People look for a Grammarly alternative when they only wanted proofreading and now pay for an AI platform, when they write in languages other than English, or when a team needs a different licence model. They move to a dedicated grammar checker, a rewriter, or a specialist tool for fiction, marketing copy or academic writing.
Sebastiaan SmitsFounderShort answer: The first three alternatives to Grammarly in our AI writing tool ranking are LanguageTool, ProWritingAid and Wordtune. Places 1 to 3 go to challengers, vendors outside the best-known brands in a category, wherever the category has them; the established names follow from place 4 in their ranked order. Choose LanguageTool if you write in several languages or want a self-hostable engine. All 12 alternatives below are ranked products from Best AI Writing Tools in 2026, and each says where it differs from Grammarly.
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Grammarly's own about page describes it as an AI communication platform that works across more than 1 million apps and websites, and the company renamed itself Superhuman in October after buying Coda and Superhuman Mail. If you installed it to catch typos, you are now buying into a wider product line.
The plans page shows Free at EUR 0 and Pro at EUR 12, with full-sentence rewrites, tone adjustment, plagiarism and AI-text detection all marked as Pro only. Free includes 100 AI prompts a month, Pro 2,000. Anyone who needs just one of those features pays for the whole bundle.
SAML single sign-on, SCIM, audit logs and custom roles appear only in the Enterprise column, which is sold through Contact Sales with no listed price. The Pro column also lists 'write fluently in English' as a feature, so a team that mostly writes in German or Dutch should test coverage before committing.
| Alternative | Headquarters | Free option | Pricing | Key difference | Switch if | Our rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LanguageTool | Germany | Yes | Free tier; Premium subscription by billing interval | Multilingual grammar checker whose core engine is open source | you write in several languages or want a self-hostable engine | #8 |
| ProWritingAid | United Kingdom | Yes | Free plan; monthly, yearly or lifetime, published | Self-funded grammar and style editor with a free plan and lifetime licence | you want deep style reports and a one-off lifetime licence | #1 |
| Wordtune | Israel | Yes | Free plan; monthly and annual plans, published; 3-day trial | Sentence-level rewriter and summariser made by AI21 Labs | rewording sentences matters more to you than catching every grammar slip | #9 |
| Jasper | United States | No free tier | Per seat per month, published; Business quoted; 7-day trial | Marketing content platform with brand voice and agents, billed per seat | your team produces marketing content and needs shared brand voice, not proofreading | #10 |
| Writer | United States | No free tier | Quoted per organisation; 14-day trial | Enterprise agent platform with governance, sold through a sales process | your organisation wants governed AI workflows and will go through a sales process | #11 |
| Copy.ai | United States | No free tier | Per plan per month, published; annual billing on larger tiers | Started as a copy generator, now a go-to-market workflow platform | you want AI workflows for sales and marketing teams, not edits to your drafts | #12 |
| Rytr | United States | Yes | Free plan; monthly or yearly plans, published | Short-form copy generator with a low-priced unlimited plan | you want cheap drafting in many languages with no character cap | #3 |
| Anyword | United States | No free tier | Per month by plan, published; 7-day trial; Business and Enterprise quoted | Marketing copy tool that scores drafts with performance predictions | you write ads and landing pages and want data on which wording may convert | #6 |
| Jenni AI | United States | Yes | Free plan; monthly and annual plans, published | Research-paper writing assistant with citations and PDF uploads | you are writing a paper and need citations and PDF-based help more than grammar checks | #7 |
| Sudowrite | Not stated by the vendor | No free tier | Credit-based monthly plans, published; trial without card | Fiction drafting assistant that meters work in monthly credits | you write novels or screenplays and want drafting help with a credit allowance | #4 |
| Novelcrafter | Germany | No free tier | Per month by plan, published; 21-day trial | Fiction planning workspace where you bring your own AI model key | you write fiction and want to bring your own AI model key | #2 |
| Squibler | United States | Yes | Free plan; monthly or annual credit plans, published | Book and screenplay generator priced by AI credit allowance | you want to generate a full book draft and export it to PDF and DOCX | #5 |
Germany · Free tier; Premium subscription by billing interval
A grammar and style checker that supports 30+ languages and whose core is open source under the LGPL 2.1 licence, so you can run your own server. The vendor says it is made in Europe and the US. Premium adds paraphrasing and a style guide; we could not read its prices, which load client-side.
Switch from Grammarly if you write in several languages or want a self-hostable engine.
United Kingdom · Free plan; monthly, yearly or lifetime, published
An English-only editor with report-style analysis (25+ writing reports in Premium) and a free plan limited to two runs per report per day. Premium is EUR 30 monthly or EUR 10 a month billed yearly, and a lifetime option is offered. It targets book authors more than office email.
Switch from Grammarly if you want deep style reports and a one-off lifetime licence.
Israel · Free plan; monthly and annual plans, published; 3-day trial
A sentence rewriter from AI21 Labs. Basic is free with 10 rewrites a day, and paid plans list a 3-day trial. It writes in English only, though it translates ten languages into English. It has no plagiarism checker on the plans page and is sold to individuals first.
Switch from Grammarly if rewording sentences matters more to you than catching every grammar slip.
United States · Per seat per month, published; Business quoted; 7-day trial
A marketing content platform priced per seat: Pro lists USD 69 a month per seat with a 7-day trial, with brand voice and agents on top. It generates campaign copy rather than correcting your own drafts. Heavier on cost than a checker for a team of ten.
Switch from Grammarly if your team produces marketing content and needs shared brand voice, not proofreading.
United States · Quoted per organisation; 14-day trial
An enterprise agent platform. The Starter plan covers up to 5 users with a 14-day trial and 5 playbooks, while Enterprise is quoted through sales and adds governance, observability and unlimited users. It replaces Grammarly's team controls with workflow automation, which is a different job.
Switch from Grammarly if your organisation wants governed AI workflows and will go through a sales process.
United States · Per plan per month, published; annual billing on larger tiers
Now sold as a go-to-market workflow platform. The Chat plan lists USD 29 a month for 5 seats, while the Growth plan lists USD 1,000 a month billed annually for 75 seats and workflow credits. It automates sales and marketing processes and is not a checker for your own text.
Switch from Grammarly if you want AI workflows for sales and marketing teams, not edits to your drafts.
United States · Free plan; monthly or yearly plans, published
Its pricing page now centres on follow-up and relationship tooling, with a writing assistant in the Create product. Free gives 10,000 characters a month, Lite lists USD 9 for unlimited characters, Pro USD 49. It generates text in 30+ languages but does not review documents for errors.
Switch from Grammarly if you want cheap drafting in many languages with no character cap.
United States · Per month by plan, published; 7-day trial; Business and Enterprise quoted
Marketing copy tied to performance predictions. Starter lists USD 49 a month with 50 predictions and 1 seat, Data-Driven USD 99 with 3 seats, and a 7-day trial. Business and Enterprise are quoted. It scores copy before you publish and does not proofread general documents.
Switch from Grammarly if you write ads and landing pages and want data on which wording may convert.
United States · Free plan; monthly and annual plans, published
Built for academic writing: autocomplete, PDF uploads, citations in 10,000+ styles and reviews of a draft. Free allows 10 autocompletes a day; Plus lists USD 12 a month and Pro USD 29. The company is registered in Delaware. It is a drafting environment, not a browser-wide checker.
Switch from Grammarly if you are writing a paper and need citations and PDF-based help more than grammar checks.
Not stated by the vendor · Credit-based monthly plans, published; trial without card
A fiction tool that meters work in monthly credits: Hobby and Student lists USD 10 for 225,000 credits, Professional USD 22 for 1,000,000, Max USD 44 for 2,000,000. A trial needs no card. It writes and critiques stories and does not edit business email.
Switch from Grammarly if you write novels or screenplays and want drafting help with a credit allowance.
Germany · Per month by plan, published; 21-day trial
A planning workspace for fiction. Scribe lists USD 4 a month without AI, while AI use via your own API key begins at Hobbyist (USD 8). A 21-day trial needs no card. You pay the model provider separately, so the total depends on usage, and it does no grammar checking in other apps.
Switch from Grammarly if you write fiction and want to bring your own AI model key.
United States · Free plan; monthly or annual credit plans, published
Generates whole books and screenplays from a prompt. Free gives 1,000 AI credits a month, Plus lists USD 29.99 monthly for 10,000 credits and Pro USD 89.99 for unlimited credits, with annual discounts. It is a manuscript generator and does not proofread text you write elsewhere.
Switch from Grammarly if you want to generate a full book draft and export it to PDF and DOCX.
Grammarly remains a reasonable choice when you write mostly in English across many apps. The plans page lists a free tier, 100 AI prompts a month on it, and a SOC 2 (Type 2) report, and the Pro plan adds rewrites, tone control and plagiarism detection in one subscription. A team that already uses its Enterprise controls (SAML, audit logs, data loss prevention) would also have to replace those, not only the grammar engine.
Grammarly's Pro plan includes one style guide, one brand tone and snippets, and Enterprise allows unlimited guides. Export your preferred terms, spellings and snippet text into a plain document first, then enter them in the new tool's dictionary or style guide so your house wording survives the move.
Suggestions differ between engines, and a tool that misses less on your usual documents is more useful than one that flags more. Take ten real emails and reports, check them in each candidate during its trial, and count the corrections you would actually accept. Free tiers and trials are listed above.
LanguageTool has a free grammar checker in its editor and its core is open source, ProWritingAid has a free plan with two runs per report per day, and Wordtune Basic is free with 10 rewrites a day.
Limits are lower than the paid plans, so test with your usual document length.
LanguageTool lists 30+ languages and Rytr lists 30+ languages for writing. ProWritingAid says it is currently English only and Wordtune writes in English only, though it translates other languages into English. Check your own language on a trial before paying.
LanguageTool's core is published under the LGPL 2.1 licence, and its about page says users can set up their own LanguageTool server. The hosted Premium features, such as the style guide and paraphrasing, are part of its subscription.
ProWritingAid lists a lifetime option next to monthly and yearly billing, and its refund page gives three days to ask for money back on yearly or lifetime plans. Grammarly's plans page shows only Free, Pro and Enterprise.
Its about page says it acquired Coda and Superhuman Mail in 2025 and that the company became Superhuman in October, with Grammarly remaining one of three products. Plan names on the plans page are Free, Pro and Enterprise.
Sudowrite, Novelcrafter and Squibler target fiction, and ProWritingAid offers story reports. They differ in model: Sudowrite meters credits, Novelcrafter needs your own AI key from the Hobbyist plan, Squibler generates whole manuscripts. None is a general browser checker.
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Written, edited and fact-checked by Sebastiaan Smits. Last reviewed 19 October 2026. How we review.
