QuillBot Pricing (2026): Free vs Premium, Costs and Limits
QuillBot has one paid plan, Premium, which costs $99.95 a year ($8.33 a month), $39.95 every three months or $19.95 month-to-month. Teams can buy Premium seats at a volume discount. The free plan covers short jobs: 125-word paraphrases in two modes, unlimited grammar checks, 1,200-word summaries, six AI-detector scans a day and free citations. Pay for Premium if you paraphrase longer text, need plagiarism checks or keep hitting the free caps; pick the yearly plan if you will use it for more than five months.
Prices checked 25 September 2026 on QuillBot's official pricing page. Prices are in US dollars unless stated and can change at any time.
QuillBot plans and prices
Free
- Paraphraser: 125 words per run, Standard and Fluency modes, 1 frozen word
- Unlimited grammar checks in 6 languages
- Summarizer: 1,200 words at a time
- AI Detector: 1,200 words per scan, 6 scans a day
- AI Humanizer: up to 125 words, limited use
- Citation generator (1,000+ styles) with no usage limits
- Translator in 52 languages, with a word limit per translation
- AI resume builder and AI presentation maker
- Limited AI chat and image generation; 10 MB of document storage
- No plagiarism checks
- Only 2 paraphrase modes and a limited synonym slider
- No paraphraser or humanizer history
Premium
- Unlimited paraphrasing in 9 preset modes plus unlimited custom modes
- Full synonym slider, unlimited frozen words, mode comparison and history
- Summarizer: 6,000 words and custom summary instructions
- Plagiarism checker: 25,000 words a month in 100+ languages
- AI Detector with no word or scan limits and downloadable reports
- AI Humanizer with no word or usage limits, also inside ChatGPT and Gemini
- Advanced writing suggestions and tone insights
- Unlimited translation words, higher AI chat limits and 100 MB storage
- Plagiarism words beyond 25,000 a month cost extra
- App Store and Google Play subscriptions cannot be paused
Team Plan
- All Premium features for every seat
- Writer-management dashboards
- Centralised billing
- Team Plan subscriptions cannot be paused
- Discounts are relative to the individual yearly price
Is there a free plan?
QuillBot's free plan has no time limit, and several tools need no account at all. The grammar checker and citation generator are free with no usage caps. The paraphraser handles 125 words at a time in Standard and Fluency modes, the summarizer 1,200 words, and the AI detector 1,200 words per scan up to six scans a day. The humanizer, AI chat and image generator are available with tight limits. Plagiarism checks are not included; they need Premium.
What you will actually pay
Worked examples using the published prices above.
| Scenario | Cost | How we got there |
|---|---|---|
| Student on yearly Premium | $99.95/year | One payment of $99.95, about $8.33 a month. Paying monthly would cost $19.95 x 12 = $239.40, so yearly saves $139.45. |
| Student who needs Premium for one 3-month term | $39.95 | One quarterly payment of $39.95. Paying monthly for the same 3 months would cost $19.95 x 3 = $59.85. |
| Writer who uses QuillBot and Grammarly Pro together | $243.95/year | QuillBot Premium $99.95 + Grammarly Pro $144 (both billed yearly) = $243.95. That is still less than one month-to-month year of Grammarly Pro alone ($30 x 12 = $360). |
QuillBot pricing compared with rivals
| Tool | Paid plans from | Free plan | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| QuillBot | $8.33/month billed yearly ($99.95/year); $19.95 month-to-month | Yes: 125-word paraphrases, unlimited grammar checks, free citations | The tool on this page |
| Grammarly | $12/month billed yearly ($144/year); $30 monthly | Yes: unlimited basic checks, 100 AI prompts a month | Better grammar teaching and rewrites inside every app; simpler paraphrasing controls. |
| Wordtune | $4.89/month billed yearly (Advanced); $6.99 monthly | Yes: 10 rewrites a day | Cheaper sentence rewrites, but no plagiarism checker, citation generator or AI detector. |
| Claude | $17/month billed yearly or $20 monthly (Pro) | Yes | More natural rewrites of long passages if you describe the audience; no paraphrase modes or slider. |
| ChatGPT | $8/month (Go); Plus $20/month | Yes | Rewrites and drafts in one app, with less control over exactly what changes. |
Yes on the yearly plan, if you use at least two of its tools every week. $99.95 a year buys unlimited paraphrasing, longer summaries, plagiarism checks and unlimited AI detection, which is less than one year of Grammarly Pro ($144). For students and non-native English writers who rewrite and summarise a lot, few tools give more for the money.
It is poor value month-to-month: five months at $19.95 already costs as much as a full year. And if you only need grammar checks and citations, the free plan covers both with no limits. If you mainly want to rewrite long documents for a new audience, a general chatbot such as Claude may serve you better.
Pausing, cancelling and refunds
Instead of cancelling, you can pause a web-bought Premium subscription for 30, 60 or 90 days from Account Details > Your Plan. Billing stops, Premium features switch off, and your renewal date moves back by the number of days paused. You can resume early at any time. Team Plan and app-store subscriptions cannot be paused.
To cancel, turn off auto-renewal; you keep Premium until the end of the paid period. QuillBot's help centre says refunds are issued only where the law requires, under the Learneo terms of service. Buyers in the EEA and UK have a 14-day right of withdrawal.
Team Plan and volume discounts
QuillBot sells Premium to groups through its Team Plan, billed yearly per seat. The discount grows with size: 10% off for 2 to 10 seats, 20% off for 11 to 50 and 30% off for 51 or more, compared with the individual yearly price. Every seat gets full Premium, and admins get writer-management dashboards and one invoice. QuillBot shows team prices in your local currency at checkout.
- Choose yearly billing if you will use QuillBot for more than five months: five months at $19.95 ($99.75) costs about the same as a full year ($99.95).
- Pause instead of cancelling over long breaks. Billing stops for 30 to 90 days and your renewal date moves back by the same amount.
- Buy on the website rather than in the phone app if you want the option to pause.
- Use the free grammar checker, citation generator and translator without paying; they cover most small jobs.
- Test the free tools for a week before you pay, because refunds are only given where the law requires.
Jargon explained
- Paraphrasing
- Rewriting a sentence or passage in different words while keeping its meaning. Other people's ideas still need a citation after you paraphrase them.
- Synonym slider
- A QuillBot control that sets how many words get swapped for synonyms. Higher settings change more words and risk changing the meaning.
- Freeze Words
- A QuillBot setting that locks chosen words or phrases so the paraphraser never changes them.
- AI humanizer
- A tool that rewrites AI-generated text so it sounds more natural. It does not reliably stop AI detectors from flagging the text.
- False positive
- When an AI detector wrongly labels human writing as AI-generated.
Frequently asked questions
How much does QuillBot Premium cost?
$99.95 a year (about $8.33 a month), $39.95 every three months (about $13.31 a month) or $19.95 month-to-month. Prices may be shown in your local currency.
Is QuillBot free to use?
Yes. The grammar checker and citation generator are free with no limits, and the paraphraser (125 words), summarizer (1,200 words), AI detector (6 scans a day) and translator are free with caps. The plagiarism checker needs Premium.
Can I get a refund from QuillBot?
Only where the law requires it, according to QuillBot's help centre. Buyers in the EEA and UK can withdraw within 14 days. App-store purchases must be refunded through Apple or Google.
Can I pause QuillBot Premium?
Yes, for 30, 60 or 90 days, if you bought it on the website. Your renewal date moves back by the paused days. Team Plan and app-store subscriptions cannot be paused.
Does QuillBot have a team or student discount?
It has a Team Plan with 10% to 30% off per seat depending on team size, billed yearly. QuillBot's pricing pages do not list a separate student discount; the yearly plan is the cheapest way for one person to buy Premium.
Sources
Every fact on this page comes from public information. Vendor figures are labelled as vendor claims.
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