Copyleaks AI Detector vs Dolos

Copyleaks AI Detector identifies AI-written text, including writing that mixes AI and human passages. It supports more than 30 languages and names GPT-5, GPT-4, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Llama, Bloom, Rytr, and Jasper among the sources it detects. AI Logic explains flagged results, displays AI phrase frequency, and can identify text appearing in published content elsewhere. The web detector scans up to 25,000 characters without login; the website platform requires at least 255 characters and accepts up to 2,000 pages. A Chrome and Edge extension accepts 350 to 25,000 characters, and a Google Docs add-on and education LMS integrations connect it to other workflows. Personal costs $13.99 a year with annual billing or $16.99 a month; Pro costs $74.99 a year with annual billing or $99.99 a month. A free plan and free trial are listed. Copyleaks says data is encrypted at rest with AES-256, reports SOC 2 and SOC 3 certifications, and supports GDPR compliance.

Dolos is a free, open-source tool for finding similarities between source-code submissions, particularly for teachers reviewing tests, exams, and exercises where collaboration may be allowed in small groups. Its analysis process tokenizes files, fingerprints token sequences, indexes matches, and produces reports. For each file pair, reports include similarity, total overlap, and the longest matching fragment. Dolos uses Tree-sitter parsers and supports languages including Bash, C, C++, C#, Elm, JavaScript, Java, PHP, Python, and TypeScript. The web app accepts ZIP files and detects languages from file extensions; in mixed-language archives, it analyzes only the dominant language unless a language is selected. Its public API accepts ZIP submissions up to 10 MB, with the CLI or library recommended for larger submissions. Analyses can also run locally, with results displayed in a browser, or on a self-hosted server. The free web app is hosted on Ghent University servers in Belgium. Dolos provides a JSON API for integrations such as Dodona and lists CSV as a report export format.