# Pricing — Free AI Detector & Pro Limits

The enforced limits per plan, not marketing rounding: 20,000 characters free, 50,000 with an account, deep scans metered. Pro $19/mo when billing opens.

- Source: https://scanforai.com/pricing
- ScanForAI — AI-writing detection. A score is a signal, not a verdict.

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# Pricing

★★★★★ 4.6 from 1050 user ratings

The limits we actually enforce, per plan. Nothing is charged yet.

### Free

The full detector, for anyone.

**$0**forever — no card

- 50,000 characters per scan
- 300 deep scans a month
- Batch scan 20 files or URLs
- History, PDF reports & API key
- Cleanup included

### Pro

For editors & heavy individual use.

**$19**per month**$15.83**per month, billed $190 a year — save $38

- 100,000 characters per scan
- 1,000 deep scans a month
- Batch 50 + exports
- Full API keys

### Team

Schools, newsrooms & agencies.

**$12**per seat / month · min 5 seats**$10**per seat / month, billed $120 a year — save $24 a seat · min 5 seats

- Pro limits, doubled per seat
- 2,000 deep scans a seat / month
- Seat admin & central billing
- Shared team history
- Batch 100 files or URLs

No account at all? The scanner stays free anonymously — 20,000 characters a scan, nothing stored. **Nothing is charged yet;** paid limits apply when billing opens.

|   | Anonymous | Free account | Pro | Team |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Price | Free | **Free** — no card, 30-second signup | **$19** /mo**$190** /yr — $15.83/mo | **$12** /seat/mo**$120** /seat/yr — $10/mo |
| Seats | — | 1 | 1 | minimum 5 |
| Characters per scan (≈ words) | 20,000 (~3,500) | **50,000** (~8,500) | 100,000 (~17,000) | 100,000 |
| Scans — fast pattern engine | **Unlimited** | **Unlimited** | **Unlimited** | **Unlimited** |
| Deep analysis — language-model pass (the only metered scan) | Free account | 30 / hour · 300 / month | 200 / hour · 1,000 / month | 200 / hour · **2,000 / month** per seat |
| AI-leaning lines marked in your text | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| What's driving the score — patterns & fixes | — | **✓ full breakdown** | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mixed-document part scoring | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| File upload (.docx, .odt, .pdf, .txt, .md, .html) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| New accounts: a starter allowance (5 deep scans) until the email is verified — verification is free and instant. |   |   |   |   |
| Cleanup (strip machine formatting) — free & ungated, always | **✓ unlimited** | **✓ unlimited** + cleaned-file download & history | ✓ | ✓ |
| Batch scan | — | 20 files or URLs at once | 50 files or URLs at once | **100** files or URLs at once |
| Check a live URL | 10 / hour | 40 / hour | 300 / hour | 300 / hour |
| History, compare & PDF reports | — | ✓ (kept 1 year) | ✓ | ✓ + shared team history |
| API access | — | ✓ personal key | ✓ same key, higher limits | ✓ same key, higher limits |
| Seat admin & central billing | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Privacy | Nothing stored, ever | Stored only if you choose (per-scan toggle) | Same | Same |

Current limits — generous on purpose while we learn real usage; any tightening gets announced first. These are the limits we actually enforce in the backend — the real numbers, not marketing rounding. Annual billing is 10 months for 12. The free tier is permanent, not a trial.

## Features, next to the big names.

The honest matrix — what we do, what they do, no accuracy theatre from anyone.

|   | ScanForAI | GPTZero | Originality.ai | Copyleaks |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Free detector | **✓ full-featured** | ✓ tight limits | — credit-based | ✓ small trial |
| AI lines marked in text | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Plain-English reasons per score | **✓ every scan** | partial | — | — |
| Mixed-document part scoring | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Formatting cleanup tool | ✓ free | — | — | — |
| Batch scanning | ✓ free account | paid | paid | paid |
| Scan a live URL | ✓ free | — | paid | paid |
| PDF evidence reports | ✓ free account | paid | paid | paid |
| API | ✓ free | paid | paid | paid |
| Anonymous scans stored? | **Never** | see policy | see policy | see policy |
| Plagiarism check | — (roadmap: citation check) | ✓ paid | ✓ | ✓ |

Competitor cells paraphrased from public pages, last reviewed July 2026; plans change — check [gptzero.me](https://gptzero.me), [originality.ai](https://originality.ai) and [copyleaks.com](https://copyleaks.com) for current terms. All trademarks belong to their owners; ScanForAI is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them. We publish no accuracy percentages for anyone — [here's why](https://scanforai.com/accuracy).

## Pricing questions, answered straight.

**20,000 characters** (about 3,500 words) with no account, **50,000 characters** (about 8,500 words) on a free account — a full paper or long article in one scan, where many AI checkers cap you around 5,000 characters.

Yes. The scanner is free without an account, and a free account unlocks the full breakdown, deep analysis, batch, history and the API — no card, no trial clock. We don't charge yet, and we say so plainly.

The free tier stays — the scanner and a generous free account are permanent, not a trick. Paid adds volume and team features on top. Limits may get tuned as we learn real usage, and we'll announce changes before they happen.

**$19/month or $190/year** (two months free). Nothing is charged yet, and the free tier stays.

A scan that also runs our trained language model for the strongest read (the Deep toggle). Regular scans use the fast pattern engine and are unlimited on every plan — as is Cleanup. Only deep scans (the language-model pass) are metered, since they're the only ones with a real per-scan compute cost. [Fast vs Deep, in full](https://scanforai.com/fast-vs-deep).

Yes — **Team is $12 per seat/month or $120 per seat/year** (two months free), minimum 5 seats. Each seat gets higher limits than Pro — 2,000 deep scans a month and 100-file batches — plus seat admin, shared team history and central billing. Schools and content teams with real volume today: write to us — capacity is negotiable.