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Sudowrite

Verified Oct 15, 2026 Active
Storytelling & Fiction1viewsWrite a reviewUnited StatesEffect69/ 100
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Long-form fiction drafting with a story bible attached

fiction writingstory planningcreative writingmanuscript editingnovel draftingPaid · from $10/mo

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Pricing

Pricing model
Paid
Paid options from
$10/mo
Billing
Monthly

Credit-metered with no free tier, though the trial needs no card. Hobby & Student $10/month is 225,000 credits, Professional $22 currently shows 1,000,000 credits next to the earlier 450,000 figure, and Max $44 is 2,000,000 and the only tier where unused credits roll over (12 months). Yearly billing is advertised at up to 50% off.

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Overview

About Sudowrite

Sudowrite is a manuscript editor for novelists, built around a story bible that feeds characters, outline and world detail into every generation so scenes stay consistent across a book. Its own Muse model is tuned for narrative instead of ad copy, and sits beside Claude and OpenAI models the writer can switch between. Billing is by credit, from 225,000 a month on the $10 Hobby tier to 2,000,000 on Max, which is the only plan where leftovers roll forward.

Platforms
Web
API
Not confirmed
Last verified
Oct 15, 2026

Verified sources

  • Hobby & Student $10/month with 225,000 credits, Professional $22/month (1,000,000 shown beside 450,000 credits), Max $44/month with 2,000,000 credits and 12-month rollover; free trial without a credit card; yearly up to 50% off (15 October 2026)sudowrite.com ↗
  • All plans include story intelligence, style matching, series continuity and the Muse and Ballad fiction models plus 30 third-party models (15 October 2026)sudowrite.com ↗
  • Founded 2020 by Amit Gupta and James Yu, based in Los Angelestracxn.com ↗
Fact check

Is Sudowrite legit?

We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.

Domain registered
Jul 25, 2020 (6 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar Name.com, Inc., looked up Sep 6, 2026
TLS certificate
Issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Jan 5, 2027Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 15, 2026
Last checked
Oct 15, 2026The site answered
On the market since
2020The vendor's own material, read by us
Operated by
Sudowrite, United StatesOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026

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Editorial verdict

Pros & cons of Sudowrite

high confidence

The only writing tool built around a novel rather than a document, and the story bible is why people stay — but you are renting credits, and the cheap tier runs dry mid-chapter.

Pros

  • Story bible holds characters and plot consistent across a full manuscript
  • Muse is tuned for narrative rather than general-purpose output
  • Max rolls unused credits forward for twelve months
  • Trial needs no credit card

Cons

  • No free tier — when credits stop, the manuscript stops
  • 225,000 credits on the $10 plan is thin for a full-length draft
  • Rollover exists only on the $44 Max plan
  • Web-only, with no offline or desktop editor

Best for

  • Novelists drafting long fiction who need continuity across many chapters
  • Writers who want targeted moves — expand, describe, rewrite — instead of a chat window
  • Anyone comparing a fiction-tuned model against general-purpose assistants

Not for

  • Business, marketing or technical writing — every affordance assumes narrative
  • Writers who would rather bring their own API key and pay model rates

Watch out: Credits expire at the end of each month on every plan except Max, so a slow writing month is money burned.

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