Originality tells you it reads like AI. You already knew that.
A detector is built for the person checking somebody else’s work: a teacher, an editor, a hiring manager. If you wrote the draft, a percentage tells you nothing you did not know and gives you nothing to act on.
| RemoveAISlop | Originality.ai | |
|---|---|---|
| Who it is built for | The person who wrote it and has to publish it | The person checking whether somebody else wrote it |
| What you get back | The flagged words and patterns, and the draft rewritten | A probability score |
| Judging authorship | We refuse to. We report habits, not who wrote it | A confidence score on authorship, which is what it is for |
| Explains itself | Every finding names the term, the pattern and why it fired | A score, with limited detail on what drove it |
| Plagiarism and fact checking | No | Yes, both, alongside detection |
| Spelling, grammar and readability | All three, in the same pass as the AI phrasing | All three as separate checkers on the same plan |
| Rewriting the draft | Yes. That is the product | No. It scores and reports; changing the writing is left to you |
| Will it guarantee a score elsewhere? | No, and we say so. Nobody can honestly promise a number on a classifier they do not control | Sells the score itself, which is a coherent thing to sell |
| Price | Free unlimited checking, no credits. $9.99 a month for unlimited rewriting | Pro $14.95 a month, or $12.95 billed annually. Credit-based: 2,000 credits a month, one credit per 100 words |
Where Originality.ai does something better, the row says so. Checked against their public documentation and pricing on the date above.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Which one do I actually need?
If you are checking somebody else’s work and need a verdict, use a detector; that is the job it was built for and we do not do it. Originality also carries plagiarism, fact checking, grammar and readability, so it covers more ground than we do. What it does not do is change the writing: if you wrote the draft and need it publishable, a score does not tell you which words to swap.
Will using this make Originality score my text as human?
Usually it moves, because we remove the things those classifiers measure: over-indexed vocabulary, flat sentence rhythm, formulaic openers. We will not promise a number. Nobody outside those companies knows how their models weight anything, and they change without notice.
Why will you not just tell me if my text is AI?
Because no honest tool can. Careful AI writing scores low on every detector and heavily formatted human writing scores high, so a verdict is a guess with a number attached. We report the habits of unedited AI prose and tell you what to fix, which is a question that has an answer.
Why was my own writing flagged as AI?
Because detectors measure surface habits, not authorship, and some people write in those habits naturally. Non-native English writers, anyone trained on academic or legal register, and writers who structure heavily with headings and bullets all read as machine-written to a classifier. That is not a fault you can appeal, which is the strongest argument against treating any score as evidence about a person.
What counts as a good Originality.ai score?
There is no threshold anybody outside those companies can defend, and chasing one is the trap. A score is a model's opinion about surface patterns, it moves when they retrain, and two drafts that read identically to a person can land far apart. If you are being asked to hit a number, the honest reply is that the number is not measuring what the person asking thinks it measures.
How do I lower an AI detection score?
Remove what the classifiers measure: over-produced vocabulary, sentences that all run the same length, formulaic openers and closers, and the formatting habits of unedited output. Scores usually fall when those go, because the habits were what produced them. We will not promise you a number, and any tool that does is guessing with your work.
Does it detect ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini?
Detectors are trained to recognise the statistical shape of model output in general rather than one product, so a specific brand claim is worth less than it sounds. Our side does not try to identify which model wrote something and never will: the catalogue describes habits common to unedited output from all of them, and a habit is not a signature.
Is a detector worth paying for?
If your job is checking work you did not write, yes, and that is the job it is built for. A teacher, an editor or a hiring manager needs a signal, and Originality also gives them plagiarism and fact checking in the same place. If you wrote the draft yourself, you are paying for an answer you already have.
Is there a free alternative to Originality.ai?
For checking, this is free and unlimited with no credits and no account, and it names the specific words rather than returning a percentage. It is not a substitute for what a detector does: we do not judge authorship, and we have no plagiarism index. If a verdict about somebody else's work is what you need, we are not the tool.
Can I run a whole site or a batch?
Originality scans a site by URL, which we do not do. On this side the equivalent is Bulk CSV: export a queue of drafts, run them in one go, and get the original and the cleaned version back side by side with the before and after scores. That is built for someone publishing volume rather than auditing pages already live.
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