Trinka AI content detector

Vendor Crimson AI Pvt. Ltd. (Enago) Official site trinka.ai/features/ai-content-detector How this card is sourced

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Trinka's AI detector claims 99.9% (accuracy) "for academic text (abstract domain), validated through independent third-party benchmarking", and credits its "#1 ranking" to the RAID leaderboard (trinka.ai/features/ai-content-detector, read 10 November 2026). The vendor is Crimson AI Pvt. Ltd., whose privacy policy calls Trinka.ai "a fully owned product of Crimson AI Pvt. Ltd." and whose footer reads Powered by Enago, the group's author-services brand (trinka.ai/privacypolicy, read 10 November 2026). The detector is one credit-metered feature of the Trinka writing assistant, costing 1 credit for every 5,000 words, and it is sold three further ways: inside the Premium Plus and Confidential Data plans, through an AI Content Detector API on the developer portal, and inside an AI Detector and Plagiarism Marketplace that resells Compilatio and StrikePlagiarism checks beside it (trinka.ai/features/credits, read 10 November 2026). The card joins the academic-writing tools in the detector index, and how this card is sourced explains why a leaderboard entry is quoted here but never ranked.

What Trinka detects

The Trinka register entry: field, value, source and read date
FieldValueSource
Content types detectedTexttrinka.ai/features/ai-content-detector
Generators coveredChatGPT (vendor wording: ChatGPT, GPT-X), Claude, Gemini (vendor wording: Gemini-X), Llama (vendor wording: Llama-X), other LLMs (vendor wording: and more)trinka.ai/features/ai-content-detector
Input limitsWeb app with login (cloud.trinka.ai): the detector page's upload prompt reads Upload your MS Word or PDF file to check for AI content, so a check accepts a Word or PDF file and returns an overall score, paragraph-level scores and a downloadable PDF report. The credits page prices the AI Detector Report at 1 credit for every 5000 words, and the pricing page's comparison table repeats Uses 1 credit per 5000 words; the Premium Plus and Confidential Data plans include 240 and 1,000 pages a year (1 page = 250 words, shared with standard plagiarism checks). The separate AI Detector and Plagiarism Marketplace accepts Word and PDF, up to 100MB and 25,000 words. No character limit for a single check is published.trinka.ai/features/ai-content-detector
Free tierBasic plan (free, no card required): 4 free credits every 30 days (Premium users get 10 and Basic users get 4 free credits every month; unused credits lapse and are reset every 30 days), and the AI Detector Report costs 1 credit for every 5000 words. The pricing FAQ: The Basic plan of Trinka never expires but allows only limited usage per monthtrinka.ai/features/credits
APIYes, developer.trinka.ai/docs/Products/AI-Cont...developer.trinka.ai/docs/Products/AI-Cont...
IntegrationsWord Add-in Lite and native app for Microsoft Word, Browser plug-in for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge, Windows desktop app and offline app, AI Content Detector API and SDK (developer portal), On-premise deployment (enterprise), LMS and SSO integration for institutions: Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, D2L & more (pricing page, Trinka for Institutions, platform-wide)trinka.ai/pricing
Data retentionTrust center (read 10 November 2026): Premium user's processed data is automatically deleted from the server every 90 days. Enterprise users can opt for confidential data plan that offers real-time data deletion; For Enterprise users on confidential data plan, the processed data is deleted in real-time; We use AWS servers based in the US. Pricing comparison table: Data auto-deletion 90 days on Basic and Premium, Real-time on Confidential Data. Privacy Policy: Crimson AI reserves the right to save documents on its systems according to its policy and Indian government regulations for conducting business, and We may delete our copies of Customer Data from time to time; the policy's retention heading states no period.trinka.ai/trust-center
OwnershipPrivacy Policy: Trinka.ai is a fully owned product of Crimson AI Pvt. Ltd.; the footer reads Powered by Enago, the author-services brand of the same group (footer: helping researchers in 125+ countries improve the communication of their research). The privacy policy states that Crimson AI reserves the right to save documents on its systems according to its policy and Indian government regulations for conducting business, and the trust center states that Trinka uses AWS servers based in the US. The AI detector is one feature of the Trinka writing assistant, sold through credits, through the Premium Plus and Confidential Data plans, through an AI Content Detector API on the developer portal and inside an AI Detector and Plagiarism Marketplace that also resells Compilatio and StrikePlagiarism checks.trinka.ai/privacypolicy

The detector page states its coverage in its first line: "Detect AI-written text from GenAI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and other LLMs, even when it is humanized", and a feature block repeats it as "LLMs such as ChatGPT, GPT-X, Gemini-X, Llama-X, Claude, and more" (trinka.ai/features/ai-content-detector, read 10 November 2026). The card counts four generator families, ChatGPT with GPT-X, Claude, Gemini with Gemini-X and Llama-X, and prints "and more" as the vendor's wording. The page describes the method only as a "Proprietary Patented AI Model" backed by "20+ Years of Expert Editorial Intelligence", and the report as an overall score with paragraph-level and phrase-level scores and a downloadable PDF that "maintains your document structure". No language list is published for the detector, so Trinka is unranked in the languages ranking; the pricing page's 30+ languages belong to the File Translation feature.

Input is a file. The page's upload prompt reads "Upload your MS Word or PDF file to check for AI content", so the card records Word and PDF as the accepted formats in the file types ranking (trinka.ai/features/ai-content-detector, read 10 November 2026). No character limit for a single check is published; the separate marketplace accepts "Word and PDF, up to 100MB and 25,000 words", a limit that belongs to that product rather than to the detector (trinka.ai/ai-detector-and-plagiarism-marketplace, read 10 November 2026). The nearest cards are Paperpal, the other academic-writing assistant whose detector sits inside a grammar product, and Compilatio, the institutional checker Trinka's marketplace resells.

Surfaces are many. The Apps and Integrations menu lists Cloud, Word Add-in Lite, Windows App, Offline App, Browser Plug-in, API / SDK and On-premise, the footer offers installs for MS Word for Windows and Mac, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge, and the institutional plan lists "LMS & SSO Integration" with "Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, D2L & more" as a platform-wide feature (trinka.ai/pricing, read 10 November 2026). The developer portal's AI Content Detector API "is designed to help developers detect AI-generated text within documents" and returns document-level and paragraph-level scores with a downloadable PDF (developer.trinka.ai, read 10 November 2026). The card therefore reaches four surfaces in the platform integrations ranking, four platforms in the LMS coverage ranking and the detectors with an API view; the LMS line names the Trinka platform for institutions rather than the detector alone, and the card says so.

Limits and plans

Trinka plans with price, limits and the date each was checked
PlanPriceLimitsChecked on
BasicFreeWriting assistance up to 5,000 words a month; 4 free credits every 30 days; AI Detector Report at 1 credit per 5,000 words; data auto-deletion 90 days (pricing comparison table); no card required.
Premium$20/month, $45 a quarter, or $80/year ($240 struck through)Full writing features; 10 free credits every 30 days; AI Detector Report at 1 credit per 5,000 words; data auto-deletion 90 days. Prices from the payments API the pricing page calls for a US visitor (Trinka Premium Monthly, Quarterly, Annual).
Premium Plus$125/year (shown as $10.41 a month)Everything in Premium with double credits; 240 pages a year of standard plagiarism check or AI detection (1 page = 250 words); Access to World's Top AI Detector (verified on RAID Leaderboard); File Translation (30+ languages). Payments API: Premium Plus - Annual, final amount 125.
Confidential Data$500/year (shown as $41.66 a month)Everything in Premium Plus; 1,000 pages a year of standard plagiarism check or AI detection and 1 Advanced report a month; real-time data deletion; no AI training; offline grammar checker app. Payments API: Trinka Confidential Data Plan Annual, final amount 500.
Credit packs$10 for 4 credits, $30 for 16, $65 for 40, $120 for 80, $320 for 240Purchased credits never expire (credits page); 1 credit runs an AI Detector Report of up to 5,000 words. Payments API credit-pack list for a US visitor.
Enterprise and InstitutionCustom pricingAPI, SDK and on-premise integrations, white labelling, usage analytics (enterprise); DocuMark, LMS and SSO integration (Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, D2L & more) for institutions; AI Content Detector API priced on request (developer portal: For pricing, please contact us at sales@trinka.ai).

The free tier is credits, not words. The credits page states: "Premium users get 10 and Basic users get 4 free credits every month!", that "Unused credits lapse and are reset every 30 days", and that the AI Detector Report costs "1 credit for every 5000 words" (trinka.ai/features/credits, read 10 November 2026). The pricing FAQ adds that the Basic plan "never expires but allows only limited usage per month" and that "No credit card details are needed to register and use the Basic plan" (trinka.ai/pricing, read 10 November 2026). Four credits and 5,000 words a credit are both published; their product is not, so the card records no monthly word figure and Trinka sits in the second table of the free tiers ranking.

The pricing page prints no price in its HTML; its cards render by script from a payments API called with the visitor's country, and the figures below are that API's US dollar values for a US visitor (payments-api.trinka.ai, read 10 November 2026).

The API is priced on request: the developer portal's pricing page lists a Grammar Check tier table and says of the other APIs, "For pricing, please contact us at sales@trinka.ai", so the card records no API price per 1,000 words and Trinka is tabled apart on the API pricing ranking (developer.trinka.ai/docs/pricing, read 10 November 2026).

Retention has a number. The trust center states: "Premium user's processed data is automatically deleted from the server every 90 days. Enterprise users can opt for confidential data plan that offers real-time data deletion", and "We use AWS servers based in the US"; the pricing table repeats "Data auto-deletion 90 days" for Basic and Premium and "Real-time" for Confidential Data (trinka.ai/trust-center, read 10 November 2026). The privacy policy is open-ended: "Crimson AI reserves the right to save documents on its systems according to its policy and Indian government regulations for conducting business" and "We may delete our copies of Customer Data from time to time" (trinka.ai/privacypolicy, read 10 November 2026). The card ranks the 90 days in the data retention ranking, the reading the index gave Hive's 14-day default, and quotes the policy beside it. The trust center lists SOC Type 2, ISO 27001:2022, HIPAA, FERPA and GDPR, five standards the card carries into the compliance view, and the on-premise and offline options are the kind of deployment the offline question covers.

What the vendor claims

#1 AI Detector With Highest Accuracy. Why Are We #1? Proven Independently: 99.9% (accuracy) for academic text (abstract domain), validated through independent third-party benchmarking. Verified independently. #1 ranking comes from RAID, the leading third-party benchmark for AI-text detection. The RAID benchmark is a leading industry evaluation that tests AI detectors on over 600,000 text samples generated by 11 different AI models, across multiple domains.
trinka.ai/features/ai-content-detector, read

The claim is a leaderboard reading. Under "Why Are We #1? Proven Independently" the page prints 99.9% (accuracy) for academic abstracts, "Evaluates 12 adversarial manipulation techniques, including synonym substitution, whitespace and homoglyph injection, paraphrasing, article deletion, and case manipulation", and "With strong scores on AUROC and TPR@5% FPR, Trinka's AI detector is built for precision, not just recall" (trinka.ai/features/ai-content-detector, read 10 November 2026). The RAID leaderboard repository holds a submission named Trinka AI dated 26 May 2026 with a Crimson contact, scored on RAID's hidden test set at 0.9976 accuracy at a 5% false positive rate across all 652,800 scored generations and 1.0 on the abstracts domain with no attack (leaderboard results, read 10 November 2026). That entry is the vendor's own submission scored by the benchmark, not a paper, so it sits in this paragraph and in no rank field; the question on public leaderboard entries draws the same line.

No false positive rate is published as a figure, so Trinka has no row in the false positive ranking, and no study pairs with the 99.9%, so the claim versus evidence ranking lists the claim in its vendor table. The page's own disclaimer is the caveat the card records: the detector "is designed to assist in identifying content that may have been produced by an AI generator. However, this evaluation might not always accurately distinguish between human and AI-created content, so it should not be the sole factor in determining the nature of the content" (trinka.ai/features/ai-content-detector, read 10 November 2026). The marketplace page adds: "All AI detection tools have false positives" and "One score is a signal, not a verdict".

What independent studies found

No record in the studies index tested Trinka. RAID 2024, the paper behind the leaderboard the vendor cites, ran twelve detectors in 2024, two years before the Trinka submission, and its tables carry no Trinka row (arXiv 2405.07940, Tables 4 to 16, read 10 November 2026). The humanized-text claim is likewise untested in the index; the paraphrase and humanizer figures that exist for other tools are on the paraphrased text question.

Where Trinka appears in the index

Trinka qualifies for six stated-value rankings, read 10 November 2026 in the data file: data retention at 90 days, accepted file types at two, platform integrations at four surfaces, LMS coverage at four platforms, generator models named at four, and the compliance view with five named standards. It qualifies for detectors with an API and, through the institutional line, for the LMS integrations view. It is absent from every study ranking and from the free tier, language, input limit and API price rankings, which need figures the vendor does not publish. Every detector card on the register shows the same fourteen fields, so a 99.9% leaderboard claim can be read in the same columns as the detectors that have study records.

Questions about Trinka AI content detector

Is Trinka's AI detector free?

On the Basic plan, through credits: 4 free credits every 30 days at 1 credit per 5,000 words, no card required, read 10 November 2026. The vendor states no monthly word figure.

How much does Trinka cost?

$20 a month, $45 a quarter or $80 a year for Premium, $125 a year for Premium Plus with 240 pages of detection or plagiarism checks, $500 a year for Confidential Data with 1,000 pages, and credit packs from $10 for 4 credits, from the payments API the pricing page calls, read 10 November 2026.

How accurate does Trinka say its detector is?

99.9% (accuracy) for academic abstracts, attributed to a RAID leaderboard entry, read 10 November 2026; the entry itself prints 0.9976 at a 5% false positive rate across all scored generations. No study record exists.

Does Trinka store the text you check?

For 90 days on Basic and Premium, by the trust center's clause that processed data "is automatically deleted from the server every 90 days", and in real time on the Confidential Data plan, read 10 November 2026; the privacy policy reserves the right to save documents.

Does Trinka have an API for AI detection?

Yes: the developer portal documents an AI Content Detector API returning document and paragraph scores, with a test key on registration and pricing on request, read 10 November 2026.

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