Wordtune AI content detector

Vendor AI21 Labs Ltd. Official site wordtune.com/ai-content-detector How this card is sourced

AIDI-D-0057

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Wordtune's AI content detector scored one ChatGPT 3.5 article as 100% AI in Kar 2024, one of five free tools that read the same text at 100% (DOI 10.1177/02537176241247934, Table 1, read 10 November 2026). The vendor is AI21 Labs Ltd., the Israeli company behind the Wordtune writing assistant, and the tool holds a card in the detector index although its page no longer exists: wordtune.com/ai-content-detector returned 200 in Wayback captures through 30 March 2025 and 404 from the capture of 26 July 2025 onward, and on 10 November 2026 the address returns a Webflow 404 page while the site footer still links to it (archived detector page, captured 30 March 2025, read 10 November 2026). No withdrawal notice was published. How this card is sourced applies the same fourteen fields to a withdrawn tool as to a live one, and the one study that tested it stays in the record.

What Wordtune detected

The Wordtune register entry: field, value, source and read date
FieldValueSource
Content types detectedTextweb.archive.org/web/20250330002823/https:...
Generators coveredChatGPT, GPT-4 (page title: Free AI Content Detector for GPT-4, ChatGPT & Other Tools), other AI tools (vendor wording)web.archive.org/web/20250330002823/https:...
LanguagesEnglish, German, Spanish, French, Portugueseweb.archive.org/web/20241126223017/https:...
Input limitsWeb widget on the archived product page (captured 30 March 2025; widget bundle captured 26 November 2024): a paste box with the placeholder Paste your text here, up to 5,000 characters; validation messages The minimum text length is 250 characters and Too much text to scan. The maximum text length is 5000 characters; an unsupported-language message naming English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese; a result shown as a percentage of your text is AI-generated. The launch blog post (August 21, 2023, live) says Really any piece of writing up to 250,000 characters, which the widget's 5,000-character limit contradicts. No file upload. The widget posted text to a /detect endpoint on the vendor's Heroku app, which returns 404 on 10 November 2026.web.archive.org/web/20241126223017/https:...
Free tierFree web tool with no account stated: the archived page calls it This FREE tool and the widget's limit dialog reads Thanks for using the AI detection tool. You've used the 3 daily limit, but you can come back again tomorrow and reuse the tool (3 checks a day, bundle captured 26 November 2024); withdrawn between 30 March and 26 July 2025, so no free tier is available at the read dateweb.archive.org/web/20241126223017/https:...
Data retentionPrivacy Policy (last updated August 3, 2025), section 2.2 Retention of your Personal Data: Your Personal Data will be stored until we proactively delete it or you send a valid deletion request. Please note that in some circumstances we may store your Personal Data for longer periods of time. The same policy lists as collected data Content including prompts, text, documents, and any other content and information uploaded, entered, or otherwise transmitted by you in connection with your use of the Services, and section 5.5 states we may aggregate your Personal Information and content to develop AI21 products and services, with an opt-out by email. No period is stated for submitted text; the archived detector page carried no retention statement.wordtune.com/privacy-policy
Launch year2023wordtune.com/ai-content-detector
OwnershipWordtune is a product of AI21 Labs Ltd. (Privacy Policy, last updated August 3, 2025: this privacy policy governs how we, AI21 LABS LTD. (together, AI21, Wordtune, we, our or us) use, collect and store Personal Data; the data controller contact is privacy@wordtune.com). The Terms of Use (last updated October 15, 2025) are governed by the laws of the State of Israel with jurisdiction in the courts of Tel Aviv-Yafo, and the site footer reads All Rights Reserved AI21 Labs, 2025. The detector was announced on the Wordtune blog on August 21, 2023 (Introducing the Wordtune AI Content Detector). The product page at wordtune.com/ai-content-detector returned 200 in Wayback captures through 30 March 2025 and 404 from the capture of 26 July 2025 onward; on 10 November 2026 it returns a Webflow 404 page, the detection widget's host (wordtune-ai-detection-tool-d6187fcd1c0d.herokuapp.com) returns 404, and the wordtune.com footer still carries an AI content detector link to the dead address. The vendor has published no withdrawal notice; the blog post of August 2023 remains live.wordtune.com/privacy-policy
Independent studies1 recordStudies index

The detector was a free widget on a Wordtune marketing page, announced on the vendor blog on August 21, 2023 under the title "Introducing the Wordtune AI Content Detector" (blog post, read 10 November 2026). The archived page's title named the targets, "Free AI Content Detector for GPT-4, ChatGPT & Other Tools", and the result was a percentage: the widget's result screen read "of your text is AI-generated" under the figure (archived widget bundle, captured 26 November 2024, read 10 November 2026). The modality is text only; the card names the GPT family once in its generator count, with ChatGPT and GPT-4 as the two named products.

The widget's limits are printed nowhere on the page itself, only in the JavaScript the page loaded from the vendor's Heroku app. That bundle holds the paste box placeholder "Paste your text here, up to 5,000 characters", the validation messages "The minimum text length is 250 characters" and "Too much text to scan. The maximum text length is 5000 characters", and an unsupported-language message that names "English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese" (archived widget bundle, 26 November 2024; the same constants sit in the bundle captured 16 December 2023, read 10 November 2026). The card quotes the five languages and records a 250-character minimum from those strings; the language count is not ranked, because the archived page itself names no language and the tool is withdrawn (ruling of 10 November 2026), and it records a contradiction: the launch blog post says the tool takes "Really any piece of writing up to 250,000 characters", fifty times the widget's ceiling (blog post, read 10 November 2026). The widget sent text to a /detect endpoint on the same Heroku host, which returns 404 on 10 November 2026, so no part of the tool runs. Two other withdrawn tools in the index are Writer and Check For AI; the detector that Kar 2024 ranked beside Wordtune at 100% on the original text, Copyleaks, remains live.

Limits and plans

The free allowance was three checks a day. The widget's limit dialog read: "Thanks for using the AI detection tool. You've used the 3 daily limit, but you can come back again tomorrow and reuse the tool. You can also use Wordtune to rephrase your text and make it more original using AI" (archived widget bundle, 26 November 2024, read 10 November 2026). No monthly word figure was stated, so the free words per month field stays empty; the 3 a day is quoted here and not ranked, because the tool is withdrawn and the figure sits only in the shipped bundle, never on a vendor page (ruling of 10 November 2026). The archived page stated no account requirement, so the no-account flag stays off under the rule that reads statements rather than behaviour.

The detector was never sold. Wordtune's live plans page lists Basic at $0.00, Advanced at $6.99 a month ($4.89 a month billed annually) and Unlimited at $9.99 a month ($6.99 a month billed annually), with allowances for rewrites, AI suggestions and summaries, and none of the three plans mentions AI detection (wordtune.com/plans, read 10 November 2026). The card therefore carries no plan table, and the pricing above describes the writing assistant, not the detector.

On retention, the live privacy policy of August 3, 2025 states in section 2.2: "Your Personal Data will be stored until we proactively delete it or you send a valid deletion request", and it lists among collected data "Content including prompts, text, documents, and any other content and information uploaded, entered, or otherwise transmitted by you in connection with your use of the Services" (privacy policy, read 10 November 2026). Section 5.5 adds that "we may aggregate your Personal Information and content to develop AI21 products and services", with an opt-out by email. No period is stated and the archived detector page carried no retention statement, so the retention rank field is empty. Ownership comes from the same policy, which names AI21 Labs Ltd. as data controller, and from the terms of use of October 15, 2025, which apply the laws of the State of Israel and the courts of Tel Aviv-Yafo (terms of use, read 10 November 2026).

What the vendor claims

The AI detector uses Large Language Models to analyze patterns commonly used to generate text using AI. This way, it is able to pinpoint paragraphs and sentences likely created by AI. It has an accuracy rate of over 99% (archived product page, The technology behind the AI detection; written over 99% (accuracy rate) on the card). Step 2: By combining machine learning algorithms with natural language processing techniques, the AI Detector will accurately predict the origin of your text. No dataset, date or method is published.
web.archive.org/web/20250330002823/https:..., read

The archived page made one accuracy claim without a dataset, a date or a method: "The AI detector uses Large Language Models to analyze patterns commonly used to generate text using AI. This way, it is able to pinpoint paragraphs and sentences likely created by AI. It has an accuracy rate of over 99%" (archived detector page, 30 March 2025, read 10 November 2026). The card writes the figure as over 99% (accuracy rate), quoted and attributed. The step-by-step copy above it promised that the tool "will accurately predict the origin of your text". No false positive rate was published, so the claim gap field pairs the 99% with no study figure: Kar 2024 printed displayed scores on one article, not an accuracy rate.

The page framed detection as a step toward rewriting. Step 4 read "Rewrite: Use the Wordtune Rewrite tool to rephrase any parts of the text that were marked as AI-generated", and the blog post gave the reason: "Google penalizes content generated by AI, and generally ranks machine-written text lower on search result pages than content that was written by humans" (blog post, August 21, 2023, read 10 November 2026). The live site sells a "Humanize AI" feature in its navigation (read 10 November 2026). The card carries no statement that the detector catches paraphrased text, because none was made, and it carries the rewrite sentences as the vendor's own framing.

What independent studies found

  1. AIDI-S-0023Kar 20242024

    Wordtune AI Content Detector: 100% AI and 0% human on one ChatGPT 3.5 article of under 500 words, one of five tools at 100% (Table 1); after a QuillBot paraphrase the AI score fell to 0, after a Grammarly paraphrase 100 and after a ChatGPT paraphrase 100, each on one text. Free tier tested.

One record in the studies index tested Wordtune. Kar 2024 ran one ChatGPT 3.5 article of under 500 words through the free versions of ten detectors found by a Google search for "AI detector free", and Wordtune read it as 100% AI and 0% human, as did Copyleaks, QuillBot, Sapling and Undetectable AI, while GPTZero read 97%, ZeroGPT 95.03% and Dupli Checker 0% (DOI 10.1177/02537176241247934, Table 1, read 10 November 2026).

The paraphrase rows are where Wordtune moved. After a QuillBot paraphrase of the same article, Wordtune's AI score fell from 100 to 0, the same fall Copyleaks showed, while after a Grammarly paraphrase and a ChatGPT paraphrase Wordtune read 100 on both (Kar 2024, Table 1). These are displayed scores on one text, with no human-written sample and no error rate, so the false positive, false negative and robustness rank fields on this card stay empty under the rule the index applied to Content Detector AI for the same record. The test ran on the 2024 tool; the vendor withdrew it before any newer test could.

Where Wordtune appears in the index

Wordtune ranks in one study-based list, AI detectors ranked by independent studies, on its single record. On vendor-stated values from the archived page and widget bundle it qualifies for minimum input at 250 characters, maximum input per check at 5,000 characters and generator models named at one family, each read in the data file on 10 November 2026; the five languages and the 3 checks a day are quoted on the languages and free checks per day pages without a rank, because both sit only in the withdrawn widget's bundle (ruling of 10 November 2026). It does not appear in the false positive, false negative, retention or claim gap rankings, because no record prints a rate for it and the policy states no period.

Every detector card on the register shows Wordtune with the same fields as the live tools, so a reader who meets a Wordtune percentage in a 2024 or early 2025 file can see what the widget accepted and what the one study measured. The withdrawal sits beside the others on which AI detectors were shut down, and the paraphrase rows feed which AI detectors detect AI-paraphrased text.

Questions about Wordtune AI content detector

Is the Wordtune AI content detector still available?

No. The page returned 200 in Wayback captures through 30 March 2025 and 404 from 26 July 2025; on 10 November 2026 it returns a 404 and the widget's host returns 404, per the archived captures and live checks read 10 November 2026. The vendor published no notice.

How accurate was Wordtune's AI detector in independent tests?

Kar 2024 read one ChatGPT 3.5 article as 100% AI, one of five free tools at 100%, and 0 after a QuillBot paraphrase, 100 after Grammarly and ChatGPT paraphrases (Table 1), displayed scores on one text, read in the primary paper on 10 November 2026.

How much text could Wordtune check at once?

Between 250 and 5,000 characters per check, 3 checks a day, in English, German, Spanish, French or Portuguese, per the widget bundle captured 26 November 2024 and read 10 November 2026. The launch blog post's 250,000 characters contradicts the widget's ceiling.

Did Wordtune publish an accuracy figure?

Yes: "an accuracy rate of over 99%", with no dataset, date or method, on the archived detector page of 30 March 2025, read 10 November 2026. No false positive rate accompanied it.

Who owns Wordtune?

AI21 Labs Ltd., named as data controller in the privacy policy of August 3, 2025, under terms of use governed by the laws of the State of Israel, read 10 November 2026.

Sources and revisions

Sources

  1. web.archive.org/web/20250330002823/https:...Read 10 November 2026
  2. web.archive.org/web/20241126223017/https:...Read 10 November 2026
  3. wordtune.com/ai-content-detectorRead 10 November 2026
  4. wordtune.com/blog/ai-content-detectorRead 10 November 2026
  5. wordtune.com/plansRead 10 November 2026
  6. wordtune.com/privacy-policyRead 10 November 2026
  7. wordtune.com/terms-of-useRead 10 November 2026
  8. doi.org/10.1177/02537176241247934Read 10 November 2026

Revision log

  1. Card created2026-11-10: language count and free checks per day set to not ranked at the merge (bundle-only values of a withdrawn tool, quoted in prose)

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