If you are moving off StealthWriter, your choices split three ways: another humanizer on a different price ladder, a plain writing tool plus your own editing, or a detector you run before you hand anything in. Which one fits depends on whether you still need the rewriting, or only the reassurance that came with it.
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Most tools in this category sell you a monthly pool of words. StealthWriter does not. It sells a number of runs per day, and caps how big each run can be. That single design decision explains most of the reasons people leave, and most of the reasons people stay.
StealthWriter's plans, as published on its own homepage (stealthwriter.ai, checked 16 August 2026):
| Plan | Price | Daily allowance | Words per input |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 10 humanizations/day, 10 AI scans/day | 1,000 |
| Starter | $20/mo ($200/year) | 50 humanizations/day, 50 AI scans/day | 5,000 |
| Plus | $50/mo ($500/year) | 150 humanizations/day, 150 AI scans/day | 5,000 |
| Pro | $100/mo ($1,000/year) | 350 humanizations/day, 350 AI scans/day | 5,000 |
| Scale | $400/mo ($4,000/year) | 2,000 humanizations/day | 5,000 |
The annual figures appear in the pricing FAQ on the same page. There is no separate /pricing URL: stealthwriter.ai/pricing returned HTTP 404 when checked on 16 August 2026, and the site's own sitemap lists 14 URLs with no pricing page among them.
A daily cap that resets is unusually generous if you work in short bursts and unusually punishing if you work in one long session. Ten free runs a day, every day, is more free usage than most tools in this category hand out. Fifty runs a day on Starter is far more than a student will use in a week and far less than an agency will use on a Monday.
There are four situations where switching would be a downgrade, and it is worth being straight about them.
You want to try before you pay, repeatedly. The free plan is not a one-time trial that expires. It is 10 humanizations and 10 AI scans every day at up to 1,000 words per input (stealthwriter.ai, checked 16 August 2026). If your actual need is a few hundred words a week, that plan may simply be enough, indefinitely, at no cost.
You want granular control over how much gets changed. StealthWriter's FAQ describes rewrite levels where "Lower levels (1-3) make minimal changes, while higher levels (7-10) rewrite more heavily" (stealthwriter.ai/faq, checked 16 August 2026). The homepage also describes a Deep Scan with sentence-by-sentence analysis and colour-coded highlights, and Alternative Rewrites that let you pick between options. If you like sitting in the driver's seat and choosing between candidate rewrites, that is a real feature set and it is not universal.
You need the tool to handle languages other than English. StealthWriter's FAQ states support for "Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, and more" (stealthwriter.ai/faq, checked 16 August 2026). Plenty of tools in the adjacent categories, including ours, are English-only. If you write in Portuguese, this is close to a dealbreaker and StealthWriter wins on it.
You are optimising for cost per run at volume. At $400/mo for 2,000 runs a day, the per-run cost is very low if you genuinely hit the ceiling. Few teams do, but if you do, the ladder is priced for you.
And a plain statement of scope. StealthWriter sells rewriting intended to make AI-generated text read as human. TextSight does not sell that and cannot replace it. If rewriting for detector outcomes is the job you need done, we are the wrong tool, and you should compare StealthWriter against other tools in that same category rather than against us.
Direction one: another humanizer. If the reason you are leaving is price, daily caps, or output quality, the honest answer is that you want a peer product, not a category change. Phrasly, Humbot, BypassGPT and Walter Writes all operate in this space. We have written separately about each, including where their own published terms are hard to verify. Read the vendor's own pricing and refund pages before you subscribe, not a review site's summary of them.
Direction two: write it yourself and edit harder. The most common quiet exit. People discover that the editing pass they were outsourcing (varying sentence length, cutting stock transitions, replacing generic examples with specific ones) is a skill, and once learned it does not carry a subscription. This costs nothing and is the only route that produces writing you can defend line by line.
Direction three: check, then fix the underlying draft. Run the text through a detector, see which sentences are scoring, rewrite those yourself for clarity. This is where TextSight sits.
TextSight is an AI content detector with a rewriter attached for clarity. The detector is an English-only ensemble built on DeBERTa, RoBERTa and ELECTRA. Scores under 30 read as "likely human-written", 30 to 69 as "mixed signals", and 70 or above as "likely AI-generated".
One caveat we state on every page: the detector carries a known false-positive bias against writers who learned English as a second language. If English is not your first language, treat a high score as a prompt to look at the sentences, not as a verdict.
Free accounts get 60 checks a day at up to 5,000 words, saved to history. Starter is $9.99/mo (or $7.49 on annual billing) for 200 checks a day, sentence-level analysis and PDF export. Pro at $19.99/mo ($14.99 annual) removes the daily cap and adds the Chrome extension, scan history and REST API. Business at $39.99/mo ($29.99 annual) adds teams and branded reports. Enterprise is $79.99/mo ($59.99 annual). File upload, URL scan and bulk scan are available across the paid tiers.
The comparison that matters: StealthWriter's Starter is $20/mo and rewrites for you. Our Starter is $9.99/mo and tells you which sentences are the problem. Those are different purchases. Cheaper is not the argument. Different job is.
A student with one essay due and no budget. StealthWriter's free plan, or our anonymous paste box for 3 checks a day at 1,000 words. Neither requires a card.
A non-native English speaker who keeps getting flagged. Be careful here. Detectors including ours are biased against you, so a high score may be wrong. StealthWriter's multilingual support is the better fit if you are drafting in another language first. If you are writing directly in English, sentence-level analysis is more useful to you than a rewrite, because it shows you which of your own habits trip the model.
A freelance writer with clients who ask for a report. PDF export on our Starter tier at $9.99/mo, or branded reports on Business. StealthWriter does not publish a client-reporting feature.
An agency running high volume. StealthWriter Plus or Pro if you need the rewriting. Our Pro tier if you need unmetered checking plus the REST API to wire it into an existing workflow.
A developer. StealthWriter's FAQ says an API is "Not at this time" and a browser extension is "Not yet" but on the roadmap (stealthwriter.ai/faq, checked 16 August 2026). Our REST API and Chrome extension both start at Pro.
All URLs below were checked on 16 August 2026.
TextSight pricing, quotas and feature tiers are our own published figures.
The deeper head-to-head: feature table, where GPTZero wins, where TextSight wins, and migration steps.
Read the comparePerplexity, burstiness, and transformer scoring explained, so you can read any detector's verdict critically.
Read the guideWhy detectors over-flag ESL and formal writing, and how sentence-level evidence helps you defend real work.
Read the guideThe full ranking with detection approach, pricing, and use-case fit side by side.
See the rankingStart with TextSight's free tier. No card, no signup, no commitment. Your first scan in about six seconds, with the evidence shown line by line.
Honest comparisons vs other tools.