Best AI Writing Tools in 2026

After 120 hours of testing, Jasper remains the gold standard for long-form content — but only if you can justify the price. The SEO integration alone is worth it for serious content operations.

Copy.ai excels at speed and short-form content. The free plan is genuinely useful and the 45% commission is the best in the industry.

Grammarly evolved from spell-checker to writing platform. The tone and style consistency features are genuinely valuable for teams. For solo writers, the free plan or $12 Premium is usually enough.

At $16/mo, Writesonic punches well above its price. The quality won't win awards but it's solidly good for most blog content.

Koala Writer is built specifically for affiliate site operators. The SERP-aware outlines and one-click WordPress publish make it the fastest path from keyword to live post we've tested.

Anyword's predictive scoring is genuinely useful if you run paid ads — seeing a predicted CTR before you publish is a real differentiator. For blog content, look elsewhere.

QuillBot is the most-used AI writing helper most people haven't heard of. The paraphraser is best-in-class for rewrites. Not a creator — a polisher.

Rytr is the honest budget option. At $9/mo it outpunches its price for short copy — emails, product descriptions, social posts. Don't expect Jasper quality, but for the price it's hard to beat.

Sudowrite is so specialized it doesn't belong in a general comparison — but if you're a fiction writer, nothing else comes close.