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Sudowrite: plans, prices, strengths and limits
Sudowrite has no free plan. Hobby & Student costs $19 a month (or $10 a month paid annually) for 225,000 credits, Professional $29 (or $22) for 1,000,000 credits, and Max $59 (or $44) for 2,000,000 credits a month.
Prices for United States, before sales tax Data release 2026.11.07-2, Nov 7, 2026 Rules 2.5.0
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- Sudowrite
- Individual plans
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- Paid plans
- $19 to $59 a month
- Facts checked
- Nov 4, 2026
Quick verdict
Sudowrite is a writing app for fiction authors. Every plan includes the same tools: Write, Rewrite, Describe and Expand, a Story Bible that holds your genre, style, synopsis, characters, worldbuilding and outline, a story-aware Chat, and a choice of Sudowrite's own Muse and Ballad models or 30+ outside models. Hobby & Student is $19 a month, or $10 a month paid annually ($120 a year by our calculation), with 225,000 credits a month. Professional is $29 a month, or $22 paid annually ($264 a year), with 1,000,000 credits and Feedback. Max is $59 a month, or $44 paid annually ($528 a year), with 2,000,000 credits that roll over for up to 12 months. Sudowrite does not say whether tax is included.
Ownership and training are clear on paper. Sudowrite's help center says what it generates in response to your inputs is yours to own, use and distribute, the Terms say all rights in your content remain with you, and the FAQ says Sudowrite does not use your writing to train AI models. You can export a whole project as a .zip or one merged .docx, and your writing stays accessible even without a plan.
Credits are the catch: what a credit buys depends on the task and the model, and bigger models use far more. Sudowrite estimates Professional's 1,000,000 credits at roughly 50,000 to 500,000 AI words a month. On Hobby & Student and Professional, unused credits expire monthly. There is no free plan, and Sudowrite's pages describe the trial differently. This verdict rests on what Sudowrite documents, not on our tests, which we have not run yet.
Strengths and limits
Strengths
- Built around your storyEach project has a Story Bible (braindump, genre, style, synopsis, characters, worldbuilding and outline) that every tool and Chat uses as context, and Series share that context across books.
- Fiction models plus 30+ othersChoose Sudowrite's own Muse 1.5 or Ballad, or an outside model from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek, xAI, Moonshot or Mistral, such as Claude 4.5 Opus, GPT-5, Gemini 3 Pro, Grok 4 or Kimi K2. Bigger models use far more credits.
- Your writing stays yoursThe help center says what Sudowrite generates in response to your inputs is yours to own, use and distribute, and the FAQ says Sudowrite does not use your writing to train AI models. No setting is needed.
- Easy to bring a manuscript in and outImport .txt, .doc, .docx, .rtf and .odt files, Scrivener backups and a CSV of characters. Export a whole project as a .zip or a merged .docx, single documents, or Story Bible sections.
- Some tools cost no creditsChat-only mode and Quick Edit, which rewrites up to 1,000 words to your instruction, do not use credits on any plan. Sudowrite says extra credits can be bought and never expire.
Limits
- No free plan, and the trial is unclearUnverified point. Sudowrite has no free plan. The pricing page offers a "Free Trial, No credit card", the help center describes a 7-day refund window, and the mobile app gives new accounts a limited number of free trial credits. The amount of trial credits is not published.
- Credits are hard to predictPlan limit. Credit costs vary by task and model, and an image from Visualize uses 2,500 credits. Sudowrite estimates 1,000,000 credits at roughly 50,000 to 500,000 AI words a month. Unused credits expire monthly on Hobby & Student and Professional; only Max rolls them over, for up to 12 months.
- Feedback starts on ProfessionalPlan limit. Feedback, with developmental edits, line edits, copy edits for grammar, passive voice and punctuation, and AI beta readers, is exclusive to Professional and Max. Hobby & Student can still ask Quick Edit for edits.
- No integrations or web search documentedNot verified. No page describes integrations with other services, a Word or Google Docs add-in, or Chat searching the live web with sources. No context window is given for Sudowrite itself.
- Pricing page shows two credit amountsUnverified point. The pricing page's Professional card shows both 1,000,000 and 450,000 credits a month; 450,000 appears to be an older amount. The help center and the page's structured data both say 1,000,000.
Based on what Sudowrite documents for each plan, not on our tests.
Who it suits
A good fit if you
- Drafting and revising novels and short fiction with a Story Bible
- Authors who want to try several AI models on the same scene
- Developmental, line and copy edits from Feedback on Professional or Max
- Dictating prose on a phone with Smart Dictation
- Writers who want a written promise that their work is not used for training
Look elsewhere if you
- Trying for free over time: there is no free plan
- Marketing copy, research or general questions: Chat is built for fiction
- Writing inside Word or Google Docs: no add-in documented
- Predictable word counts: credit costs vary by task and model
Plans and prices
| Plan | Monthly | Yearly | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sudowrite Hobby & Student$10/mo paid annually; 12 x $10 = $120. | $19 a month | $120 a year | Nov 4, 2026 Source |
| Sudowrite Professional$22/mo paid annually; 12 x $22 = $264. | $29 a month | $264 a year | Nov 4, 2026 Source |
| Sudowrite Max$44/mo paid annually; 12 x $44 = $528. | $59 a month | $528 a year | Nov 4, 2026 Source |
Prices for United States, before sales tax unless a plan says otherwise. A yearly plan is paid up front and is not cancel-any-time.
Features by plan
What Sudowrite documents for each plan. A hatched mark means we could not verify it, which is not the same as "not offered".
| Feature | Sudowrite Hobby & Student | Sudowrite Professional | Sudowrite Max |
|---|---|---|---|
| Models and limits | |||
| Top models included | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Context window | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear |
| Models from several companies | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| General-purpose assistant | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear |
| Research and sources | |||
| Web search with sources | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear |
| Files and data | |||
| File and document uploads | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Images, video and voice | |||
| Image generation | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Real-time voice | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear |
| Image editing and design | |||
| Photo editing | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear |
| Text inside images | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear |
| Music, voice and transcription | |||
| Voiceover from text | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear |
| Transcription | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear |
| Dictation into any app | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Writing and slides | |||
| Grammar and spelling checks | No | Yes | Yes |
| Paraphrasing and tone changes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Projects and memory | |||
| Projects | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Custom assistants | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear |
| Memory across chats | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear |
| Integrations and agents | |||
| Connectors to other apps | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear |
| Inside Google Docs | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear |
| Inside Word | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear |
| Browser agent | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear |
| Privacy and control | |||
| Opt out of model training | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Export your data | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Shows ads | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear |
| Rights and licensing | |||
| Commercial use of outputs | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Apps and extras | |||
| Cloud storage included | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear |
| Apps | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Usage included | Yes | Yes | Yes |
The details and sources of every row are in Compare two AIs and the data release.
What it documents for each use
- Writing & Content Fix grammar and tone in my writing
- Images & Design Create images from a description · Make graphics for posts and slides
- Audio & Voice Dictate text into any app
A use is listed when at least one plan documents every feature a task needs. Answer quality is a separate question: see below.
Using it day to day
Sudowrite runs on the web, with companion iOS and Android apps that offer Smart Dictation, Write, Rewrite and Chat; projects sync between them and the plan covers both. Smart Dictation turns speech into formatted prose with punctuation and character names. In Chat, "Allow edits" lets it make multi-step changes inside your project. Visualize turns 10 to 500 words of description into an image for 2,500 credits, and Story Bible can generate character portraits and worldbuilding images in set styles.
Usage is counted in credits: 225,000 a month on Hobby & Student, 1,000,000 on Professional and 2,000,000 on Max. Costs vary by task and model. Credits expire monthly except on Max, where they roll over for up to 12 months, and Chat-only mode and Quick Edit are free. Imports take .txt, .doc, .docx, .rtf and .odt files, Scrivener backups and a CSV of characters; PDF is not listed. Sudowrite has user-built Plugins, but their help articles are empty, so what they do is not verified.
Privacy, data and ads
Sudowrite's FAQ says it does not use your writing to train AI models, and no setting is needed. Its help center says what Sudowrite generates in response to your inputs is yours to own, use and distribute, and its Terms say all rights in your content remain with you. You can export everything as a .zip or a merged .docx, and your writing stays accessible even without a plan. Whether Sudowrite shows ads is not verified.
Read the vendor's own page: Sudowrite privacy and data controls. We make no legal or compliance claim.
Test results
We have not tested Sudowrite yet, so this page makes no claim about answer quality, and we show no example outputs. Run the same kit in it and in the alternatives, in your own account:
- Summarize a report with traceable facts
- Analyze a spreadsheet and get the numbers right
- Edit an email without losing a detail
- Diagnose and repair a small program
- Research a question with sources that support the answer
- Make sense of documents that disagree
- Research a current question within a date window
- Edit an article without changing its facts
- Turn project notes into a report that agrees with itself
- Implement a small specification
- Refactor code without changing what it does
- Make a picture that follows a detailed brief
- Put exact text into a graphic
- Change one thing in a picture and nothing else
- Make a short clip that follows a brief
- Make a song that sings your lyrics exactly
- Read a script with names, numbers and abbreviations
- Design a logo with an exact name
Getting started
- Start with the trial on the pricing page. Sudowrite's pages describe it differently, so check what you get when you sign up.
- Fill in the Story Bible for one project first: genre, style, synopsis, characters and outline. Every tool uses it.
- Use Chat-only mode and Quick Edit while you learn, since they cost no credits, and watch the credit cost of bigger models.
- Choose a plan by credits: Hobby & Student for occasional drafting, Professional for Feedback, Max if you want credits to roll over.
- Compare Sudowrite with other writing tools on our tools page, and read how we check vendor claims.
Your fit
Tell Find my AI what you do and what matters; it checks every plan of Sudowrite against your priorities, next to the alternatives.
Alternatives
- Claude Claude Pro, at $20 a month or $200 a year, is a general assistant rather than a fiction app, and lets you turn Model Improvement off in Privacy Settings. About Claude
- ChatGPT ChatGPT has a free plan, and OpenAI's Terms say you own the output on every plan; you can turn off model training in Settings > Data controls. About ChatGPT
- Grammarly If you need grammar and spelling checks rather than drafting, Grammarly has a free plan that checks as you type, and Pro at $30 a month adds full-sentence rewrites and 2,000 AI prompts a month. About Grammarly
Recent changes
- Sudowrite Max added
- Sudowrite Professional added
- Sudowrite Hobby & Student added
Every change is in the change log.
Questions
Is Sudowrite free?
No. Sudowrite has no free plan. Its pricing page offers a free trial with no credit card, its help center describes a 7-day refund window, and the mobile app gives new accounts a limited number of trial credits.
How much does Sudowrite cost?
Hobby & Student is $19 a month or $10 a month paid annually, Professional $29 or $22, and Max $59 or $44. Paid annually, that is $120, $264 or $528 a year by our calculation. Sudowrite does not say whether tax is included.
How many words do Sudowrite credits give you?
It depends on the task and the model. Sudowrite estimates Professional's 1,000,000 credits a month at roughly 50,000 to 500,000 AI words. Hobby & Student has 225,000 credits and Max 2,000,000.
Does Sudowrite own my writing?
No. Sudowrite's help center says what it generates in response to your inputs is yours to own, use and distribute, and its Terms say all rights in your content remain with you.
Does Sudowrite train AI on my writing?
Sudowrite's FAQ says it does not use your writing to train AI models, on any plan, with no setting needed.
Do Sudowrite credits roll over?
Only on Max, where unused credits roll over for up to 12 months. On Hobby & Student and Professional they expire monthly.
Sources
14 official pages, checked Nov 4, 2026. This page was written by the What the tech desk with AI assistance from the facts in our data release; no company paid for or reviewed it.
- Which AI model should I use? | Sudowrite DocsSudowrite
- Sudowrite - Plans and PricingSudowrite
- Importing Files | Sudowrite DocsSudowrite
- Visualize | Sudowrite DocsSudowrite
- Smart Dictation | Sudowrite DocsSudowrite
- Intellectual Property and Ownership | Sudowrite DocsSudowrite
- Chat | Sudowrite DocsSudowrite
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) | SudowriteSudowrite
- Exporting Files | Sudowrite DocsSudowrite
- Mobile App Overview | Sudowrite DocsSudowrite
- Feedback | Sudowrite DocsSudowrite
- What plans are available? | Sudowrite DocsSudowrite
- What are credits? | Sudowrite DocsSudowrite
- Do credits roll over? | Sudowrite DocsSudowrite
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- What the tech
- Reviewed by
- Peyman Khosravani
- Review scope
- Checked that this page matches the facts in data release 2026.11.07-2: a check against documented sources, not a hands-on test of the product.
- Evidence
- Facts documented by each company, each linked to its official source and dated. Test results appear only where an editor ran the test.
- Data release
- 2026.11.07-2, Nov 7, 2026
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