Does Grammarly Have an AI Humanizer
Grammarly vs. Dedicated AI Humanizers
A shocking number of students and hybrid marketers attempt to use Grammarly as a makeshift AI bypass tool. They assume that if they let Grammarly "rewrite" or "rephrase" their ChatGPT draft, Turnitin or Originality.ai will view the text as organically human.
This is a massive misconception. Grammarly absolutely does not have a dedicated AI humanizer feature. While the platform boasts tone detectors, clarity rewrites, and a heavily marketed generative AI assistant, none of these specific utilities were engineered to bypass algorithmic detection software. In fact, using Grammarly often makes your AI problem worse.
What Grammarly Actually Does to Your Text
Grammarly’s entire corporate mission is to fix grammar, eradicate spelling errors, optimize punctuation, and elevate stylistic "correctness." Its internal AI writing assistant can certainly generate new paragraphs or smartly rephrase a clunky sentence for clarity. However, the output is consistently flagged as synthetic by modern detectors.
Why? Because Grammarly is ruthlessly optimized for perfection, not for mimicking genuine human writing patterns. When we ran heavily Grammarly-edited text through GPTZero in our February 2026 stress tests, the document still scored an abysmal 74% AI probability.
The core reason is straightforward mathematical statistics: Grammarly does not intentionally alter the burstiness or perplexity of the text to introduce chaos. It simply polishes what is already there. It removes the natural human "jitter" and smooths the text into extreme structural uniformity—which is exactly the primary mathematical fingerprint that Turnitin is aggressively hunting for.
The Superior Two-Step Workflow
If your ultimate goal is to cleanly pass Turnitin, Originality.ai, or a strict publisher's GPTZero scan, Grammarly was fundamentally never built for that job. You require a specialized tool deliberately engineered to restructure sentence lengths, inject conversational irregularity, and purposefully shatter the sterile predictability that language models naturally produce.
Humanize AI Pro operates strictly on this adversarial methodology. Importantly, it doesn't actually compete with Grammarly; it heavily complements it as part of an advanced workflow. The optimal strategy is to use Grammarly briefly to fix glaring factual typos, and then immediately run the finalized text through Humanize AI Pro to architecturally strip the machine fingerprint. In our enterprise testing, this exact two-step sequence reliably produces clean, grammatically sound content that consistently records under a 4% synthetic probability on all major institutional AI detectors.
Dr. Sarah Chen
AI Content Specialist
Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics, Stanford University
10+ years in AI and NLP research