Writing · Head-to-head

Grammarly vs Wordtune

Grammarly (freemium, AI Score 7.8/10) vs Wordtune (freemium, AI Score 7/10). Side-by-side pricing, features, pros and cons, and which to pick.

The verdict

Pick Grammarly if…

→overall capability matters more than price (AI Score 7.8 vs 7)
→your primary use case is students writing to a rubric, and comms or support teams at companies with a house style guide, who need writing help inside email, docs and internal tools rather than in a separate chat window.

Try Grammarly →

Pick Wordtune if…

→your primary use case is non-native english writers and high-volume business writers who already produce drafts and want fast sentence-level rephrasing inline in gmail and docs, without composing a prompt every time.

Try Wordtune →

Spec	Grammarly	Wordtune
Category	Writing	Writing
Pricing model	freemium	freemium
Headline pricing	Free tier + Pro around $12/mo billed annually — check website for current pricing	Free tier + paid plans — check website for current pricing
Free tier	Yes — unlimited grammar, spelling and punctuation checks plus basic tone feedback, with generative AI prompts capped monthly	Yes — a permanently free tier with a daily cap on rewrites, core tone options and browser extension access. The cap is the main pressure point pushing regular users to a paid plan; verify the current daily limit on the site.
AI Score	7.8/10	7/10
Best for	Students writing to a rubric, and comms or support teams at companies with a house style guide, who need writing help inside email, docs and internal tools rather than in a separate chat window.	Non-native English writers and high-volume business writers who already produce drafts and want fast sentence-level rephrasing inline in Gmail and Docs, without composing a prompt every time.
Editor's pick	—	—
Use cases	content-creation productivity education	content-creation productivity education
Date added	2025-05-01	2026-04-30

Writing · freemium

✓Operates inside the apps and sites you already write in, so there is no copy-paste round trip to a chat window
✓Ships academic tooling general assistants skip: rubric-based grading, citation finding, plagiarism and AI-text detection
✓Enterprise style guides and brand tones enforce a defined house voice across an entire organization
✓The free tier is genuinely usable for grammar, spelling and basic tone rather than a crippled trial
✓Business tiers carry SOC 2 Type II compliance and commitments against training on customer data

×Generative quality trails frontier chatbots for anything longer than a paragraph or two
×The Superhuman rebrand splintered the lineup across Grammarly, Docs, Mail and Go, making it unclear what a given subscription actually covers
×Hard to justify a separate subscription when an existing ChatGPT or Claude plan already handles rewriting
×The always-on desktop and browser agent reads text across every app, which is a real privacy and resource consideration

Writing · freemium

✓Returns several alternative phrasings per highlighted sentence instead of one suggested fix, which makes it faster to pick a good option than prompting a chatbot
✓Summarize handles PDFs, long articles and YouTube videos, not just pasted text
✓Inline browser extension puts rewriting inside Gmail, Docs and LinkedIn rather than in a separate tab
✓Genuinely free usable tier — the cap is on volume, not on the core rewriting capability
✓Purpose-built interface beats general chat for high-frequency, low-stakes rewriting where prompt-writing is pure overhead

×Core capability is now table stakes — frontier assistants and bundled tools like Grammarly and Notion rewrite text just as well, often at no extra cost
×Weak at generating content from scratch; it needs you to have written something first
×Free tier's daily rewrite cap is restrictive enough that regular users effectively must upgrade
×Hard to justify as a separate subscription line item if you already pay for a general AI assistant

Updated 2026-08-10. Spec data sourced from official product pages and tracked in our public directory at /tools.