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Astra AI Detector shows probability, not proof — no AI checker is 100% accurate.
Detection you can read
Check text for AI-generated writing. Get an instant AI score, sentence-level signals, and the patterns behind the result.
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Astra AI Detector shows probability, not proof — no AI checker is 100% accurate.
A plain-English definition — and how Astra turns raw statistical signals into something you can actually read.
An AI detector — also called an AI checker or AI content detector — estimates how likely a piece of writing was produced by a large language model such as ChatGPT, GPT-5, Claude or Gemini, rather than written by a person.
It doesn't look for a hidden watermark or a secret label. Instead it reads the text itself for the statistical fingerprints machines tend to leave behind — chiefly how predictable the word choices are and how uniform the sentence rhythm is — and turns that into a likelihood score.
Astra runs that analysis entirely in your browser and shows you the exact sentences and signals behind every flag, so a result is something you can read, question and act on — not just a number. Whether you call it an AI checker, an AI text detector or an AI writing detector, the job is the same: tell you, with evidence, how much of a text looks AI-generated.
From paste to verdict in a few seconds — no account, no queue, and nothing sent to a server.
Paste any passage into the box above, or upload a TXT, PDF, DOC or DOCX file. Around 40 words or more gives the most reliable read — very short snippets are far less certain.
Astra analyzes the writing on your own device in a few seconds — no account, no queue and nothing sent to a server.
You get an overall AI score, a human-vs-AI breakdown, and sentence-level highlights showing which parts look machine-written and how strongly, so you know exactly where to look.
A probability, not a verdict — and how to weigh a borderline number.
The percentage at the top is a likelihood, not a verdict — it answers “is this AI generated?” in terms of probability, not proof. A high score means the writing closely matches patterns typical of AI text; a low score means it reads more like a person wrote it. The colored highlights break that down sentence by sentence, so you can tell whether a whole document or just a few passages look generated, and whether a piece is fully human, fully AI, or a mix.
Because the result is probabilistic, treat it as evidence to weigh alongside context, never as the final word. A borderline score is a prompt to read carefully rather than a confident answer either way.
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Llama — and mixed drafts too.
AI writing no longer comes from one place — so Astra is built to detect AI-generated text from today's most-used models, and it's updated as new ones arrive.
It also handles mixed writing, flagging the specific sentences that read as AI inside an otherwise human draft, so part-AI work doesn't slip through as a single clean score.
Focusing on one model? The ChatGPT detector covers ChatGPT, GPT-5 and GPT-4 alongside the rest.
Essays, blog posts, emails, reports — the same analysis works whatever the format.
People call it an AI text detector, an AI writing checker or an AI content detector — but it's all after the same thing: a reliable read on whether writing is human or machine.
Astra covers that whole space. The analysis and the sentence-level evidence work the same way whatever the format, so you can settle “is this AI or human?” for almost any kind of text.
For editorial and professional review, the AI content detector for publishers and writers adds workflow guidance; for text that's been reworded, the paraphrase detector catches AI that has been rewritten or “humanized.”
No sign-up, no limits, nothing installed — and your text never leaves your device.
Astra is a free AI checker you can use as often as you like — and a genuinely private one, because your text never leaves your device.
Independent guides warn that many detectors upload your writing to a server, and some store it or reserve the right to train on it. Astra analyzes your text on your own device, so it is never uploaded, stored, logged or used for training — which matters for unpublished, confidential or personal writing.
See exactly how in-browser detection keeps your writing private on the private AI detector.
Students, educators and publishers use Astra to protect honest writing and verify what they publish.
Run your own draft privately before you publish or submit, and see exactly which passages a detector flags — and why.
Check your textReview student work responsibly, with sentence-level evidence and honest limits.
How professors detect AIVerify content is human-written before you publish or pay a freelancer.
AI content detectorThe methods, the limits, the privacy model and the harder cases — explained in plain English.
Perplexity, burstiness and token-level signals, explained in plain English.
How AI detection worksHow we test, the false-positive problem, and why no detector is 100%.
AI detector accuracyA detector does this for you, but a handful of habits give machine writing away to the naked eye.
Learning to read the tells makes you a better user of any AI detector. None of these signs proves anything on its own — plenty of careful humans write this way, and a model can be told to hide its habits — so treat them as reasons to look closer, then confirm with the tool and the context.
Paragraphs of near-identical length, a tidy intro-body-conclusion, and sentences that all run about the same length. Real writing is lumpier and changes pace.
Confident, broad statements with few concrete names, numbers, dates or first-hand details. If you can't find a single fact only this author would know, stay curious.
A pile-up of moreover, furthermore, it's important to note, in today's ever-evolving landscape and a neat in conclusion.
Words like delve, robust, tapestry, navigate and underscore showing up far more often than a person would reach for them.
Every point gets equal weight, nothing is messy or opinionated, and the whole thing stays cheerfully neutral.
Heavy, consistent em-dash use doing three different jobs in one short paragraph — though some models have been updated to stop defaulting to them on request, so their absence proves nothing either.
Reading for these patterns tells you where to look; Astra's score and sentence-level highlights tell you how strongly a passage matches machine writing. The two together beat either one alone.
Paste the same text into two tools and the numbers rarely match — here's what's actually going on.
Getting different results from different AI detectors doesn't mean one is lying. The tools are answering slightly different questions.
Each detector learns from its own mix of human and AI writing. A tool tuned on last year's models can miss text from a newer one, and one trained mostly on essays may misread marketing copy or code.
One tool leans on how predictable the word choices are, another on how much sentence style varies, another on vocabulary — so they emphasize different clues in the same passage.
Every detector picks a threshold where probably human flips to probably AI. A stricter cut-off flags more writing; a looser one flags less.
A 70% might mean 70% of sentences were highlighted in one product and a high-likelihood band in another. The numbers look comparable but rarely share a denominator.
The practical takeaway: don't average scores from different tools as if they measured the same thing, and never treat a lone percentage as a verdict. Read what a given score actually represents, look at which sentences drove it, and weigh the writing and its context. Astra shows sentence-level highlights precisely so you can see why a number came out the way it did, rather than trusting the number alone.
It's genuinely useful for some decisions and genuinely risky for others.
An AI detector is a screening tool, not a judge. Knowing which job it's good for keeps you out of trouble.
Good uses. Checking your own draft before you submit or publish; spot-checking a passage that reads oddly; triaging a large batch of documents to decide what deserves a closer read; giving yourself specific evidence to open an honest conversation with a writer. In all of these the score points you somewhere — it doesn't end the discussion.
Where a score shouldn't decide. Grading, hiring, discipline, or any accusation that touches someone's record or livelihood should never rest on a detector percentage alone. False positives are real — formal, technical or non-native English can read as machine-written — and heavily edited or paraphrased AI can slip through clean. A high number is a reason to look harder, not proof.
When the stakes are real, combine three things: the score, the sentence-level evidence behind it, and outside context such as draft history, earlier work in the person's own voice, or specific first-hand detail a model wouldn't know. If those line up, you have a case; if they conflict, trust the evidence over the percentage.
They do opposite jobs — one measures, the other evades.
An AI detector estimates whether text was written by AI; an AI humanizer rewrites AI text to try to hide that it was.
An AI detector (or AI checker) reads writing for the statistical fingerprints of machine text — predictable word choices and uniform sentence rhythm — and returns a probability score with the sentences behind it. An AI humanizer does the reverse: it paraphrases and reshuffles AI output so it reads as if a person wrote it, specifically to slip past detectors. One measures; the other evades.
Astra sits firmly on the detector side. It will never rewrite or “humanize” your text, and it will never help disguise AI writing. What it does do is catch text that has already been humanized: the AI-refined signal reads meaning and structure rather than surface wording, so AI that has been paraphrased, reworded or run through a humanizer still shows up — the manipulated text many detectors miss. That is what makes Astra one of the more powerful detectors for real-world writing, where AI is rarely left untouched. To focus on rewritten AI, use the AI humanizer detector.
Most detectors upload your text and charge for volume. Astra runs free in your browser — and still flags AI that has been humanized to slip past other tools.
| Feature | Astra | GPTZero | Turnitin | Originality.ai |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free, unlimited | Freemium | Paid (institutions) | Paid (credits) |
| No sign-up | Yes | No | No | No |
| Runs in your browser, nothing uploaded | Yes | No | No | No |
| Sentence-level signals | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Catches humanized / paraphrased AI | AI-refined signal | Varies | Varies | Varies |
| Best for | Free, private self-checks | Teams & API | Institutions | Publishers & SEO |
No detector is perfect, and every score is a probability rather than proof. But on the things writers actually care about — cost, privacy, and catching reworded AI — Astra is built to hold its own against paid tools while staying free and sign-up-free. Competitor pricing and features change, so check each tool's current details before you decide.
AI writing rarely comes from a single place anymore. Astra is built to flag machine-written text whatever produced it — from frontier chat models to purpose-built writing assistants.
On the model side, that includes OpenAI's ChatGPT and the GPT family (GPT-6 Astra, GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5 and GPT-4o), Anthropic's Claude (Opus 5, Sonnet 5, Fable 5.1 and Haiku), Google Gemini, Meta Llama, xAI Grok, DeepSeek, Mistral, Alibaba Qwen, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot and Cohere Command — and it is updated as new models ship.
It also flags text from popular AI writing assistants such as Jasper, Copy.ai, Writesonic, Rytr and Notion AI, which are usually built on those same models. Astra does not try to name which tool wrote a passage — different models overlap far too much for reliable attribution — so it reads the underlying signals every one of them tends to leave behind. The source matters less than the fingerprint.
How to check text for AI, what the score means, and the limits worth knowing.
An AI detector estimates whether text was written by AI and shows the evidence; an AI humanizer rewrites AI text to hide it from detectors. They are opposites. Astra is a detector — it never rewrites or disguises writing, and its AI-refined signal is built to catch text that has already been humanized.
Yes, it can happen. Very formal, templated or non-native English sometimes shares the even, predictable patterns AI produces, which can make an AI detector return a false positive. That is why Astra reports a probability rather than a verdict: read a borderline score alongside context, and never treat it as proof on its own.
No catch. Astra runs entirely in your browser, so there are no per-check server costs to pass on, which is what lets this AI detector stay free, unlimited and sign-up-free. Your text is never uploaded, stored or sold, and there is no paywall a few checks in.
Not reliably. Astra is built to estimate human-vs-AI across today's major models — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and more — rather than name the exact one, because outputs from different models overlap too much for confident attribution. The sample buttons let you see how each model tends to read.
Astra is tuned for English text, so results on other languages are far less reliable and it may prompt you for English input. If you do check non-English writing, treat any score with extra caution and lean more on context.
Nothing meaningful — they're two names for the same kind of tool. 'AI text detector,' 'AI content detector' and 'AI writing checker' all describe software that estimates how likely a piece of writing was generated by AI.
Absolutely, and many people do exactly that to make sure honest, human work won't be misread before they submit or publish it. Because Astra runs entirely in your browser, nothing you paste is uploaded or stored, so checking your own drafts carries no privacy cost.
Paste or upload the text above and run the check. Astra returns an overall AI score, a human-vs-AI breakdown and sentence-level highlights showing which parts look machine-written — all processed in your browser.
An AI checker like Astra estimates the probability that writing is AI-generated and shows the signals behind it, such as unusually predictable wording and uniform sentence rhythm. Use the score and highlights as evidence alongside context — it's a strong indication, not absolute proof.
Yes, it's completely free — no account, no email, no word limit and no payment. It's an online tool with nothing to install.
Completely. Detection runs inside your browser; your text is never uploaded, stored, logged or used for training. Many other detectors send your text to a server — see the private AI detector.
No detector is 100% accurate — independent studies have measured popular tools well below their claims. Astra returns a probability, not proof, and false positives are possible. See accuracy & limitations.
ChatGPT, GPT-6, GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, Llama and DeepSeek, with updates as new models appear. See the ChatGPT & model detector.
Often — via the AI-refined signal, which reads meaning and structure rather than only wording. See the AI paraphrase & rewrite detector.
No. Astra is an online AI detector that runs in any modern browser on desktop or mobile.
Paste text directly, or upload TXT, PDF, DOC or DOCX files.
Around 40 words or more gives the most reliable result; very short snippets produce less certain scores.
An AI score is a signal, not evidence. Treat it as a reason to look more closely — read the flagged sentences alongside earlier drafts, edit history and the context you already have — never as a conclusion on its own.
Do not rely on an AI score as the sole basis for an accusation or for a decision that affects a person. AI detectors produce false positives, and a mistaken flag can have serious consequences for real people; any determination should rest on human judgement and corroborating evidence.
Use Astra in line with the academic-integrity, editorial or workplace policies that apply to you. Astra AI Detector is provided on an “as is” basis, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, and no result is guaranteed to be accurate.