Is Grammarly Premium Worth It in 2025? Honest Review

Grammarly Premium has been the dominant writing assistant for years. But with Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI tools now able to edit prose, is the $12-144/year still worth paying? Honest review for 2025.

Is Grammarly Premium Worth It in 2025? Honest Review

What Grammarly Premium Does Well

Grammarly remains best-in-class for inline editing within your writing environment. The browser extension catches errors in Gmail, Slack, Google Docs, and dozens of other platforms without copy-pasting. Real-time feedback as you type. Tone detection that shows how your writing might land with readers. These are genuinely useful features.

Where Grammarly Falls Short vs. Claude

For longer, more complex editing tasks — reworking an entire paragraph, restructuring an argument, adapting tone for a specific audience — Grammarly is weak compared to Claude Pro. Claude understands context deeply, can rewrite with specific constraints, and produces edits that sound like you intended to write that way. Grammarly often produces generic, sanitized suggestions.

Who Should Keep Grammarly Premium

• Non-native English speakers who benefit from real-time grammar feedback while typing
• Professionals who write primarily in browser-based tools (Gmail, Slack, Notion)
• Teams using Grammarly Business for style guide enforcement and consistency across writers

Who Should Switch to Claude Instead

• Writers who primarily edit in dedicated writing apps (Word, Google Docs, Scrivener)
• Anyone who wants to rewrite, not just fix: improving arguments, restructuring sections, adapting for different audiences
• Professionals doing content marketing who need substantial output, not just error correction

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