A 5,000-word draft goes through in three passes. One rewrite run takes up to 12,000 characters, which is about 2,000 words, so three blocks cover the whole piece. The free tier gives you 10 credits a day with no account, no login, no card and no email address to verify, and the rewrite costs 1 credit per 50 words. What decides whether this takes ten minutes or an afternoon is where you cut the draft. Cut at your own section breaks rather than at word 2,000, and check each block before you rewrite it, because a check costs 1 credit no matter how much text is in the run.
Five thousand words is three runs of roughly 1,700. You could take the first 2,000 words, then the next 2,000, then the last 1,000, and it would run, but two of those blocks would start and end in the middle of an argument. Almost every 5,000-word piece already has joints: headed sections in a report, chapters in a dissertation, an argument that turns at one specific paragraph. Use the joints you already wrote.
The character count is the number that governs a rewrite run, not the word count, so check it before you commit to a split. The free word counter gives you words and characters together, and the tool box on this page counts your words as you paste and tells you how many characters you are over the limit. Twelve thousand characters is about 2,000 words of ordinary prose, fewer if your writing is dense with long technical terms. Aim for blocks of 1,400 to 1,900 words and you will not get near the ceiling.
A split that works for most 5,000-word academic or long-form pieces:
The rewrite only sees the text in the box. Whatever sits outside it does not exist for the model, which is why a cut in the wrong place shows up in the output. Split a paragraph down the middle and the second pass inherits a "this" with no antecedent, a term you defined two paragraphs earlier, a contrast whose first half is in the other block. Sentence by sentence the result reads fine. Read across the seam and it does not.
A section is the smallest unit that carries its own argument. It states something, supports it, and closes it. Give the rewrite the whole unit and the terminology stays consistent across it, the pronouns keep pointing at real nouns, and the paragraph that summarises the section still summarises the section. That is also the unit your reader processes, so it is the right unit to judge the result on.
The two tools are priced completely differently, and that difference is the whole strategy. A check is 1 credit per run whatever is in the run, so a 2,000-word block and a 70-word paragraph both cost 1, and it takes seconds either way. The rewrite is 1 credit per 50 words, so a full 2,000-word pass is 40 credits and all 5,000 words rewritten end to end is 100. The 12,000-character ceiling applies to the rewrite run.
The free allowance is 10 credits a day per network, and it refills. Read that against the prices and the order of operations is obvious. Checking is the cheap half, so check all three blocks for 3 credits and find out which one is actually the problem. Rewriting is the scarce half, so spend it on the section the check pointed at instead of on 5,000 words that mostly did not need touching. Three checks leave you 7 credits, which is 350 words of rewriting. If two whole sections come back flagged and you want both rewritten in full, that is more than one day of the free allowance, so do the worst one today and the second one tomorrow.
Everything else on the site is free with no daily limit at all: the registry of named AI writing tells, the AI vocabulary checker, the proofreader, the readability checker, the word counter, the plagiarism and originality check, and the signed drafting record. On a document this long they are worth opening first, because anything you settle with them costs nothing against the ten.
Check a block before you rewrite it. You get a 0 to 100 score and one of three verdicts: reads as AI-generated, borderline, or reads as human-written. The minimum is 65 words, which nothing in a 5,000-word draft will trouble unless you are checking a single abstract or a set of bullet points on its own.
A long document is rarely uniform, so do not treat one score as a property of the whole thing. Check the blocks separately. The place to look first is whatever you drafted fastest and edited least, which for most people is the introduction, the background summary and the conclusion, while the section you argued your way through was written rather than assembled. Three checks at 1 credit each turn a vague worry about 5,000 words into a specific problem in one of them.
Once you know which block it is, the tells registry tells you whether you need the rewrite at all. It names each pattern and highlights each one where it occurs in your text, free and unlimited. Three sentences of stacked hedging and two stock openers you can delete yourself in a minute. A section where nearly every sentence lands at the same length is the case for spending credits, because fixing rhythm by hand across a whole section is slow work.
Reassemble the three passes in order and read the two joins. Each pass only saw its own block, so the joins are the part of the document only you can put back together. A term you set up in pass one can come back slightly renamed in pass two. A transition can stop matching, because the sentence that opened pass two was written to follow something the rewrite could not see.
Both are two-minute fixes by hand, and both are more visible to a marker than any score. Then run one final check on the reassembled document, which is the only reading that describes the version you are actually handing in. If what you need is evidence of your own process rather than a number, the drafting record keeps a signed, timestamped history of the document as you write it, and anyone can verify that record in the browser without an account.
One pass through the sequence, assuming a 5,000-word draft and a fresh 10 credits.
Not for the rewrite. A rewrite run takes up to 12,000 characters, which is about 2,000 words, so a 5,000-word draft goes through in three. The box counts your words as you paste and shows exactly how many characters you are over, so you can trim back to a clean section break before you run it.
The rewrite is 1 credit per 50 words, so 5,000 words rewritten end to end is 100 credits. A check is 1 credit per run whatever its length, so checking all three blocks costs 3. The free allowance is 10 credits a day per network and it refills, which is why the checks come first: 3 credits tells you which block needs the rewrite and which one is fine as it stands.
Yes. Ten credits a day, no account, no login, no card and no email address to verify. The registry of AI writing tells, the proofreader, the word counter, the readability checker, the AI vocabulary checker, the originality check and the signed drafting record have no daily limit at all.
Not if you split where the writing already splits. Cut at a heading or a clean paragraph break and each pass holds a complete argument. Cut mid-paragraph and the second pass opens with a pronoun whose subject is in the other block, and you will be fixing that by hand afterwards.
The checker needs 65 words and the rewrite needs 25. On a 5,000-word piece that only matters for a short standalone element, like a 40-word summary line or a list of bullet points, which is too short to check on its own. Check it inside the section around it instead.
Because a long document is not written at one speed. The sections you drafted quickly and edited lightly usually read differently from the ones you worked over, and the check is what tells you which is which. That is good news on a long piece: the work in front of you is one section, not the whole draft.
Rewriting a draft you were permitted to generate is ordinary editing. Where AI is not permitted in submitted work, that rule covers the draft however it is edited. Read the policy that applies to your course.