Pangram's Free AI Checker Is at pangram.com; the Lookalike Domains Name No Operator

Pangram Labs publishes its detector at pangram.com, and every company figure below comes off a page on that domain. Two near-identical addresses, pangramaidetector.com and pangramaidetector.org, run checkers of their own under the same product name. Neither names a company or states a tie to Pangram Labs ⁶⁷. A third sits inside a humanizer site ⁸.

The .com lookalike leads with 99.98 percent accuracy and calls that figure independently verified. It names two universities and offers a scan with no login ⁶. It also carries a caveat of its own, that no detector should be the sole basis for an accusation of academic dishonesty ⁶.

Pangram Labs headlines accuracy above 99.9 percent on its homepage and describes the figure as third-party verified ². In its false-positive post it puts the rate at approximately 1 in 10,000 and says the figure moves with the kind of writing ⁴. The .com lookalike headlines a figure of its own with no company behind it ⁶.

Each accuracy claim in this set comes with a caveat somewhere on its page. The difference is the name. Pangram Labs puts its own on its pages; the two lookalike domains carry a product name with nobody behind it ⁶⁷, and the humanizer page names only its own site ⁸.

The .org lookalike writes more carefully and still names nobody. The page says AI detection is a strong signal rather than a certainty, and the copyright line carries the product name with no company or address behind it ⁷.

Then there is the odd one. A humanizer site, aitohumantextconverter.com, hosts a page titled "Pangram AI Detector - Free AI Text Detector Tool" promising unlimited scans with no account, on the same domain that offers a free tool for converting AI text into human-like text ⁸. The detector page carries its own soft caveat, that no detector is fully infallible and heavily edited or paraphrased content can sit in a gray zone ⁸. The copyright notice names the converter site. Nothing on the page claims a license from Pangram Labs. Nothing says what model runs the scan.

That combination is worth seeing before a student's paragraph goes into it.

Two meters, on two pages of pangram.com, both read on 18 September 2026. The pricing page lists the free plan at 2,000 words a day with no payment method needed ¹. The homepage FAQ answers the same question in a different unit: twenty free checks a day after signing up for the free plan, including AI assistance detection ². Both were live that day.

The figures need not contradict each other. One counts words and one counts submissions. The 3 free scans a day beside the word limit count image detection, a separate product line ¹; lifted out of its row, that figure reads as the free text allowance, and it is not that.

Neither page says how the two text limits interact. If both apply, then at 600 words a paper the word limit runs out after the third essay, long before the twentieth check, and below 100 words a paper the check limit binds first.

Sign-up matters more than either number. The pricing page says no payment method is needed ¹, and the FAQ says the twenty checks arrive after signing up ². A free check at pangram.com is free of charge, not free of an account. For a teacher who wanted to paste one paragraph and leave, that is a detour at the moment it is least welcome, and the lookalikes ask for nothing.

No, once the units are read. A pricing table states a quota. A support answer states the allowance in checks. And the product row states a limit for something else entirely. Each figure was live on its own page on 18 September 2026 ¹². A search result that lifts one figure away from its page strips the unit that made it true.

The free tier's reading has a history of its own, and the dates matter. At launch in December 2025 Pangram Labs said AI-assistance detection was off by default on the free plan, so free users would see lightly assisted text as Human and moderately assisted text as AI-generated ³. On 18 September 2026 its pricing page ¹ and homepage FAQ ² both list AI assistance detection as included on the free plan, so the launch-day limit reads as lifted. Neither current page says whether the free reading still differs from the paid one in any other way.

A teacher who saw the December post and planned around a coarse free reading is planning around a condition the vendor's current pages no longer state. Read the pricing page on the day of the check.

Reading a Mixed result covers how that verdict reads on this vendor's own account.

A name. On pangram.com a reading comes from a company that publishes its own limits. Pangram Labs states its false positive rate as approximately 1 in 10,000 and says it moves with the kind of writing ⁴. The .com lookalike leads with 99.98 percent, calls it independently verified, and carries a sole-basis caveat of its own ⁶. What neither lookalike domain states is a company behind the page ⁶⁷.

Human, at human.olive.is, holds itself to the same test: as of September 2026, 0 wrongly flagged by Human's default model of 600 human-written papers it had never been trained on; the ceiling on that is 0.498%. This is an estimate from our detector. A flag should be reason to look closer and not verified proof of cheating. The number is Human's own in-house measurement on a held-out set Human built, and no independent audit has repeated it.

Free tiers are also within a student's reach. A class where half the room has already run its own draft through a free checker a student reaches for is a different conversation from a class where nobody has. A student's screenshot of a clean free result is a reading of one draft on one day, from whichever page the student happened to find. The page matters as much as the number.

The reading opens a question. The draft history answers it.

The address bar is the first check, and it costs nothing. Pangram Labs states in its privacy policy that submissions to Pangram are not used to train its AI or machine learning systems ⁵. Neither lookalike names a company or an address, so its privacy statement is a promise from nobody in particular ⁶⁷.

A student's draft is that student's record before it is anybody's test case.

Three habits help:

• Type pangram.com into the address bar, because the lookalikes appeared for the same search on 18 September 2026.
• Check the footer for a company name before pasting anything a student wrote.
• Treat a free reading as one reading of one draft, from whichever page produced it.

Past the free tier, the published route is a quote rather than a price: Pangram Labs sells schools an institutional license and lists no figure for it ¹. What a school actually pays is settled in that conversation.

For one paper on a Tuesday afternoon, none of that is needed. A real domain, an honest meter and a reading treated as a prompt will do.