Free AI Detector.
No account, no games.
The full detector, free: scans up to 6,000 characters with honest 0 to 100 scores. No signup wall, no blurred results, no countdown timers.
Scores 40 to 69 are inconclusive. Never punish on a score alone.
Free without the asterisk
Search for a free AI detector and you will find a familiar pattern: the scan is free, but the verdict is blurred until you register. Or the first 200 words are free and your essay is 900. Or the result is free but sits under three banner ads and a newsletter modal. The tool on this page is the entire product: paste up to 6,000 characters, press scan, read the full verdict. There is no premium engine being withheld, because there is only one engine.
The honest trade is a daily fair-use limit per visitor. It exists to keep the service fast and to stop bulk scraping, not to push you toward a paid tier. Most people checking an essay, a couple of cover letters or a handful of drafts will never see it. If you have genuine volume needs, the planned API is the right shape for that, and the pricing page states plainly what paid tiers will and will not add.
What you get on every free scan
Every reading comes with the verdict chip, the inconclusive band drawn on the dial, and a one-line honesty note telling you how to act on the result. A free tool that hands out confident wrong answers is expensive; the goal here is the opposite. If a score surprises you, the right next step is rarely panic: read why detectors produce false positives and check the text against a second tool. Disagreement between detectors is information too.
When a free detector is enough, and when it is not
For spot checks, a free scan is exactly the right tool: one essay, one suspicious paragraph, one cover letter. For institutional enforcement it is not, and neither is any paid detector. Schools need documented processes, disclosed tools and human review, which we cover in what AI detector colleges use. Editorial teams running hundreds of drafts a week need batch tooling, which is API territory. Know which job you are hiring the tool for, and the free tier covers more of them than the certainty-theater vendors would like you to believe.
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Free. No account. Nothing stored.Frequently asked
What does free actually include?
Full scans up to 6,000 characters with the same engine and the same 0 to 100 score as every other scan on the site, plus a daily fair-use limit. Free is not a teaser tier here: the detector itself is the product.
Why is there a daily limit?
To keep the tool fast and free for everyone. Automated bulk scanning would otherwise crowd out real users. If you have a recurring high-volume need, the API page describes what is coming.
Do I need an account?
No. There is nothing to sign up for. Paste text, press scan, read the verdict. Nothing is stored, so an account would add no value for you and a liability for us.
Is there a word limit trick?
No. 6,000 characters is roughly 1,000 words per scan, and longer documents can be checked in sections. We do not blur results, hide verdicts behind email walls, or cap you mid-scan.