The free tier allows 150 words a month, and 80 of them in one scan. Eighty words is about three sentences — shorter than this paragraph.
Nothing in this category fails at three sentences. Every tool here, ours included, produces something plausible at that length, because the patterns that give machine writing away are patterns of accumulation: connectives that recur, sentences that converge on one length, emphasis that flattens across paragraphs. None of them can appear in eighty words. What the free tier demonstrates is that the service is online.
Our free plan takes 1,500 words in a single scan and 2,000 a month, which is enough to run a real essay through and read the result end to end. We are not being generous — we think the product survives being examined at the length people actually write at, and a sample too short to show a weakness is also too short to show a strength.