Grammarly Premium Price: What $12/Month Gets You (and What It Leaves Out)

The short answer

Grammarly Premium costs about $12/month billed annually - roughly $144/year (monthly billing costs more; check Grammarly's site for current rates). You get advanced grammar and clarity suggestions, tone adjustment, full-sentence rewrites, and plagiarism detection.

What you do not get: translation, voice dictation, code support, offline use, or any choice over which AI processes your text.

What Premium actually adds over free

Grammarly's free tier covers basic grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Premium unlocks:

• Full-sentence rewrites for clarity and fluency
• Tone adjustment suggestions
• Vocabulary and word-choice improvements
• Plagiarism detection against web sources
• Consistency checks for spelling and formatting

For English-only writing in the browser, that is a genuinely useful bundle. The question is whether it is worth $144/year when the AI writing landscape has moved.

What the $12/month does not cover

• Translation. Grammarly is English-improvement only.
• Voice dictation. No speech-to-text at any tier.
• Native Mac apps beyond the mainstream. Coverage centers on browsers and major desktop apps; terminals and code editors are out.
• Privacy control. Your text is processed on Grammarly's servers, per its documentation. There is no local or offline mode.
• Model choice. You get Grammarly's AI - there is no swapping in GPT-5.2, Claude, or a local model.

How the price compares in 2026

• Grammarly Premium: ~$12/month billed annually
• Echoo Pro: $6.99/month for 300 AI commands - grammar, rewriting, translation, summarization, and dictation in every Mac app. See the full Echoo vs Grammarly breakdown (opens in new tab).
• LanguageTool Premium: ~$4.99/month, grammar-focused, 30+ languages
• QuillBot Premium: $19.95/month billed monthly, paraphrasing-focused

Echoo's pricing works in credits rather than a flat subscription tier: one credit is used after one successful managed AI command, whatever the length of the text. Here is how credits differ from AI model tokens (opens in new tab). Every new user gets 10 free credits with no API key or card, and the BYOK mode (bring your own API key) stays free with no caps.

Is Grammarly Premium worth it?

It depends on where and what you write:

• You write English in a browser all day and want passive inline suggestions: Premium is a reasonable, polished spend.
• You write across Mac apps, in multiple languages, or handle sensitive text: a system-wide tool with model choice covers more for less. That is the case Echoo was built for - see why Mac users switch from Grammarly (opens in new tab).
• You mainly need paraphrasing or plagiarism checks: QuillBot's bundle may fit better.

If the price is what sent you looking, it is worth seeing the whole field before renewing: we compared the best Grammarly alternatives for Mac (opens in new tab) on price, privacy, and what each one does beyond grammar checking.

Try before you decide

The cheapest way to compare is to run both for a week. Grammarly's free tier shows you its suggestion style, and Echoo's 10 free credits (opens in new tab) let you test AI grammar fixes, rewrites, and translation in your real apps - no API key, no card, nothing to cancel.