ApyHub Readability Scores Documents API vs Check Readability

ApyHub Readability Scores Documents API scores documents and publicly accessible web pages, returning a readability score, reading level, and text statistics. File requests accept PDF, DOC, or DOCX uploads up to 100 MB. English checks use the Flesch Reading Ease formula by default, while German uses the Wiener Sachtextformel. Results can include word, sentence, character, and paragraph counts, average lengths, and estimated reading and speaking times. The score includes a grade class, a plain-language label, and an indication of whether a standard readability threshold is met. ApyHub lists uses such as reviewing contracts, policies, manuals, help pages, websites, reports, and proposals; AI agents can also access the API through ApyHub MCP for content reviews. The product page offers five API calls a day free without a card. Starter is free and includes 3,000 atoms per month; Pro costs $16 a month and Pro+ $42 a month. Requests can return a 429 rate_limited error when the plan's per-second limit is exceeded.

Check Readability analyzes pasted text and returns nine readability scores alongside a consensus grade level. The formulas include Automated Readability Index, Flesch Reading Ease, Gunning Fog, Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level, Coleman-Liau, SMOG, LINSEAR Write, FORCAST and New Dale-Chall. The web analyzer gives feedback on complexity, sentence length and word choice. A Chrome extension adds a native Side Panel, full-page or selected-text extraction and interactive formula breakdowns; scoring happens locally without transmitting page content or selected text. Text submitted to the website is sent over an encrypted connection and kept in memory only while scores are calculated. The site says analyzed text is not logged or stored, while Google Analytics is used for page visits and browser-related information. Check Readability is free, requires no account and permits personal and commercial use. The product says readable content can support accessibility and search rankings. Its scores are statistical estimates and cannot determine whether writing is accurate, logical, appropriate or well argued. The extension supports System, Light and Dark interface modes.