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Detect AI-Written Text & Essays

Paste at least 50 words and get a likelihood, not a label. Measures word-choice and rhythm patterns typical of machine writing — clear likelihood report in one pass.

Runs in your browser · 10 credits a check (unlimited on any paid plan)

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What is AI text detection?

AI text detection estimates how likely a passage was written by a language model rather than a person. Paste at least 50 words and the check runs entirely inside your browser — the text is never uploaded — measuring word variety, sentence rhythm and how often stock machine phrasing appears. It returns one of three readings, likely human, possibly AI or likely AI, with a probability, a confidence level and the signals behind them. Each check costs 10 credits, and any paid plan makes them unlimited while it is active. The reading is a likelihood to weigh, never proof of authorship.

Accepts
Pasted text, from 50 words to 25,000 characters
Credits
10 credits a check (unlimited on any paid plan)
Returns
Likely human, possibly AI or likely AI — with a probability, a confidence level and the signals behind them
Where it runs
In your browser. The text is never uploaded, transmitted or stored

Updated August 20, 2026

Cite this page: https://imagera.ai/detect/ai-text-detection

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Detect AI-Written Text & Essays

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What a check gives you

The text never leaves your machine

The check is arithmetic that runs in your browser, so the passage you paste is never uploaded, never transmitted and never stored — not by us and not by anyone else. Nothing is written to your history either. That is worth knowing before you paste a student essay, an unpublished draft or a contract into any detector.

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Three readings, not a yes or a no

A result comes back as likely human, possibly AI, or likely AI, with a probability and a separate confidence level. The middle band exists because most real passages land there, and collapsing it into a verdict would be the single easiest way to make this tool harmful.

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It shows you its reasons

Alongside the score you get plain notes on what moved it — how much formulaic machine vocabulary the passage carried, and how uniform its sentence rhythm and word variety were. Reasons you can check against the writing in front of you are worth more than a percentage you have to take on trust.

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How the text check works, and where it is weak

An analyser cannot show you a before and after, so what follows is the mechanism and its limits, in plain terms.

What the check actually measures

It measures word-choice and rhythm patterns typical of machine writing. Two things, specifically. The first is vocabulary: how densely the passage uses the words and stock phrases that machine writing over-produces. The second is shape: the ratio of distinct words to total words, how much sentence length varies, and how many words appear exactly once. Human writing tends to be uneven — long sentence, short sentence, an odd word choice; generated writing tends to even out. Neither signal decides alone, and the two are blended into one score.

Where text detection is weakest, and who it hurts

Formal, polished or heavily edited human writing looks statistically like machine writing, and this is not a quirk to design around — it is the known failure mode of the whole category. Writing by non-native English speakers is flagged at higher rates for exactly this reason, because a smaller working vocabulary and steadier sentence construction are the same signals the measure reads as machine-like. Short passages are worse still, which is why a check needs about fifty words before it will run at all. And any passage that has been rewritten by hand moves toward human whatever wrote it first.

How to read your result

A detection result is a signal, not a verdict — it should never be the sole basis for a decision about a person or their work. No detector in the industry is immune to false positives, and text detectors in particular are known to flag writing by non-native English speakers at higher rates. Treat every result as one data point, combine it with additional checks and human review, and use it as a conversation starter rather than a conclusion.

How to check a piece of writing

Three steps in the browser. Nothing is uploaded.

Step 01

Paste the passage

Open the studio on the Text tab and paste the writing you want to check. About 50 words is the floor — below that there are too few sentences for the rhythm and variety measures to mean anything, so the studio asks for more rather than guessing. The box takes up to 25,000 characters; check a long document in sections.

Step 02

Run the check

A check is 10 credits, or unlimited on any paid plan while it is active. Nothing is uploaded either way: the analysis happens on your own machine, and only the counter that meters the checks touches the network.

Step 03

Read the score, then read the reasons

You get one of three readings with a probability and a confidence level, plus notes on what drove them. Read the notes before the number: if the passage was flagged for uniform sentence rhythm and it is a technical summary, that is the measure behaving as designed rather than a finding. Before acting on any result, ask the author.

Who checks writing, and why

Teachers and tutors

Check a submitted essay before talking to its author, never instead of it. Paste 50 words or more and read the reasons beside the score, then ask about the passages they point to. The essay is checked inside your browser, so a student's work is not uploaded anywhere.

Editors and publishers

Read a pitch, guest post or freelance draft for stock machine phrasing and flat sentence rhythm before you commission or publish it. "Possibly AI" is the common middle reading, and it means ask the writer, not reject the piece.

Writers checking their own draft

Paste a draft you wrote with an assistant's help to see which signals still read as machine writing, such as even sentence lengths or stock vocabulary, and revise those passages in your own words.

Frequently asked questions

What types of content can I scan?

This landing is the text check: paste an essay, an article, marketing copy, a review or a post — anything from about fifty words up to twenty-five thousand characters. The same studio also checks images, audio, video and face swaps on separate tabs; those upload a file and run on our servers, while this one runs in your browser.

How accurate is the detection?

No accuracy figure is published here, because none of the numbers this page used to print had a measurement behind them. Text detection is the least reliable kind: fluent, formal or heavily edited human writing reads as machine-like, and lightly rewritten machine text reads as human. What you get is a probability with a confidence attached and the specific signals that moved it, so you can judge whether the reasons look right for the passage in front of you.

How much does it cost?

The first 2 checks use no credits, and signing in adds 2 more. After that a check costs 10 credits, and any paid plan lifts the limit entirely while it is active.

Can it detect content from any AI system?

The check never identifies a system, so the question does not really apply to it. It measures word-choice and rhythm patterns typical of machine writing — it reads the writing in front of it rather than matching it against any list — which means it has no concept of which assistant produced a passage, and cannot tell you.

Is the analysis done locally or in the cloud?

Locally. The text check runs entirely inside your browser: your writing is never uploaded, never transmitted and never stored, and no copy of it reaches us or anyone else. Only the usage counter that meters your checks touches the network. The image, audio, video and face-swap tabs are the opposite — those upload the file and analyse it on our infrastructure.

What does the result tell me?

One of three readings — likely human, possibly AI, or likely AI — with a probability from 0 to 100, a confidence level, and plain notes on what drove it: how much formulaic machine vocabulary appeared, and how uniform the sentence rhythm and word variety were. The middle reading is a real answer, not a failure: it means the signal was genuinely mixed.

How long does a scan take?

There is no wait to speak of. The analysis is arithmetic over your text and runs on your own machine, so the result appears as soon as you press the button — the brief "analyzing" moment on screen is presentation, not processing.

Can I use this for content moderation?

As one screening signal, and never on its own. There is no detection endpoint in the public API today, so checks are run one at a time in the studio rather than automated over a queue. And any policy built on a text score needs a human step before it reaches a person: this is the modality where a false positive becomes an accusation.

How does Imagera compare to other detectors?

Five checks — text, image, audio, video and face swap — sit in one studio on one balance, and the text one runs in your browser without uploading anything. What no detector offers, here or anywhere, is certainty; a tool that reports a flat percentage with no confidence figure and no reasons is hiding the same uncertainty this one shows you.

Is the detection suitable for legal or academic proceedings?

Treat it as supporting material, never as the basis of an accusation, and be especially careful in an academic setting. Text detectors are known to flag writing by non-native English speakers at higher rates, and a probability is not evidence of authorship. Combine it with at least one other method and human review, and use a result to open a conversation with a student or an author rather than to close one.

Five checks in one studio, or a text-only tool

CapabilityImagera AIText-only tools
Modalities51
TextYesYes
ImageYesNo
AudioYesNo
VideoYesNo
DeepfakeYesNo
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Check a piece of writing

Open the studio on the Text tab, paste the passage, and read the probability with the signals beside it. The text stays on your machine.

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