CheckIfItIsAI

The detectors, one by one

Accuracy figures in this industry are almost all vendor-reported and almost never reproducible. We label which claims come from the vendor and which limits are documented.

Turnitin AI DetectionTurnitintext

Students have no way to check their own work before submission — the biggest source of anxiety in this niche

GPTZeroGPTZerotext

Score moves noticeably on lightly edited text

Originality.AIOriginality.AItext

No free tier makes casual verification impossible

Copyleaks AI DetectorCopyleakstext

The headline accuracy figure is vendor-reported and not independently reproduced

Grammarly AI DetectorGrammarlytext

Gives a coarse percentage with little explanation

QuillBot AI DetectorQuillBot (Course Hero)textimage

Same company sells the paraphraser that is used to defeat detectors

Scribbr AI DetectorScribbrtext

Free tier is capped

ZeroGPTZeroGPTtextimage

No published methodology

Winston AIWinston AItextimage

Subscription required beyond the trial

Pangram LabsPangram Labstext

Smaller product surface

Sapling AI DetectorSaplingtext

Built as a side feature of a writing-assistant product

Hive AI-Generated Content DetectionHiveimagetext

API-first — not aimed at individuals

SightengineSightengineimage

Image only

Google SynthID DetectorGoogle DeepMindimagetext

Only detects content from Google models. Silence means nothing about Midjourney, DALL·E or Stable Diffusion

C2PA / Content CredentialsC2PA (Adobe, Microsoft, OpenAI, and others)image

Stripped by most social platforms on upload — absence proves nothing