QuillBot pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
QuillBot (quillbot.com) is a AI writing tool. One Premium plan billed monthly, quarterly, semi-annually or yearly; Team plan sold per seat per year with volume tiers.. Free plan: Paraphrase up to 100 words at a time in 2 modes, basic grammar fixes, humanizer up to 100 words, 1,200-word summaries, limited AI detector..
What QuillBot costs
- 1 writer: $19.95/mo (Premium $19.95/mo on monthly billing; unlimited paraphrasing, so the 20,000-word rule is met.)
- 5 writers: $37.48/mo (Team plan, 2-10 seats: $89.95/seat/yr x 5 = $449.75/yr / 12 = $37.48/mo (annual-only plan). 5 monthly Premium subs would be $99.75.)
Plan compared: Premium, monthly billing. Cheapest paid plan for one writer, billed monthly (plans metered by words or credits must include at least 20,000 AI words a month), and the total for 5 users on the cheapest self-serve option that covers them. Free plans are not counted; annual-only plans are divided by 12.
What QuillBot does
Core: Grammar & spelling checks, Paraphrasing & rewriting.
Important: Sourced writing & citations (partly), Plagiarism checking (partly), AI detection & humanizer, Multilingual checking, Works in your apps.
Also has: Style, clarity & readability (partly), Long-form drafting (partly), Marketing copy templates (partly), Brand voice & style guide (partly), Academic writing checks (partly), Mobile apps & keyboard, AI chat assistant (partly), Team workspace & admin (partly).
QuillBot price hikes
- QuillBot cut its free paraphraser limit from 125 to 100 words · Sep 2026
In September 2026 the free plan's paraphrase limit dropped from 125 to 100 words, and the free humanizer went from 125 words and 6 uses a day to 100 words with "limited usage". - QuillBot raised Premium from $14.95 to $19.95 a month · Mar 2022
Between 18 January and 25 March 2022 QuillBot raised every Premium term: monthly $14.95 to $19.95, semi-annual $59.95 to $79.95, annual $79.95 to $99.95.
Alternatives to QuillBot
QuillBot is the cheapest AI writing tool we track at 1 writer. The others:
QuillBot alternatives: 2 AI writing tools compared, at every size.
Other kinds of products that cover part of QuillBot
- ChatGPT (AI assistants): covers 65% of QuillBot; missing or partial: Grammar & spelling checks (partly), Paraphrasing & rewriting (partly), Plagiarism checking, AI detection & humanizer, Multilingual checking (partly)
- Claude (AI assistants): covers 65% of QuillBot; missing or partial: Grammar & spelling checks (partly), Paraphrasing & rewriting (partly), Plagiarism checking, AI detection & humanizer, Multilingual checking (partly)
- Gemini (AI assistants): covers 65% of QuillBot; missing or partial: Grammar & spelling checks (partly), Paraphrasing & rewriting (partly), Plagiarism checking, AI detection & humanizer, Multilingual checking (partly)
Every change we logged
- Sep 2026 · Free tier cut: In September 2026 the free plan's paraphrase limit dropped from 125 to 100 words, and the free humanizer went from 125 words and 6 uses a day to 100 words with "limited usage".
- Mar 2022 · Price increase: Between 18 January and 25 March 2022 QuillBot raised every Premium term: monthly $14.95 to $19.95, semi-annual $59.95 to $79.95, annual $79.95 to $99.95.
Sources
Pricing page: quillbot.com/upgrade. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. The live page is behind Cloudflare, so prices come from the price JSON embedded in Wayback snapshots of quillbot.com/upgrade and /upgrade/teams (2 Oct 2026). Monthly price tests ($21.95-$24.95) appear in the page config but were not live. History is from Wayback snapshots, 2021-2026; the 2022 hike date is only narrowed to between 18 Jan and 25 Mar 2022.