Grammarly vs Pismo

Grammarly

Still the default for catching mistakes inside other people's software, but the free tier has quietly become an AI-prompt meter and the honest price is $30 unless you commit to a full year.

Pros

• +Runs inside the apps people already write in rather than as a separate editor
• +Free tier still covers spelling, grammar and tone detection with no time limit
• +Pro folds in plagiarism and AI-text detection that rivals charge for separately

Cons

• −The $12 headline is the annual rate; paying monthly costs $30
• −Free AI allowance is 100 prompts a month and depletes quickly
• −No public API, so it cannot be embedded in another product
• −Enterprise pricing is not published anywhere on the site

Pismo

The whole value is that it works where you already are: no tab switch, no paste, just select and press a key in whatever application you happen to be in. Custom prompts bound to hotkeys make repeated editing passes cheap. It is a thin layer over a model, priced accordingly, and the euro pricing with unlimited requests is unusually simple.

Pros

• +Works in any macOS or Windows application via a system-wide hotkey
• +Rewrite, tone change, expand, shorten, translate and proofread from one selection
• +Custom prompts saveable and bindable to their own shortcuts
• +Unlimited requests and unlimited devices on both plans
• +Vendor states it does not store or process the texts you send

Cons

• −No free tier — only a one-week trial
• −Requires an internet connection, so nothing works offline
• −Priced in euros, so the dollar cost moves with the exchange rate
• −No API, no browser extension and no Linux build
• −A small studio-backed product with a thin public track record

Is Grammarly cheaper than Pismo?

On published entry prices, Pismo starts lower — $9/mo against $12/mo for Grammarly. Entry price is the lowest paid plan as we last verified it; what each plan includes differs.

Does Grammarly or Pismo have a free tier?

Grammarly has a free tier; Pismo has paid plans only.