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By the toolist.ai editors. Read from Sudowrite's pricing page, not hands-on tested by toolist.ai. Updated October 19, 2026.
Sudowrite pricing
Sudowrite's cheapest paid plan is Hobby & Student at $19 a month billed monthly, or $10 a month billed yearly. The free plan: None. A free trial with a limited number of credits needs no credit card (Sudowrite does not say how many credits); without a paid plan your documents stay readable and exportable, but no AI feature works.
Free plan: None. A free trial with a limited number of credits needs no credit card (Sudowrite does not say how many credits); without a paid plan your documents stay readable and exportable, but no AI feature works.
| Plan | Billed monthly | Billed yearly, per month | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hobby & Student | $19 | $10 | 225,000 credits a month, expiring at each monthly refresh; Write, Rewrite, Describe, Expand, Draft, Story Bible, style matching, series support, Chat and Quick Edit (both free of credits by default), Muse, Ballad and 30-plus other models; no Feedback; $120 a year billed yearly |
| Professional | $29 | $22 | 1,000,000 credits a month (the pricing page shows 450,000 struck through), expiring at each monthly refresh; everything in Hobby & Student plus Feedback: developmental, line, dialogue and copy edits and AI beta reads; $264 a year billed yearly |
| Max | $59 | $44 | 2,000,000 credits a month that roll over for up to 12 months while you stay on Max; everything in Professional; $528 a year billed yearly |
| Cost per finished minute | Not measured by us, and the vendor does not publish an allowance we can divide by. |
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Prices last checked: 2026-10-19 on Sudowrite's pricing page.
Price history
No price change since we first recorded these prices on October 19, 2026. We re-check them every week and list each change here.
To price your own month on Sudowrite and the tools like it, use the AI cost calculator.
Before you pay
- Credits do not map to words. Sudowrite's help center says it cannot predict what a feature will cost: the same 200-word Write used about 70 credits on GPT-5 Nano and over 8,000 on Claude 4.1 Opus, Muse costs more than the Basic mode, and Professional's 1,000,000 credits 'might allow' anywhere from 50,000 to 500,000 AI words a month. A character portrait costs 5,000 credits, so Hobby & Student's 225,000 cover 45. The Recent Activity log shows what each use cost.
- Monthly credits expire at each monthly refresh on Hobby & Student and Professional; only Max rolls unused credits over, for up to 12 months while the Max subscription stays active. Bought credits never expire, but every credit works only with an active plan, and Sudowrite's public pages do not list what extra credits cost (the US App Store lists in-app packs from $5.89 for 100,000 credits to $57.90 for 1.75 or 1.9 million).
- The pricing page opens on yearly billing, so Professional's '$22 per month' means $264 paid for the year; an August 2026 Trustpilot reviewer who chose what they took for a $22 monthly plan says they were charged $265 for the yearly Professional plan. The toggle's 'up to 50% off' is Hobby & Student's ($10 against $19, 47% less); Professional and Max save 24% and 25%.
- Refunds: the help center promises one if you ask within the first 7 days, but the terms (last updated April 11, 2025) say fees are not refunded on cancellation. Cancelling keeps your documents readable and exportable but stops every AI feature; only monthly plans can be paused (for up to three months), and the help center warns the pause needs a confirmation step that is easy to miss. Upgrades refund the unused part of the old plan pro rata and restart the billing cycle, and legacy-plan members lose their legacy bonuses if they switch.
- Buying in the iPhone app costs more: the US App Store lists Hobby & Student at $24.99 a month or $169.99 a year, Professional at $39.99 and Max at $84.99 a month, against $19 ($120 a year), $29 and $59 on the web. The mobile apps are companions centred on Write, Rewrite, Chat and Smart Dictation, series management stays on the web, and the App Store listing says English only.
- Testers hit the usual AI slips: Tom's Guide's Amanda Caswell (2024) had a character renamed mid-story and curly hair turned spiky, Zapier's Harry Guinness warns of nonsensical metaphors, clichéd plots and incoherent action, and TechRadar's reviewers describe a learning curve of sliders, models and layered controls. In January 2026 Caswell recommended Novelcrafter over Sudowrite for long or complex novels and series where continuity matters.
- The terms require users to be at least 18, though Hobby & Student is pitched at writing 'for school', and forbid using Sudowrite to create content 'political in nature'; Sudowrite may suspend or delete an account whose content it thinks would damage its reputation. Write matches the language you write in, but other features may fall back on English, and Muse works best in English.
- Trustpilot's score is 3.0 from 33 reviews on an unclaimed profile whose reviews Sudowrite has not invited; recent complaints describe half an hour blocked by a message that another AI request was still running, a long-draft edit that used up a month's credits in about an hour, and a sign-in lockout with slow support. The US App Store rates the iPhone app 4.4 from 390 ratings.
See the full Sudowrite review and how we research.
Sources
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- Sudowrite home page (features, plugins) (checked 2026-10-19)
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- Sudowrite FAQ (training on your writing, ownership, cancelling) (checked 2026-10-19)
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- Sudowrite help: Which plan should I get? (checked 2026-10-19)
- Sudowrite help: What are credits? (checked 2026-10-19)
- Sudowrite help: How many credits do features use? (checked 2026-10-19)
- Sudowrite help: Do credits roll over? (checked 2026-10-19)
- Sudowrite help: What if I need more credits? (checked 2026-10-19)
- Sudowrite help: Can I track my credit usage? (checked 2026-10-19)
- Sudowrite help: Is there a trial? (7-day refund) (checked 2026-10-19)
- Sudowrite help: How do I pause or cancel? (checked 2026-10-19)
- Sudowrite help: How do I upgrade? (checked 2026-10-19)
- Sudowrite help: Write (checked 2026-10-19)
- Sudowrite help: Rewrite (checked 2026-10-19)
- Sudowrite help: Quick Edit (checked 2026-10-19)
- Sudowrite help: What is Story Bible (checked 2026-10-19)
- Sudowrite help: Scenes & Draft (checked 2026-10-19)
- Sudowrite help: Series Support (checked 2026-10-19)
- Sudowrite help: Chat (checked 2026-10-19)
- Sudowrite help: Feedback (Professional and Max only) (checked 2026-10-19)
- Sudowrite help: Prose Modes & Models (Muse 1.5; Excellent listed as Claude 3.7 Sonnet) (checked 2026-10-19)
- Sudowrite help: Which AI model should I use? (Excellent is Ballad) (checked 2026-10-19)
- Sudowrite help: Sudowrite Muse (checked 2026-10-19)
- Sudowrite help: Portraits & Images (5,000 credits an image) (checked 2026-10-19)
- Sudowrite help: Importing Files (checked 2026-10-19)
- Sudowrite help: Exporting Files (checked 2026-10-19)
- Sudowrite help: Collaboration Options (share links, Clean Copy) (checked 2026-10-19)
- Sudowrite help: Mobile App Overview (iOS and Android, limited free trial credits) (checked 2026-10-19)
- Sudowrite help: Can I use Sudowrite in other languages? (checked 2026-10-19)
- Sudowrite changelog: New AI Models: Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol & GPT-6 Luna (September 22, 2026) (checked 2026-10-19)
- Sudowrite changelog: Faster Chat, Better Rewrite & Printing (September 22, 2026) (checked 2026-10-19)
- Sudowrite changelog: Improved Draft Estimates, Plus a Bunch of Fixes (August 14, 2026) (checked 2026-10-19)
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