QuillBot vs Grammarly

All you fantastic (and soon-to-be fantastic) writers out there know you need the best writing tools if you want to create writing that’s fluent, error-free, and original. So you’ve been asking: Which is better, QuillBot or Grammarly?

In this article, we break it down for you. Read on to learn about the key features of these two tools, how they compare, their price points, and who should use them.

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QuillBot features and overview

QuillBot is centered around improving your writing holistically, rather than correcting errors. Our AI has analyzed millions of existing texts, and learned how to offer suggestions that help you write clearly and impactfully.

Our founders initially developed QuillBot to assist with paraphrasing. Since then, its features have expanded. It now offers the following:

• Paraphraser rephrases your text in a variety of styles. It offers two free modes (Standard and Fluency) plus seven Premium modes and unlimited Custom modes. Currently, Paraphraser works in over 25 languages.
• Summarizer helps you save time by condensing long texts into a list of key sentences or a single paragraph.
• Grammar Checker corrects errors in English, German, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.
• Translate converts text into 45+ languages.
• Plagiarism Checker scans a text to identify content that’s not original and helps add missing citations.
• Citation Generator automatically cites sources in hundreds of citation styles, generates bibliographies, and allows you to save and organize your citations.
• PDF editor allows you to edit PDFs online from any device. You can use this tool for highlighting, adding images or textboxes, signing documents, and more.
• Word Counter displays the number of words and characters in your text, lets you choose whether to count spaces, and shows character limits for different social media platforms.
• AI Detector identifies AI-generated content in writing, featuring paragraph-level feedback and a four-way classification system.
• AI Humanizer can quickly and easily refine and humanize AI outputs to improve flow and style.
• AI Chat is your conversational partner to help with brainstorming, content generation, problem-solving, and more.

Within these tools, you’ll find even more helpful features, such as the option to:

• Select from American, British, Canadian, or Australian English
• Adjust your tone to connect with your audience
• Eliminate contractions and/or passive voice
• Determine whether you want more or fewer synonym suggestions
• Prevent specific terms from changing in Paraphraser

When it comes to creating your best work yet, QuillBot has the tools to help you with every step of the writing process.

QuillBot’s Paraphraser

QuillBot pros

• Robust free version, with access to all tools except the Plagiarism Checker
• Seamless integration with Google Chrome, Microsoft Word, iOS and Android, Firefox, and Safari
• Multilingual support
• Team plan with team style guide and dictionary

QuillBot cons

Free accounts are subject to the following limitation:

• 125 words at a time for paraphrasing
• 1,200 words at a time for summarizing
• 5,000 words at a time for translating
• 50 prompts per day for AI Chat

Some features, such as recommended rewrites, are only for Premium accounts. However, with a Premium account, you don’t have to work with these limitations. By upgrading to Premium, you unlock the full power of QuillBot.

Grammarly features and overview

While Grammarly offers many features, its core focus has been spelling, punctuation, and grammar checking. It’s a great tool for spotting mistakes such as typos and commonly confused words. Recently, Grammarly has integrated AI tools into its offerings, so you can now paraphrase and generate AI text with its tool.

Grammarly’s core tools include:

• Grammar checker
• Plagiarism checker
• AI detector
• AI humanizer
• Citation generator
• Paraphrasing tool
• Word counter
• AI grader

Grammarly currently only supports English (American, British, Canadian, Australian, or Indian).

Grammarly’s grammar checker

Grammarly pros

• Inclusivity settings, which can help reduce bias in your writing
• Tone insights
• Enterprise plan for teams
• App and browser integrations

Grammarly cons

• Free version requires login
• Free version only allows access to grammar checker and an AI chat
• Even Premium accounts have limits on the use of certain AI features, unlike QuillBot’s website features
• Only works for English

QuillBot vs Grammarly

Now that we’ve looked at each writing tool on its own, let’s compare their pricing structures, accuracy, and features.

Pricing

When it comes to pricing, there’s a big difference between QuillBot and Grammarly. They both offer affordable plans for individuals and teams. But as you can see in the table below, QuillBot’s group plan costs less, and so do its Premium plan options.

Accuracy

We tested QuillBot’s and Grammarly’s grammar checkers with a passage that contained 20 errors. QuillBot was able to identify and fix all 20 errors, while Grammarly only corrected 11.

Additionally, we found that QuillBot performs much better than Grammarly in identifying errors in the British English variant. QuillBot identified 18 of 20 errors, while Grammarly identified only 11.

Both tools’ recommendations were accurate, but QuillBot was better at identifying errors, an important distinction when you want your writing to be as accurate as possible.

Feature comparison

The table below shows how QuillBot and Grammarly compare at a glance.

Who uses QuillBot or Grammarly?

Millions of people use tools like QuillBot and Grammarly to refine their writing and increase their productivity. Below, we’ll get into some specific use cases.

AI content generation

If you’re struggling with writer’s block or can’t seem to organize your thoughts, both tools can create an outline, complete your sentence or paragraph, suggest the next sentence, and more based on what you’ve already written.

But QuillBot allows its writers to use this feature more extensively. Grammarly limits free accounts to 100 prompts per month, and Premium accounts to 1,000 prompts per month. Meanwhile, QuillBot allows free accounts 50 prompts per day (totaling about 1,500 a month!), while Premium accounts get unlimited access to this feature. As you can see, even QuillBot’s free plan offers more generative AI access than Grammarly’s paid plan.

Academic writing

Both QuillBot and Grammarly are helpful for students and educators alike. They are both excellent at making text more concise and formal, checking for plagiarism, and citing sources. But QuillBot also offers a more robust Citation Generator, which allows you to create, save, and organize entire bibliographies.

Business writing

Grammarly is used for creating content that is inclusive, on-brand, and able to connect with the target audience. But for professionals looking to optimize their writing for SEO, QuillBot may be a better choice. Here, QuillBot’s Freeze Words tool comes in handy. It lets you specify words that you don’t want to be changed, such as keywords.

Both QuillBot and Grammarly offer group plans for businesses. For example, QuillBot’s Team Plan comes with a team dictionary and team style guide to streamline collaborative workflows and improve consistency across content creators.

Longform writing

Authors of longer pieces, such as books and white papers, can benefit greatly from both tools’ error-correcting, wordsmithing, and AI generation features.

Language learning

Multilingual writers can find value in QuillBot’s Fluency mode, which is free in Paraphraser. While Grammarly does offer fluency suggestions, they are available to Premium users only.

QuillBot also offers translation capabilities, and allows writers to view translations side-by-side with their original text. Additionally, QuillBot offers multilingual options in many of their tools.

On the other hand, Grammarly focuses primarily on English and lacks the same multilingual capabilities. However, they do have one advantage in that they offer the additional option of Indian English, while QuillBot only has American, British, Canadian, and Australian English.

Which is better, QuillBot or Grammarly?

While both QuillBot and Grammarly offer quality recommendations and a wide array of products to assist in any writing task, we believe QuillBot is the better choice. With QuillBot, you can access most features for free and can try them out without signing in. And QuillBot’s Premium plan is less expensive than Grammarly’s.

Additionally, QuillBot’s multilingual support means you can have support for your writing in your second (or third or fourth) language.

Isn’t it great to live in a time with so many amazing writing tools? Try QuillBot for free today and see what it can do for you.

Frequently asked questions about QuillBot vs Grammarly

Which is better: QuillBot or Grammarly?

It depends on the type of writing you’re using it for. You may love QuillBot if you need a wide range of writing tools, do a lot of research, get distracted easily, or write in languages other than English. If you’re looking mainly for help with revision and tone adjustments, Grammarly may be what you want.

What other tool is QuillBot compared to besides Grammarly?

QuillBot can also be compared to Wordtune, Jasper AI, and Rewriter Tools.

What is the difference between QuillBot, Grammarly, and ChatGPT?

The difference is in their areas of focus:

• QuillBot began as a paraphraser and now offers a variety of tools to support your entire writing process, including AI Chat.
• Grammarly is primarily a grammar, spelling, and punctuation checker that has evolved to offer other revision capabilities.
• ChatGPT is primarily for generating text, not strengthening your own work.

Generative tools like ChatGPT can be helpful resources, but it’s important not to pass ChatGPT outputs off as your own work. This can be detected using an AI detector.