AutoCrit pricing has two tiers: a Free Forever plan at $0 and AutoCrit Pro at $30 a month, or $15 a month billed annually ($180 a year). Pro unlocks every editing report, Story Analyzer+, the AI beta readers, Market Fuel and EPUB and PDF export.
Every figure below comes from AutoCrit’s official pricing page, checked on 6 October 2026, and from the checkout pages it links to. Prices change, so confirm there before you buy.
In this breakdown, you’ll get:
- Both plans side by side, with monthly and annual costs
- What the free plan really lets you do, and what it locks
- What editing one manuscript costs on AutoCrit versus a human editor
- An honest section on where AutoCrit beats Chapter, and where it doesn’t
Here are the plans.
How Much Does AutoCrit Cost?
AutoCrit costs $0 on Free Forever or $30 a month for Pro. Paying yearly drops Pro to $15 a month, charged as $180 once a year, which is half the $360 you’d pay over twelve monthly bills. Checkout is in US dollars.
| Plan | Price | Billed | Editing tools | Story Analyzer+ and beta readers | EPUB/PDF export |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free Forever | $0 | Never | Adverbs, Word Choice, Readability | No | No |
| Pro Monthly | $30/month | Monthly | 25+ tools and reports | Yes | Yes |
| Pro Annual | $15/month | $180 yearly | 25+ tools and reports | Yes | Yes |
One quirk if you visit the page: the price cards animate. They briefly show inflated numbers such as “$300” and “$500” before settling on $30 and $15. The checkout pages confirm the real charges: $30.00 monthly and $180.00 yearly.
What Do You Get on the AutoCrit Free Plan?
The AutoCrit free plan gives you a full writing platform with no word limits, digital noteboards and cards for planning, and three editing tools: Adverbs, Word Choice and Readability. No card is needed to sign up.
That’s a real writing space, not a timed demo. You can draft a whole novel in it.
What it locks is the editing that most people come to AutoCrit for:
- The Summary Report and overall AutoCrit Score
- Genre comparisons against published books
- Pacing, Dialogue, Repetition and Strong Writing reports
- Story Analyzer+, the automated alpha and beta readers, and Market Fuel
- EPUB and print PDF export
So Free tells you whether you like the interface. It won’t tell you whether your pacing sags in act two.
What Does AutoCrit Pro Include?
AutoCrit Pro includes everything in Free plus 25+ interactive editing tools and advanced reports. The pricing page lists the same features for monthly and annual billing. The only difference is how you pay.
Pro adds:
- Line editing reports: pacing, sentence variation, dialogue tags, passive indicators, showing vs telling, clichés, filler words, repeated words and phrases
- Story Analyzer+: feedback on premise, conflict, characters, timeline, foreshadowing, POV, tropes and story beats, plus full series analysis
- Automated alpha and beta readers: 20+ ready-made reader avatars, or one you build yourself
- Market Fuel: market analysis, back-cover copy, search optimization and promotional copy
- Formatting: custom templates, front matter and EPUB or print PDF export
- Community: a private member forum, workshops and Q&As, plus member discounts on AutoCrit’s paid author services
Guided editing covers eight fiction genres and eight nonfiction categories, from romance and horror to memoir and business. For a full feature walkthrough, read our AutoCrit review.
Does AutoCrit Have a Free Trial or Refund Policy?
AutoCrit has no free trial of Pro on its pricing page. Free Forever is the trial. The AutoCrit FAQ says there are no minimum membership terms, so you can cancel any time and reactivate later with the same email.
What we couldn’t verify: a published refund or money-back guarantee. Neither the pricing page nor the FAQ states one as of 6 October 2026. Before you buy the $180 annual plan, ask AutoCrit support about refunds and get the answer in writing.
Is AutoCrit Pro Monthly or Annual Better Value?
Annual is better value if you’ll edit for more than six months. At $30 a month, six months costs $180, the same as a full year on the annual plan. Break-even sits at exactly month six.
Editing tends to come in bursts, though. You might run a manuscript through every report for six weeks, then go back to drafting the next book for months.
If that’s your rhythm, monthly billing wins. Two months of intensive editing costs $60, then you cancel. Since AutoCrit doesn’t lock you in, you can rejoin for the next book.
What Does It Really Cost to Edit a Book With AutoCrit?
The real cost depends on how many editing passes your book needs. Software bills by time, while a human editor bills by word. Here’s how one 80,000-word novel compares.
| Scenario | Cost |
|---|---|
| Try the interface and three basic tools | $0 (Free Forever) |
| One intensive two-month edit on AutoCrit Pro | $60 |
| Six months of Pro, monthly | $180 |
| A year of Pro, annual | $180 |
| Two years of Pro, annual | $360 |
| Human developmental edit, fiction (3.0–3.5¢/word) | ~$2,400–$2,800 |
| Human copyedit, fiction (2.0–2.7¢/word) | ~$1,600–$2,160 |
The human editing rates come from the Editorial Freelancers Association rate chart. Software is far cheaper, but it isn’t a substitute for an editor’s judgement. Our guide to how much a book editor costs covers the full range.
AutoCrit also sits mid-pack among editing tools. As of 6 October 2026, ProWritingAid’s pricing page lists Premium at $120 a year or $399 lifetime. Fictionary’s pricing page lists StoryTeller at $19 a month or $168 a year, with a 7-day free trial. See our ProWritingAid vs AutoCrit and AutoCrit vs Fictionary comparisons for the feature trade-offs.
Where AutoCrit Beats Chapter
We build Chapter, so read this with that in mind. The two tools do different jobs. AutoCrit analyzes and edits a manuscript you wrote. Chapter writes the manuscript with you. On several counts, AutoCrit is simply the better buy.
1. It edits your own words. If you’ve already drafted a novel by hand, Chapter has nothing to analyze. It runs no reports on a manuscript you wrote elsewhere. AutoCrit’s pacing, dialogue and repetition reports are built for exactly that file.
2. It has a real free plan. We don’t. Chapter has no free tier and no free trial. AutoCrit’s Free Forever plan gives you an unlimited writing space and three editing tools for $0, permanently.
3. It’s cheaper to try for a single edit. One month of Pro is $30, less than a third of Chapter’s $97. If all you need is one focused editing pass, AutoCrit costs less.
4. It keeps your book “AI-assisted,” not “AI-generated.” Amazon KDP’s content guidelines treat AI used to edit or refine your own writing as assisted, which needs no disclosure. Text that Chapter generates counts as AI-generated, and you must disclose it, even after heavy edits. (AutoCrit’s Inspiration Studio can also generate text, so this holds only if you stick to its editing reports.)
5. It does deeper diagnostic work. Genre comparisons, word frequency, POV consistency and showing-vs-telling flags are editing diagnostics. Chapter focuses on structure and drafting, not line-by-line scoring of finished prose.
Why Chapter Is Still Our Pick for Most Authors
Our Pick — Chapter
Most authors searching for editing software don’t yet have a finished draft to edit. Chapter gets you there. It plans your book’s structure, then writes the complete manuscript, fiction or nonfiction, chapter by chapter. You pay $97 once, and that covers two books.
Best for: authors who are stuck before the editing stage and need a complete, structured first draft Pricing: $97 one time, 2 books included (fiction or nonfiction), 30-day money-back guarantee Why we built it: an editing tool can only improve a book that exists, and most books never reach the end of the first draft.
Here’s why it earns the top spot for most readers of this post:
- It solves the earlier problem. AutoCrit can’t score a manuscript you haven’t written. Chapter produces the full draft that editing tools need.
- No clock. Two years of AutoCrit Pro costs $360. Chapter is $97 once, whether your book takes three months or two years.
- A stated refund. Chapter has a 30-day money-back guarantee. AutoCrit doesn’t publish one.
- Proof at scale. More than 2,147 authors have used Chapter to create over 5,000 books, and it’s been featured in USA Today and the New York Times.
The honest answer is that many authors end up using both. Draft in Chapter, then run the manuscript through an editing tool or a human editor. Our guide on how to edit an AI-written book walks through that workflow, and Chapter vs AutoCrit compares the two directly.
Read our Chapter review for its limitations, or Chapter’s pricing explained for the $97 in detail. You can see the plans for nonfiction and fiction on chapter.pub. Still weighing editors? See the best AutoCrit alternatives.
FAQ
How much does AutoCrit cost?
AutoCrit costs $0 on the Free Forever plan, $30 a month for Pro Monthly, or $15 a month on Pro Annual, billed as $180 a year. These figures come from AutoCrit’s official pricing page and checkout, checked on 6 October 2026. Both Pro plans include the same features.
Is AutoCrit free?
AutoCrit has a Free Forever plan with a full writing platform, no word limits, noteboards and three editing tools: Adverbs, Word Choice and Readability. The Summary Report, 25+ advanced reports, Story Analyzer+, AI beta readers and EPUB export all require AutoCrit Pro.
Does AutoCrit offer a free trial of Pro?
AutoCrit does not list a free trial of Pro on its pricing page as of October 2026. The Free Forever plan works as the trial. AutoCrit’s FAQ says there are no minimum membership terms, so you can cancel Pro any time and reactivate later.
Is AutoCrit worth $30 a month?
AutoCrit is worth $30 a month if you have a finished manuscript and want detailed line-level reports during an intensive editing burst. It’s poor value if you’re still drafting, or if you’d use it for a few weeks a year on the $180 annual plan.
Is AutoCrit cheaper than Chapter?
AutoCrit is cheaper for a short editing pass: one month of Pro costs $30. Chapter is cheaper over time: $97 once for two books, versus $360 for two years of AutoCrit Pro Annual. They do different jobs, though. AutoCrit edits your draft, and Chapter writes it.
