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The right Grammarly alternative depends on the job. LanguageTool suits many languages, QuillBot and Trinka suit students, Harper keeps text on your device, ProWritingAid handles long documents, and Microsoft Editor and Harper are free to use. This guide matches each tool to a need, with free limits and prices taken from vendor pages as of October 2026.

Grammarly, an AI-powered writing assistant, is still the default grammar checker, but readers look elsewhere for five reasons: the price, a free version with a monthly AI prompt cap, checking that centers on English, text that leaves the device, and jobs a checker does not cover, such as rewriting a paragraph. A flat list does not help with any of that, so the sections below start from the need, then show the numbers.

Every price and limit comes from the vendor’s own page, read in October 2026 and listed as this article’s sources. Vendors change plans often and show different prices by country, so treat the figures as a dated snapshot and confirm them on the vendor page before you pay.

Which alternative to Grammarly fits your writing needs?

Start with the need that matters most to you. Each line names the tool to try first.

• Free, no card: Microsoft Editor or Harper as a no-cost Grammarly replacement for spelling and grammar. LanguageTool is the next step up for more than one language.
• Students: Trinka for academic and technical writing, QuillBot for paraphrasing and summaries.
• Multilingual: LanguageTool, at 30+ languages. DeepL Write covers nine.
• Privacy first: Harper runs on your device, so nothing is sent to a server.
• Cheaper: LanguageTool, Hemingway’s Editor Plus and Wordtune Advanced all list annual prices below Pro’s $144 a year.
• Rewriting and tone: Wordtune and QuillBot.
• Long documents and fiction: ProWritingAid. Readability: Hemingway Editor.

No single tool wins every row, which is why the choice starts with the job and not with a ranking.

Where Grammarly Premium and Pro still win

A fair guide has to say what you give up. As of October 2026, the vendor’s plans page shows what the paid plan bundles in one place. Its FAQ says Pro includes all the advanced writing features that Grammarly Premium had, such as tone suggestions and full-sentence rewrites, and a few of those items are hard to match with a single tool.

• Plagiarism and AI-text checks in the same plan. Pro and India Plus list plagiarism detection and AI-generated text detection next to grammar, tone and full-sentence rewrites. Trinka and QuillBot list plagiarism checks too, usually with credits or monthly word caps.
• Tone and rewrites on every paid plan, with 2,000 AI prompts per member per month. The Free plan lists 100 AI prompts per month.
• One product from Free to Enterprise. Enterprise adds roles and permissions and single sign-on, and the FAQ mentions a SOC 2 (Type 2) report. Teams that need that paperwork often stay.
• A very large user base. The page says it is trusted by over 40 million people.

The entry-level plan checks six languages according to the Superhuman suite page on its support site, against 30+ for LanguageTool. If none of those points bother you, Grammarly is great for general writing, and the tools below are for readers who do care.

One note on pricing: the support pages show two structures, because the product is folding into the Superhuman suite. The older Pro page lists $144 a year ($12 a month on average) and $30 billed monthly. The suite page lists $12 a member per month billed annually and $15 billed monthly. The annual figure is the same on both, so it is the safe number to compare.

Alternatives comparison: free limits and prices

The table lists what the free version of each tool allows and what its paid plan costs. Every figure was read on the vendor’s own page in October 2026. Where no price could be verified, the cell says so.

Two cautions before you compare rows. First, free limits are counted in different units: words for QuillBot and Trinka, characters for LanguageTool and DeepL Write, daily rewrites for Wordtune. Second, a limit of 500 words or 2,000 characters still works well for emails and online writing such as short posts. It is the long document where the paid plan starts to matter.

Free alternatives to Grammarly: what each free version gives you

Every free option falls into one of two groups: a checker with no stated cap, or a version with limits that fit short writing.

A free Grammarly alternative with no stated cap

Among the Grammarly alternatives for writers, Harper is free and open source under the Apache-2.0 license, according to its site (writewithharper.com, October 2026). It checks English only, covering American, British, Canadian, Australian and Indian dialects, and runs on your device with no account. Microsoft Editor is a free checker for spelling and basic grammar with a Microsoft account, in the Edge and Chrome extension, Word for the web and Outlook.com.

Grammarly Free and other versions with a limit you will notice

The rest carry the limits in the table, such as LanguageTool’s 2,000 characters per text field and Trinka’s 5,000 words a month with grammar in Lite mode only. Wordtune’s Basic plan lists unlimited spelling and grammar checks next to its daily rewrite cap.

Free, but not a grammar checker

Hemingway Editor’s free web editor scores readability and highlights wordy sentences and passive voice, but does not fix grammar. The vendor’s billing FAQ says the paid Editor Plus adds the advanced grammar checker and AI rewrites.

A practical rule: one writing tool for grammar and one for style. Microsoft Editor or Harper for errors, plus Hemingway for readability, covers most everyday writing and keeps the free tier enough for business writing such as emails and reports.

Grammarly alternatives for students and academic writing

Students need low cost, citations, style rules and respect for school rules on AI help. These tools differ a lot on those points, so a pick-by-need list helps more than a ranking.

• Trinka lists corrections for APA, AMA, ACS, AGU and IEEE style on its Premium plans, plus a citation checker and formatter that use credits. The free Basic plan gives one plagiarism score a month (as of October 2026). It suits academic writers who follow one of those guides, including anyone doing essay writing for a course.
• QuillBot is the common choice for paraphrasing and summarizing. Premium lists unlimited paraphrasing and 9 unique modes, and its Premium page also lists citation creation.
• LanguageTool lists an education discount of up to 20% on Premium for students, teachers and professors who qualify.
• Microsoft Editor includes a similarity checker with Microsoft 365, which compares a document with text found online. The basic checker is free.

Two student cautions. First, a tool that rewrites whole sentences can change your meaning, so read every change. Second, many courses have rules on AI help. Read yours before you paste an assignment into any of these AI tools. Good writing still needs your own read-through.

A multilingual alternative: grammar and spell checking beyond English

If you want a checker like Grammarly for grammar and spell checking in languages other than English, language coverage is the deciding factor. The vendors’ own pages give these counts as of October 2026:

• LanguageTool: more than 30 languages and dialects, led by English, Spanish, German, French, Dutch and Portuguese. English has six varieties (US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa). The paid plan adds more than 20,000 extra checks for English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Polish and Portuguese.
• DeepL Write: Chinese, English (UK and US), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (two variants) and Spanish, according to its Help Center.
• Microsoft Editor: basic guidance in more than 20 languages and spelling suggestions in more than 80.
• QuillBot: grammar correction in 6 languages and paraphrasing in 23 languages, according to its Premium page.
• The reference tool: the free version lists writing without mistakes in 6 languages, and the paid plans list fluent writing in English.
• Harper: English only for now, with other languages described as coming.

For most multilingual writers, LanguageTool is the first to test, because it lists all languages and dialects for free. The LanguageTool Premium page has the full comparison between the free and paid plans. If you also translate, the DeepL group buy on RazzTools is a separate product from DeepL Write Pro, and DeepL’s Help Center says the paid Write version is not included in a DeepL Pro plan alone.

A privacy-first choice: where your text goes

Any of these reads everything you type, so it is fair to ask where the text goes. This section reports only what the vendors state on their own pages (October 2026).

• Harper: every check runs locally, with no cloud round trip, no telemetry and no AI model in the loop.
• LanguageTool: its site says the browser add-on does not store text, and the Premium FAQ says texts written with the add-on are usually not saved, while texts in its editor are saved to your account. Its privacy policy says its parent company, Learneo, does not use inputs from LanguageTool users to train its models.
• Hemingway’s Editor Plus: the vendor says it does not store your documents and that neither Hemingway nor its AI providers use your writing to train models.
• Trinka: the Premium plans list advanced data privacy, data auto-deletion after 90 days and no use of data for AI training.
• DeepL Write Pro: the Help Center says Pro users get maximum data security, so texts are not stored while you are logged in.
• The reference tool: the plans page points to its SOC 2 (Type 2) report for security and privacy controls.

Ask three questions: does the check run on your device or on a server, does the vendor store your text, and does it train models on it? If a vendor page does not answer, treat the answer as unknown, and for client documents ask your own policy owner.

A cheaper alternative to Grammarly: yearly cost side by side

Grammarly Pro is listed at $144 a year, which is $12 a month on average (support page, October 2026). Where a vendor lists a monthly price it costs more, so the annual figure is the fair comparison. LanguageTool costs less than Grammarly at €59.89 a year (€4.90 a month on average; the 2-year plan is €99.90). Hemingway’s Editor Plus is $100 a year ($8.33 a month, or $10 billed monthly). Wordtune Advanced is cheaper than Grammarly at $6.99 a month billed annually, with an offer price of $4.89 shown on the page (Unlimited is $9.99, offer price $6.99; no separate monthly-billed price was read). QuillBot Premium is $8.33 a month billed annually, and Microsoft 365 Personal is $9.99 a month, for the advanced Editor features plus the rest of the suite.

Price is not value, though. A $6.99 plan that does not check your language is worse than a $12 plan that does. Count the features you will use, not the cheapest line. A shared seat keeps the same product at a lower cost; see “Shared seat or your own plan” below.

Rupee prices and local payment in India

Many readers in India look for a cheaper option. These vendor pages were read from an Indian connection in October 2026, and vendors show prices by visitor location, so your own page may differ.

• Grammarly: the plans page showed a plan labeled new and exclusive to India. Plus costs ₹392 per member per month when billed annually (about ₹4,704 a year, calculated here), or ₹1,000 when billed monthly. The page says it is available only through local payment methods, and its FAQ says Plus accepts local payment methods or cards. Plus lists the same rewrite, tone and plagiarism features as Pro, with 2,000 AI prompts, but only basic customer support.
• ProWritingAid: the pricing page showed rupee prices: Premium at ₹1,650 a month billed monthly, ₹550 a month billed yearly (₹6,600), or ₹21,945 as a one-time payment. Premium Pro was ₹1,980 monthly and ₹660 a month billed yearly (₹7,920).
• Wordtune, QuillBot, LanguageTool and Hemingway Editor: dollar or euro prices only, with no rupee page. QuillBot’s FAQ lists card and PayPal, and LanguageTool’s page lists PayPal and credit card.
• Harper: free, and its English support includes an Indian English dialect.
• Microsoft Editor, DeepL Write and Trinka: a rupee price could not be confirmed on the vendor pages, so none is given.

The short version for India: Plus is the lowest-priced way to buy the vendor’s own features, if its local payment methods work for you. Among the other tools, only one shows rupee prices (see above), and Harper is the free choice with Indian English support. RazzTools shows prices in US dollars or Bangladeshi taka, not rupees, and accepts cards, PayPal, bKash, Nagad, Rocket, Upay, bank transfer and crypto.

Each tool in more detail: spelling, readability and AI writing help

LanguageTool, QuillBot and long-form editing

LanguageTool is similar to Grammarly in its core job. It checks spelling, simple punctuation and some writing issues for free, and Premium adds a style guide for custom rules, with a 14-day money-back guarantee listed on its Premium page. QuillBot Premium lists custom modes, a 100 MB document store and use on up to 10 devices at a time. ProWritingAid is the tool for long-form writing, with writing analysis reports on readability, repeated words and style, custom rules and 40+ document types; refunds on yearly and one-time plans are possible within three days of purchase, and not on monthly plans, according to its pricing page. Fiction writers get tools such as Story Canvas and chapter critiques.

Wordtune, Hemingway Editor and Microsoft Editor

Wordtune suggests several ways to phrase a sentence and shifts tone for different writing styles; a three-day free trial is listed on the paid plans. Hemingway Editor is the simplest editing tool here, with a reading grade that shows the style of writing at a glance, and Editor Plus lists a two-week free trial and a team plan. Microsoft Editor is a free tool for people who write in Microsoft Word, Outlook and Edge, and its writing suggestions for clarity, conciseness and formality need Microsoft 365; the page says the premium version comes only with a Microsoft 365 subscription.

DeepL Write, Harper and Trinka

DeepL Write corrects grammar, spelling and punctuation; its limit is 2,000 characters for DeepL Pro users, and Write Pro removes it. Harper is a private proofreading tool with extensions for Chrome, Edge and Firefox, plugins for Obsidian, VS Code and WordPress, and a macOS desktop app; it has no AI model, so it is a checker and not a rewriting assistant. Trinka serves scholarly and technical work: paid tiers add style-guide corrections, file proofreading with tracked changes, a Word add-in and credit-based plagiarism and AI-detection tools.

How to test a grammar checker in Google Docs or your browser

1. Pick one real text of about 400 words, with a few errors left in.
2. Run it through each tool. Note how many real errors are caught and how many suggestions are wrong or change your meaning.
3. Check the limit and where it works. If the tool stops at 500 words or 2,000 characters, see whether that matches your usual document, and test it where you write: Google Docs, your email, a CMS or a phone.
4. Read the privacy page and compare the annual price in your own currency.

After two weeks, keep the tool whose suggestions you accepted most often, not the one with the longest feature list.

Shared seat or your own plan

If you are using Grammarly or want its features at a low price, a shared seat is one of the routes. RazzTools sells the Grammarly group buy at $1.99, and the same model covers QuillBot and Wordtune. A shared seat is one vendor account that several members use through the RazzTools browser extension, within fair-use limits that each tool page lists. The Writing & Copilots category shows the rest of the range.

Support runs every day from 8 AM to 3 AM Bangladesh time, and if what you buy does not work you get your money back or a replacement. A dedicated after-sale team of developers and support assistants handles problems. RazzTools is not affiliated with any of these vendors. Read the tool page for what your seat includes, and teams that need admin controls or single sign-on should look at the vendor’s own team plans.

Bottom line: which Grammarly alternative to pick

Match the tool to the need, then test it on your own text. Microsoft Editor or Harper are no-cost picks for English. LanguageTool suits several languages or a lower yearly price. QuillBot or Trinka suit students. ProWritingAid suits long documents and fiction, Hemingway Editor suits readability, and Wordtune suits rewriting and tone. Stay with Grammarly if you need plagiarism and AI-text checks in the same plan as tone and rewrites.

The best alternative to Grammarly is the one that fits your language, your document length and your privacy needs. All the figures above are a snapshot from October 2026, so check the vendor page for today’s number before you pay.

FAQ

What is the best free alternative to Grammarly?

For spelling and grammar in English, Microsoft Editor and Harper cost nothing and list no word cap. For several languages, LanguageTool checks 2,000 characters per text field. Pick by the language you write in and the length of your documents (vendor pages, October 2026).

Which Grammarly alternative is best for students?

Trinka is built for academic work and lists APA, AMA, ACS, AGU and IEEE style-guide corrections on its paid plans. QuillBot suits paraphrasing and summaries, and LanguageTool lists an education discount of up to 20%. Check your school’s rules on AI help first.

Is there an option that keeps my text private?

Harper runs on your device and sends nothing to a server. LanguageTool says its browser add-on does not store text, and Hemingway’s Editor Plus says it does not store documents or use writing to train models. Read each vendor’s privacy page before you paste sensitive text.

What is the cheapest option in India?

Grammarly’s own India-only Plus plan was listed at ₹392 per member per month billed annually in October 2026. Among other tools, Harper and Microsoft Editor are free. Most other vendors listed dollars or euros only.

Does Grammarly have a one-time payment plan?

No. Its support page lists monthly, quarterly and annual Pro subscriptions and says it does not offer gift subscriptions or one-time plans. ProWritingAid does sell a one-time-payment license, listed at ₹21,945 for Premium on the page as read from India.

Is LanguageTool as good as Grammarly?

It does the same core job, with more languages and a lower annual price, but the reference tool bundles tone, plagiarism and AI-text checks that LanguageTool does not list. Test both on the same 400-word text to see which suggestions you accept.