AI Detectors.io vs Detecto

AI Detectors.io analyzes text associated with major language models, returning an overall AI probability, confidence scores, and sentence-level results. The site also offers a humanizer, citation verification, plagiarism checking, grammar tools, and watermark removal. Its detector says it examines perplexity, burstiness, n-gram patterns, and stylometric fingerprints. The company reports 95.2% accuracy and 3.1% false positives from an April 2026 benchmark of 500 texts. The detector is trained and benchmarked on English; it returns scores for other languages, but those languages are outside that benchmark. Access is available through the web, Chrome extension, Microsoft Word add-in, and REST API. The Word add-in supports Word 2016 and later on Windows and Mac, as well as Word for the web, and can produce PDF reports. The free plan includes 10,000 words per month and a 500-word-per-use limit. Premium is listed at $8.33 a month, billed annually, with scans up to 25,000 words. Submitted text may be processed by third-party providers and retained as long as needed to support the service.

Detecto is a web service that estimates AI-generation likelihood for text, images, video, and audio, returning calibrated probabilities, supporting evidence, and reviewer reports. Text reports can highlight sentences and show perplexity, burstiness, and a confidence band. Image reports include generation likelihood, a region heatmap, surface-artifact flags, and metadata-integrity checks. Reviewers can add notes, save reports, export PDFs, and share controlled links. Scans and reports are private to the account by default; ephemeral mode allows scanning without storing content or reports. Detecto says submissions are never used to train its detection models. The service is aimed at editors, educators, newsroom verification desks, PR teams, agencies, publishers, and universities. A free tier includes starter credits and full report fidelity without a card. Student costs $6.99 a month billed $83.88/yr; Pro costs $19.99 a month billed $239.88/yr; Max costs $59.90 a month billed $718.80/yr. Scores are probabilistic, not proof, and short or translated text can affect detection.