ProWritingAid prices credits and promises to delete text

The writer's problem

An author working on a long manuscript needs two different answers before committing it to a third-party editing service: what the tool costs across the length of a project, and what happens to the unpublished text itself once it is uploaded. ProWritingAid publishes a pricing page and a separate data-safety article, and a working writer should read both before sending a full draft through it.

What the documents show

As retrieved on 16 September 2026, the pricing page lists a Free plan with a Story Canvas, writing sessions, two line-editing report runs a day up to 500 words, limited daily Rephrases, grammar checking, and access to more than 40 document types. Premium costs 30 dollars a month, or 10 dollars monthly billed annually at 120 dollars a year, or a one-time 399-dollar lifetime option, and adds unlimited line-editing reports and Rephrases, one Chapter Critique a day, a custom style guide and dictionary, and collaborative features. Premium Pro costs 36 dollars monthly, or 12 dollars monthly billed annually at 144 dollars a year, or 699 dollars for a lifetime licence, and adds more daily Chapter Critiques and live workshops. Separately, the data-safety article states submitted text is kept only for the seconds it takes to process and generate reports, and that the company never uses a writer's data to train its AI models or algorithms. It notes one exception: documents made in the product's own Web Editor are stored encrypted in the cloud rather than deleted.

The editorial choice

Reading the pricing and data-safety pages together surfaces a distinction worth making explicit: the delete-after-processing promise applies to the general checking pipeline, but the Web Editor is a different, persistent-storage path described on the same page. An author working on an unpublished or under-option manuscript who wants deletion specifically, rather than encrypted cloud storage, should choose the entry point the article actually describes as deleting text, rather than assuming every route into the product behaves identically.

What stays with the author

A lifetime plan is a one-time payment, but the data-handling assurances sit on a living policy page describing current practice as retrieved on 16 September 2026, not a guarantee against every future change; a cautious author rereads the current privacy page periodically rather than relying on an old reading. Neither document states whether generated reports themselves, as opposed to the submitted text, are retained against an account after the brief processing window, which remains open here.

• Which entry point into the product is actually being used, and does the deletion promise apply to it?
• Does a lifetime plan's price make sense against how many manuscripts will realistically pass through the tool?
• Are generated reports, as distinct from the submitted text, retained anywhere the current page does not describe?

ProWritingAid's own pages separate cost from data handling clearly, and the one exception they name, the Web Editor's cloud storage, is exactly the detail a manuscript's author should not skip past.