8 Best Grammarly Alternatives of 2026

ProWritingAid is the closest match to Grammarly for people who edit long pieces. Beyond grammar, spelling and punctuation, it runs separate reports such as the Grammar Report and the Sticky Sentence Report, which flag hard-to-read sentences. The free plan lets you run each line editing report twice a day on up to 500 words and gives you 10 rephrases a day, which is enough to test it on a short piece. Premium removes those caps, adds premium style suggestions, a custom style guide and author comparison, and costs $10 a month billed yearly ($120). Writers who dislike subscriptions can pay $399 once. Premium Pro, at $12 a month billed yearly, adds story tools including 30 Chapter Critiques a day. The weak spot is monthly billing: $30 a month is steep next to the yearly price. We compared documented features and published prices on the ProWritingAid pricing page.

LanguageTool is the pick if you write in a language other than English, or switch between several. It checks English, German, Portuguese, Spanish, French and Dutch plus more than 30 other languages and dialects, and it runs in more places than most rivals: Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Opera, Gmail, Apple Mail and Thunderbird, Google Docs, Word, Apple Pages, LibreOffice, and desktop apps for macOS and Windows. A free account adds a personal dictionary and statistics on your errors and languages. Premium adds more than 20,000 extra checks for seven languages, raises the limit to 150,000 characters per text field, and includes unlimited AI paraphrasing and a style guide with custom rules. There is also a Teams plan with user management and a shared style guide. The pricing page showed local currency from our location, so we could not confirm a USD price; it offers monthly, quarterly, annual and 2-year billing. We compared documented features and published plan details.

QuillBot is a different kind of Grammarly alternative: its core is a paraphraser, with grammar checking added around it. The free plan paraphrases up to 125 words at a time in 2 modes, fixes basic grammar errors, writes basic summaries and gives limited access to the AI Detector. Premium removes the paraphrasing cap, opens 10+ modes such as Academic and Simple, lets you create your own modes, and adds advanced grammar recommendations, tone insights, full humanizer and AI Detector access, and a Plagiarism Checker that works in 100+ languages. That bundle suits students and researchers who rework source material, as long as they cite it. A Team Plan adds usage metrics, a user management dashboard and centralized billing. QuillBot notes that usage limits apply and vary by surface. The premium page showed local currency from our location, so the USD price is pending. We compared documented features and published plan details.

Wordtune is a low-cost choice for people who mostly want help rephrasing what they already wrote. The free Basic plan gives unlimited spelling corrections and grammar checks, 10 rewrites and AI suggestions a day, and 3 AI summaries a month. Advanced, at $4.89 a month billed annually (listed against $6.99), lifts that to 30 rewrites a day and 15 summaries a month. The Unlimited plan, $6.99 a month billed annually, removes the caps on rewrites and summaries and adds vocabulary enhancements and fluency improvements. Business features such as SAML SSO and centralized billing sit on a separate tier. Paid plans start with a 3-day free trial. Compared with Grammarly, Wordtune is lighter: it focuses on rewrites rather than tone reports or style guides, so it suits quick fixes in email and documents more than heavy editing. We compared documented features and published prices on the Wordtune plans page.

Ginger is the cheapest verified paid option on this list and is built around people writing in English as a second language. Premium corrects whole sentences in context rather than single words, offers unlimited rephrasing with several suggestions per click, adds synonyms and tone variations, and translates text into 40+ languages without leaving the document. It works in the browser, on desktop and on mobile, with native integrations for Google Docs and Microsoft Office on Windows. During the current 50% off promotion, the annual plan is $45 billed once, or $3.75 a month; monthly billing is $6.50, and a 2-year plan works out to $3.00 a month. Students and teachers can get 70% off after an eligibility check. Ginger offers a free version but no free trial of Premium, though paid plans carry a 7-day money-back guarantee. Mac users should note the Office add-in is Windows only. We compared documented features and published prices on Ginger's store page.

Hemingway Editor Plus is built for one job: making writing shorter and clearer. It scores each document with a readability grade level, lets you set a target reading level, and highlights wordiness and weak language without limits. The AI layer rewrites wordy sentences and passive voice, fixes grammar, and adjusts content, tone, length and style. Individual 5K costs $8.33 a month, $100 billed annually, and includes 5,000 AI sentence rewrites a month; Individual 10K doubles that for $12.50 a month billed annually. A Team 10K plan covers up to 50 users on a single bill with admin roles. You can try Editor Plus for two weeks without a credit card, and the site also offers free online grammar, paraphrasing and readability checkers. It is less suited to people who want a tool in every text box, since its strength is document review rather than inline checking everywhere. We compared documented features and published prices on the Hemingway Editor Plus page.

Trinka targets a group Grammarly serves less directly: researchers, students writing theses and technical authors. It corrects against APA, AMA, ACS, AGU and IEEE style guides, runs technical spell checks, consistency checks and inclusive language checks, and proofreads Word and LaTeX files with tracked changes on paid plans. There is a native app for Microsoft Word. The free Basic plan includes 5,000 words of writing assistance a month in Lite mode. Premium gives full writing assistance in Lite and Power modes, all paraphraser modes and up to 120 editable proofread files a year, while plagiarism and citation tools run on credits. Premium Plus doubles credits and adds file translation in 30+ languages, and the Confidential Data plan adds an offline checker and compliance with SOC2, HIPAA, ISO and GDPR. Premium costs $48 a year, about $4 a month, and Premium Plus $75 a year. We compared documented features and published plan details.

Sapling fits teams that write the same kinds of replies all day, such as support and sales. Its Pro plan adds advanced writing suggestions, Autocomplete Everywhere, Rephrase and unlimited snippets, compared with 20 snippets on the free plan, and it works in Chrome, Google Docs, Outlook and Word. Pro also raises the AI detector limit from 2,000 to 100,000 characters per check. Pro costs $12 a month billed annually or $25 billed monthly, and new accounts can try it free for one month without a credit card. Enterprise starts at 10 seats for $15 a seat a month and adds chat assist, domain administration, team analytics, SSO and SCIM, and a self-hosted option. Developers can use a separate usage-based API with a one-time $5 minimum. For a solo writer, Sapling's grammar features are thinner than ProWritingAid's, so its value is strongest for teams. We compared documented features and published prices on the Sapling pricing page.