Free, no-account essay checker that scores AI likelihood, grades against a rubric and fixes grammar
Best for: Students checking a draft for machine-sounding sentences before submitting it
ai-for / ai-detection
As of , EffectHub tracks 20 tools for AI detection; 15 (75%) have a free tier, and paid plans run from $7.90 to $19.90 a month.
EssayCheck, AI Aware and Inkey lead the list on click-through. 14 of the 20 ship a public API.
AI content detectors estimate whether a text, image or audio clip was machine-generated. For text the estimate is statistical and fallible: detectors flag some human writing, miss edited machine writing, and give no evidence a reader can check. That makes them a screening signal, never a verdict. For images and audio, provenance standards and watermarks are more reliable than guessing from the content, where the generator supports them.
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Free, no-account essay checker that scores AI likelihood, grades against a rubric and fixes grammar
Best for: Students checking a draft for machine-sounding sentences before submitting it
Detects AI-generated text, images, audio and deepfake video, returning confidence scores per paragraph
Best for: Universities and publishers checking submissions across several media types
Thirty-odd student tools in one account: essays, maths word problems, paraphrasing, plagiarism and AI checks
Best for: Students who currently pay for a paraphraser and a plagiarism checker separately
AI-text humanizer that rewrites generated drafts to slip past detectors like GPTZero, free in small bites, paid by the month
Best for: Writers smoothing the tone of AI drafts they are allowed to use
Rewrites AI-generated text to read as human and scores it against detector models
Best for: Editing machine drafts into prose that sounds less uniform
Estimates whether text was machine-written and flags the sentences
Best for: Schools and universities that need a defensible second opinion, not a verdict
Plagiarism and AI-detection checking bundled inside a wider AI writing suite, not a standalone scanner.
Best for: Students and content writers who already want the full JustDone writing suite
Grammar, autocomplete and snippet suggestions for customer-facing teams, plus a language API with AI detection
Best for: Support and sales teams answering high message volumes inside helpdesks and CRMs
Student writing suite spanning rewriting, detection and citations
Best for: Students juggling essay drafting, citations and translation in one place
Rewrites machine-written drafts to read human, with detection scoring built in
Best for: Marketers cleaning up bulk LLM drafts before publishing
Academic writing workspace where quotes keep their page numbers from PDF reading through drafting to review
Best for: Writing from a stack of PDFs where every claim needs a page citation
Rewrites AI-generated text to read as human-written, with a built-in AI-detection score and 60+ languages.
Best for: Agencies and SEO teams rewriting AI drafts in bulk
Rewrites AI-generated drafts to read as human writing
Best for: Agencies cleaning up bulk AI drafts before client delivery
Checks essays against Turnitin, GPTZero and other detectors, then rewrites flagged passages to read as human-written.
Best for: Writers who draft with AI and need a natural-sounding final pass
AI-text and plagiarism detection built for publishers and agencies
Best for: Content agencies auditing freelance submissions before they pay for them
Institutional similarity checking and AI-writing indicators for assignments, exams and manuscripts
Best for: Universities and school districts that need similarity checking wired into Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard or D2L
Rewrites AI-generated text to read as human-written and pass AI detectors.
Best for: Writers and marketers who already draft with AI and need the output to read naturally
Detects AI-generated text, images, documents, voice, and video, with a confidence score and REST API.
Best for: Teams screening submissions across mixed media, not just text
Grammar and academic-style checker built for research writing, with plagiarism and AI-text detection
Best for: researchers preparing journal manuscripts
Detects image forgery and AI-generated images in documents for KYC, lending, and insurance-claim review.
Best for: Fintech and lending teams needing automated income-document authenticity checks
| Tool | Price | Free plan | API | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EssayCheck | Free | Yes | Not confirmed | Active |
| AI Aware | On request | Not confirmed | Yes | Active |
| Inkey | Not confirmed | Yes | Not confirmed | Unverified |
| BypassGPT.co | from $7.90/mo | Yes | Not confirmed | Active |
| WriteHuman | from $12/mo | Yes | Yes | Active |
| GPTZero | from $12.99/mo | Yes | Yes | Active |
| JustDone | Not confirmed | No | Not confirmed | Active |
| Sapling | from $12/mo | Yes | Yes | Active |
| Smodin | from $12.99/mo | Yes | Yes | Active |
| Undetectable AI | from $9.99/mo | Yes | Yes | Active |
| WriteGo | from $19.90/mo | Yes | Yes | Active |
| HumanTone | from $8/mo | Yes | Yes | Active |
| Humanize AI | from $14/mo | Yes | Yes | Active |
| Lunchbreak AI | from $10/mo | Yes | Not confirmed | Active |
| Originality.AI | from $14.95/mo | Yes | Yes | Active |
| Turnitin | On request | Not confirmed | Yes | Unverified |
| Verva | from $8/mo | No | Not confirmed | Active |
| WasItAIGenerated | from $10 once | Yes | Yes | Active |
| Trinka AI | Not confirmed | Yes | Yes | Active |
| TurboLens | On request | Not confirmed | Yes | Active |
Yes. 1 of the 20 tools for AI detection on EffectHub's list is free to use — EssayCheck; 14 more have a free tier with paid upgrades.
As of October 26, 2026, paid plans for the 20 tools for AI detection on EffectHub's list run from $7.90 to $19.90 a month. Each card shows the pricing model and the cheapest paid plan as EffectHub last verified it; 15 of the 20 can be started for free.
14 of the 20 tools for AI detection on EffectHub's list ship a public API, including AI Aware, WriteHuman, GPTZero and Sapling. The API badge on each card is re-checked against the vendor's documentation.
Not reliably enough to act on alone. Every detector produces false positives on human writing — more often on short, formulaic or non-native text — and false negatives on edited machine output. Use them to decide what to review, and base any decision on the review.
Yes. Clear, structured, formulaic writing is exactly what detectors associate with machines, and non-native English writers are flagged more often. If a detector flags your own work, version history and drafts are better evidence than another detector's score.
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As of October 26, 2026, EffectHub tracks 20 tools for AI detection; 15 (75%) have a free tier, and paid plans run from $7.90 to $19.90 a month. (EffectHub, “AI Content Detectors”, Oct 2026, https://effecthub.net/ai-for/ai-detection)
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