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Write It pricing and tokens, explained
Free, Plus, and Premium, what a token is, what each feature costs you, and how to decide without overpaying.
Write It teamUpdated 3 min read
Write It meters AI usage in tokens. Everything else about the pricing follows from understanding what a token is and what spends them.
The plans
| Plan | Monthly | Yearly | Tokens |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | — | 7-day Premium trial + 5,000/month |
| Plus | $10 | $96 ($8/mo) | 100,000/month, refreshed monthly |
| Premium | $15 | $144 ($12/mo) | 200,000/month, refreshed monthly |
The free plan is two things stacked. First, a personal code in your welcome email that starts a seven-day Premium trial whenever you choose; it never expires and works once. Second, 5,000 tokens that top back up to 5,000 at the start of every month. The AI Detector sits outside both: it is free every day and costs no tokens.
Plus adds Write It Max, larger file uploads, the Research Agent, and the deep research model. Premium doubles the token allowance and adds priority support and early access to new features.
What a token is
Tokens are the unit AI models bill in — roughly, pieces of words. Write It passes that metering through rather than inventing a separate credit system, so what you spend tracks what a request actually cost to run.
The practical consequence is that costs are proportional to size and complexity. A one-sentence rewrite is cheap. An agent run that plans, drafts, and revises a full section reads and writes far more text, so it costs more.
What spends tokens
- Apollo Agent Mode. The most token-intensive feature by a distance — it reads your document and generates across multiple steps.
- The AI Humanizer. Scales with the length of the passage you rewrite.
- Highlight Mode. Small, since it operates on a selection.
- Research Mode. Source discovery and Works Cited generation both use tokens; the deep research model uses more.
The auto typer itself does not consume tokens for typing text you already have — that is a local operation. Live grammar and clarity checks in the Writing Assistant are also not metered, and the AI Detector is free every day on every plan. During the seven-day trial your account runs on the Premium allowance instead.
Which plan you need
- Stay on Free if you mostly want the auto typer and the writing checks, with occasional AI help. Both of the former are unmetered, the seven-day trial covers a first big push, and 5,000 tokens come back every month.
- Get Plus if you use Apollo regularly, want Write It Max on every document, or are writing a research paper that needs the Research Agent.
- Get Premium if you are running out of tokens on Plus. It is the same features with double the allowance — if 100,000 is enough, Plus is the right plan and we would rather you stayed on it.
Because the allowance refreshes in full every month, a heavy month never eats into the next one — you start each month at your plan’s full amount. Most students on Plus do not exhaust an allowance in a month, and if you regularly need more, Premium doubles the allowance.
Billing details
- Cancel any time. Access continues to the end of the billing period you paid for.
- Yearly saves 20%. $96 versus $120 on Plus, $144 versus $180 on Premium.
- No card for the free tier. Signing up costs nothing and requires no payment method.
Start on the free plan
A seven-day Premium trial, 5,000 tokens every month, one Write It Max run, and unmetered typing. No card required to sign up.