Grammarly checks spelling, grammar and tone wherever you write, rewrites sentences and checks for plagiarism and AI text. Papero is built for one job: writing an academic paper, with an outline, sentence suggestions, citations from real scholarly records and six review checks before you submit.
Updated October 2026 with prices and features from both sites.
Prices and features change often. We checked these on Grammarly's own website on 20 October 2026; check its site before you decide, and tell us at contact@papero.ai if something here is out of date.
| Factor | Papero | Grammarly |
|---|---|---|
| Main job | Write and cite a paper: outline, draft, rewrite and real citations in one editor | Grammar, tone and rewrite help across the apps you write in |
| Paid plans | Plus is $12 a month or $96 a year | Pro €12 EUR, as its plans page showed it to us; Enterprise on request |
| Free plan | Yes: 30 accepted suggestions a day, 3 reviews a month; reference list readable on Plus | Yes: spelling and grammar checks, tone, 100 AI prompts a month |
| Outline | IMRaD, AI headings or none, with a prompt for every section | AI help with outlines and ideas |
| Sentence suggestions | One sentence at a time; 5,000 accepted a month on Plus | Text generation from AI prompts; 2,000 a month on Pro |
| Finding papers to cite | OpenAlex search across 250M+ papers, or a DOI, PMID, arXiv ID or ISBN | A citation generator with DOI and URL fields, and a Citation Finder that recommends sources |
| Citation styles | APA 7, MLA 9, Chicago author-date, Harvard and IEEE | APA, MLA and Chicago in its citation generator |
| Bringing your sources | .bib and .ris files, or Zotero with your own API key | Not described on its site |
| Review before you submit | Six checks: sources, proofreading, claims, an AI reviewer report, tone and, on Plus, a citation report | Grammar and tone suggestions, plagiarism and AI text detection on Pro |
| Training on your writing | Your documents are never used to train AI models | Says it will not let third parties train on your writing, and uses it to improve its own products |
Many students use both. Write and cite your paper in Papero, export it to Word, and let a grammar checker look over the final text.
| Feature | Papero | Grammarly |
|---|---|---|
| Outline builderGrammarly: AI help with outlines and ideas. | Yes | Partly |
| AI sentence suggestionsGrammarly generates text from AI prompts. | Yes | Not described on its site |
| Rewrite and paraphraseGrammarly: full-sentence rewrites on Pro and a paraphrasing tool. | Yes | Yes |
| Search papers to citeGrammarly: Citation Finder flags text that needs a citation and recommends sources, five a day on Free; its databases are not named. | Yes | Partly |
| Look up a DOI, PMID, arXiv ID or ISBNGrammarly: DOI or URL in its citation generator. | Yes | Partly |
| APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard and IEEEGrammarly's citation generator: APA, MLA and Chicago. | Yes | Partly |
| Import your sources | Yes | Not described on its site |
| Export your sourcesPapero: .bib or .ris on Plus. Grammarly: copy a citation. | Partly | Partly |
| Flags retracted papers and preprints | Yes | Not described on its site |
| Proofreading | Yes | Yes |
| AI reviewer reportGrammarly: custom feedback on your text and help with counterarguments. | Yes | Partly |
| Version historyGrammarly: Authorship keeps version history and replays how you wrote. | Yes | Partly |
| Word exportGrammarly works inside MS Office. | Yes | Not described on its site |
| AI use statementGrammarly: Authorship reports which text was typed, pasted or AI-assisted. | Yes | Partly |
| Says your writing is not used for trainingGrammarly says it will not let third parties train their models on your writing and that it uses your writing to improve its products. | Yes | Partly |
Papero's prices include VAT. Other prices are as each vendor listed them in October 2026; check their pricing page before you decide.
Grammarly and Papero are different tools. Grammarly is a writing assistant for any text in any app. Papero is a workspace for writing an academic paper: outline, sentence suggestions, citations from real records and a review before you submit. Many students use a grammar checker on top.
For academic papers, yes. Papero includes proofreading and rewrites, and adds an outline, citations from real scholarly records and a review of your sources and claims.
Papero Plus is $12 a month or $96 a year, VAT included. Grammarly's plans page showed Pro at €12 EUR to us in October 2026, without a billing period; prices there may depend on where you are.
Yes. Proofread in the Review panel suggests spelling, grammar, punctuation and clarity fixes, and you can select text to fix grammar, simplify it or make it more academic.
Grammarly has a citation generator for APA, MLA and Chicago with DOI and URL fields, and a Citation Finder that recommends sources and inserts citations, five a day on Free. Papero finds papers in OpenAlex for the sentence you are writing and builds the reference list in five styles.
Papero never uses your documents to train AI models. Grammarly says it will not let third parties use your writing to train their models, and that using Grammarly gives it permission to use your writing to improve its products.
Yes. Write and cite in Papero, export the document to Word, and run Grammarly over the final text.
Choose Papero to write and cite an academic paper. Choose Grammarly for grammar and tone help in every app you write in, or use both.
Grammarly is a trademark of its owner. Papero is not affiliated with Grammarly. Facts checked October 2026 on Grammarly's own website; if something has changed, tell us at contact@papero.ai.
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