|---|---|
| Free scan cap | 1,200 words | No word cap |
| Daily scan limit | 6 scans/day | Unlimited |
| Full explainers | Premium only | Every scan, free |
| Text leaves your browser | Yes, every scan | Never |
How Quillbot’s free tier actually works
Quillbot’s AI Detector recommends at least 80 words for an accurate read and caps free scans at 1,200 words, with a daily limit of six scans before you’d need to wait or upgrade.17 That’s enough for a paragraph or a short section, but not a full essay or article in one pass.
The free tier also limits how much explanation you get back. Free accounts receive one rewrite card explaining a flagged section; Premium accounts get detailed explainers across the entire text.18 The headline percentage is available either way, but understanding exactly why a longer document scored the way it did is a Premium feature.
The daily scan limit
Hitting the daily cap doesn’t lock you out of Quillbot entirely, but it does mean waiting until the count resets or switching to a different tool for the rest of the day. For someone checking several short pieces of correspondence or social posts in a single sitting, six scans disappears faster than it sounds. A single editing session covering a résumé, a cover letter, and a couple of social posts can burn through that daily allowance before lunch. Quillbot cites a 99% detection rate from independent RAID benchmark testing for its detector, the same benchmark family this tool’s own Advanced classifier reports a score against.10
What running entirely in your browser changes
This tool has no 1,200-word ceiling and no daily scan count to track. Paste a full document once, or run it through five separate times after five rounds of edits, and nothing about the process changes or slows down, because every score computes locally instead of drawing against a daily allowance.
Testing whether a paragraph reads like it was written by AI works the same whether it’s your first check of the day or your fiftieth. Every flagged reason comes with its own explanation and highlighted sentences from the very first scan, not just after a Premium upgrade, and none of that depth is held back behind an account you’d otherwise need to create.
That also removes any incentive to trim a document down just to fit inside a scan limit. A 3,000-word report doesn’t need to be split into three separate 1,000-word chunks and checked individually, each losing whatever document-level context the full text would have provided to the signals measuring sentence rhythm and vocabulary variety across the whole piece.
Where Quillbot remains the stronger choice
Quillbot’s real advantage is the bundle sitting around its detector. The same account that runs an AI check also gives you a paraphraser, a grammar checker, and an AI humanizer, all built to work together across an actual writing and editing workflow. If you’re already inside Quillbot rewriting and polishing a draft, checking it for AI likelihood in the same place is a genuine convenience.
Where the bundle earns its limits
That same account also carries context across tools: a paragraph rewritten with Quillbot’s paraphraser can be checked immediately with the same login, without exporting text between separate apps. For someone whose entire editing process already lives inside Quillbot, that continuity is worth something real, even if it comes wrapped in the free tier’s word and scan limits. Weigh that convenience against how often you actually hit the cap before deciding whether the trade-off works in your favor.
What this tool trades away in exchange
This tool doesn’t try to be a writing suite, and it makes no attempt to replicate a paraphraser, a grammar checker, or a humanizer alongside its one job of scoring text for AI-typical patterns. It does that one job without a daily cap or a word ceiling attached to it.
If your workflow lives inside Quillbot already, the detector built into it costs you nothing extra to use. If detection is the only piece you need, the caps attached to that one feature stop making sense, and paying for a full writing suite just to reach unlimited detection is a poor trade for someone who only ever wanted the one feature. One caveat applies to both tools: published research on this category of detector has found that non-native English writers are disproportionately likely to be misflagged, since simpler sentence structures read as statistically predictable regardless of which detector runs the check.11 A separate academic evaluation of 14 commercial and open-source detection tools found accuracy varying widely between them, with performance consistently dropping once text had been paraphrased.14
When to use this comparison
Reach for this comparison if Quillbot’s 1,200-word cap or six-scans-a-day limit is getting in the way of checking a longer document or rechecking one repeatedly during editing. If you’re already using Quillbot’s paraphraser or grammar checker as part of your writing process, its built-in detector is a reasonable default. If AI detection is the only thing you need, this tool removes both limits at no cost.
Example
- Rechecking a paragraph after paraphrasing it. Checks a 107-word paragraph about workplace time management in the Offline & Private AI Text Detector, an evenly paced explainer style that reads similarly however many times it gets rechecked during editing.
Common questions about QuillBot AI Detector and CapyToolkit
Does Quillbot’s AI Detector really require an account? Quillbot’s own free-versus-premium comparison shows a “Create account” prompt attached to the free tier’s stated limits. Some casual use may work without one, but the documented free-tier numbers, 1,200 words and six scans a day, are tied to an account rather than fully anonymous use.
What happens if my text is longer than 1,200 words on Quillbot? You’d need to either split the text into shorter sections and scan each separately, or upgrade to Premium, which removes the word limit entirely. This tool has no equivalent split needed, up to 2,000,000 characters in a single check.
How many free scans do I get per day on Quillbot? Up to six scans a day on the free tier, according to Quillbot’s own product page. This tool has no daily limit at all, so rechecking the same draft repeatedly during an editing session never runs into a wall.
Is Quillbot’s AI detector accurate? Quillbot cites a 99% detection rate from independent RAID benchmark testing. This tool’s Advanced classifier also reports a RAID-family result, 99.28% AUROC, though the two figures use different metrics and testing conditions, so treat both as general signals rather than directly comparable numbers.
Does this tool include a paraphraser or grammar checker like Quillbot does? No, CapyToolkit keeps this tool focused on one job, scoring text for AI-typical patterns, rather than bundling a paraphraser or grammar checker alongside it. If your workflow already runs through Quillbot for rewriting, its built-in detector is the more convenient single-account option.
Can I check a document longer than 1,200 words all at once? Yes, this tool has no per-scan word limit below 2,000,000 characters, so a full report or long article checks in one pass instead of being split into 1,200-word chunks the way Quillbot’s free tier requires.
ZeroGPT vs CapyToolkit’s Offline Detector
ZeroGPT gets closer than any other competitor here to matching this tool’s own pitch. No signup, no account, no price, just paste text and get a score, capped at 15,000 characters before it asks you to upgrade for more.19 That’s a genuinely low-friction tool, and this comparison isn’t about pretending otherwise. The real difference sits one layer deeper than price or signup: ZeroGPT’s own FAQ confirms your text is still sent to their servers to be processed, then discarded afterward, rather than scored on your own device the way it is here.20 Free and signup-free isn’t automatically the same claim as private, and this is the clearest case in this whole comparison series where that distinction actually matters.
ZeroGPT vs this tool, at a glance
| ZeroGPT | This tool | |
|---|---|---|
| Signup required | No | No |
| Price | Free | Free |
| Character cap | 15,000 free / 350,000 paid | 2,000,000, always |
| Where scoring happens | Their server, per their own FAQ | Entirely in your browser |
How ZeroGPT’s free, no-signup model works
ZeroGPT’s own FAQ is refreshingly direct about what happens to your text: it states plainly that submissions are not published, saved, or sold, and that a checked submission is processed only to generate a result and then discarded.20 Their infrastructure is described as hosted in Germany and operated under GDPR, a genuinely stronger privacy stance than most free detectors bother stating at all.
That Germany-based, GDPR-governed hosting is a specific, checkable claim rather than a vague privacy promise, and it puts a real regulatory framework behind the discard policy ZeroGPT describes. Few free detectors state their hosting jurisdiction at all, let alone tie it to a specific data-protection regime, and naming it plainly is worth crediting even while the comparison ultimately favors a different approach.
Why the discard policy still involves a round trip
None of that changes where the processing happens, though. “Processed then discarded” still describes a round trip: your text travels to ZeroGPT’s servers, gets analyzed there, and a result travels back, all before anything is thrown away. The discarding is a policy ZeroGPT commits to, not a technical guarantee your browser can verify on its own. That difference between a documented promise and a verifiable mechanism is exactly what the next section addresses.
What running entirely in your browser changes
CapyToolkit’s Offline & Private AI Text Detector removes that round trip completely. There’s no server to trust with a discard policy, because there’s no server involved in scoring at all. The four Basic signals run in JavaScript the instant you click Check for AI, and the Advanced classifier, once downloaded, scores every later paste through WebAssembly on your own machine.
That’s the practical meaning behind keeping a draft private while checking it for AI patterns: nothing to send, so nothing that could be intercepted, logged by mistake, or retained longer than promised. You don’t have to take a discard policy on faith, because there’s never a transmission for that policy to apply to in the first place.
No jurisdiction to reason about
It also means there’s no jurisdiction to reason about at all. Whether your text would be subject to Germany’s GDPR framework, a different country’s data laws, or some other regulatory regime becomes irrelevant when the text never leaves the device you’re already sitting at. That question simply doesn’t arise here the way it does for any tool that has to name a hosting location and a legal regime at all.
Where ZeroGPT remains a reasonable choice
ZeroGPT deserves credit for building a genuinely low-friction, free, no-signup tool, and its own privacy commitments are more specific than most competitors publish. For a quick, casual check where you’re comfortable with server-side processing under a stated no-storage policy, ZeroGPT does exactly what it promises, and it does so without asking for anything in return beyond your text.
A wider free toolset around the detector
ZeroGPT also bundles a wider set of free, no-signup tools around its detector, including a humanizer, a plagiarism checker, and a translator, all accessible from the same anonymous session. For someone who wants several quick, free utilities in one place without creating an account for any of them, that breadth is a real convenience this tool doesn’t attempt to match.
This tool exists for the narrower case where you’d rather not have text leave your device at all, whether that’s a policy requirement, a confidentiality concern, or just a preference. Both tools are free and both skip the signup form; the difference comes down entirely to where the computation happens, and how much you’re willing to trust a third party’s discard policy over never sending the text in the first place.
One caveat applies to any detector you choose, including this one: published research on this category of tool has found that non-native English writers are disproportionately likely to be misflagged, since simpler sentence structures read as statistically predictable regardless of which detector runs the check.11 A separate academic evaluation of 14 commercial and open-source detection tools found accuracy varying widely between them, with only a handful scoring above 70% and performance consistently dropping once text had been paraphrased.14 A large-scale adversarial benchmark covering millions of AI-generated samples has separately found that headline accuracy claims near 99% often don’t hold up against unfamiliar generative models or deliberate evasion attempts, a pattern that applies across the category rather than to any single vendor.10
When to use this comparison
Use this comparison to decide how much you actually care about where the scoring happens, since price and signup are already a wash between the two tools. If you’re comfortable with ZeroGPT’s stated policy of processing text on their server and discarding it afterward, its 15,000-character free cap covers most single documents. If you’d rather nothing leave your device at all, for confidentiality, policy, or simple preference, this tool removes that transmission entirely while matching ZeroGPT on price and signup.
Example
- Checking a confidential draft you’d rather not upload anywhere. Checks a 113-word paragraph about a corporate merger in the Offline & Private AI Text Detector, the kind of pre-announcement business text where you would want a score without sending a single word to anyone else’s server.
Common questions about ZeroGPT and CapyToolkit
Is ZeroGPT actually free with no signup, like this tool? Yes, ZeroGPT’s detector is free and doesn’t require an account for a base scan, capped at 15,000 characters per submission. This tool matches the free, no-signup part but has no cap below 2,000,000 characters.
Does ZeroGPT store the text I submit? ZeroGPT’s own FAQ states that they don’t publish, save, or sell submitted text, and that they process it only to generate a result before discarding it. That’s a real, specific privacy commitment, though it still describes text traveling to their servers first.
If ZeroGPT doesn’t store my text, is it as private as a browser-only tool? Not quite the same claim. Not storing text is different from never receiving it. ZeroGPT’s own FAQ confirms their infrastructure processes your text before discarding it, while this tool never transmits your text anywhere, so there’s nothing to discard in the first place.
Which is more accurate, ZeroGPT or this tool? ZeroGPT advertises a high accuracy rate on its own marketing pages without a detailed independent benchmark cited. This tool’s Advanced classifier reports 99.28% AUROC on the published RAID benchmark. The two aren’t tested under the same conditions, so treat both as general signals rather than a direct head-to-head result.
Why choose this tool over ZeroGPT if both are free and signup-free? CapyToolkit doesn’t operate a server at all for scoring, so the choice comes down to whether you want a stated no-storage policy on someone else’s infrastructure, which is what ZeroGPT offers, or no transmission in the first place, which is what this tool offers. Both are reasonable, honest positions; they just protect your text differently.
Does ZeroGPT’s 15,000-character limit matter for most checks? For a typical paragraph, essay, or blog post, 15,000 characters covers most single documents comfortably. It becomes a real constraint for longer reports or multi-page drafts, which is where this tool’s 2,000,000-character limit and no-signup upgrade path both remove the ceiling.
Choosing Based on What You’re Actually Checking
The useful question has never been which detector wins. What you are checking, and what you are willing to transmit, are the two answers that together eliminate most of the list before accuracy ever enters the conversation. A teacher screening thirty essays has a different problem from a writer checking a personal essay nobody has seen yet. Work down this path in order and the choice usually settles itself:
- If the text is confidential, client-owned, under NDA, or simply unannounced, keep it local and stop there. No accuracy advantage justifies transmitting a document you were not supposed to share.
- If you are deploying detection across a classroom or an institution, GPTZero and Copyleaks are the two that build for it, and the LMS integration you need decides between them.
- If your writing already happens inside a suite, use the detector bundled with it. The continuity is worth more than a marginal accuracy difference you cannot verify anyway.
- If it is a one-off check on text you would not mind emailing to a stranger, any free option in the table works, and ZeroGPT asks the least of you.
For confidential drafts specifically, the local habit tends to generalize. If you would rather not paste a client report into a detector, you probably also want to strip names, emails, and account numbers out of a document before it reaches any AI service, which is the same instinct applied one step earlier in the workflow. Both come down to deciding what leaves your machine, rather than reading a privacy policy afterward and hoping.
Pricing shifts, caps get raised, and accuracy claims get restated with every release, so a comparison built on those three alone expires quickly. Where a tool computes your score is an architectural decision its builders made at the start. Worth ending on the honest note, though: not one detector here, paid or free, can prove who actually wrote a piece of text. The question worth asking is which one tells you enough about its own reasoning to be worth consulting at all.
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