undetectable ai has good marketing. their whole pitch is right in the name — paste in ai text, get undetectable text back. simple.
we wanted to see how it actually stacks up.
what undetectable ai does
it's a dedicated "humanizer" tool. you paste in text, pick a readability level, and it rewrites the content to bypass ai detectors. they have a built-in detector check so you can see scores before and after.
the results are decent. better than basic paraphrasers. but there are some real limitations.
where it falls short
it's a one-trick tool. you paste text in, you get text back. that's it. no editor, no drafting tool, no workflow. you're bouncing between chatgpt (to generate), undetectable ai (to humanize), and google docs (to edit). three tabs, three tools, lots of copy-pasting.
the output can sound off. undetectable ai sometimes over-corrects. it introduces awkward phrasing or weird word choices to tank the perplexity score. the text passes detectors but reads strangely to an actual human. you trade one problem for another.
no style control. you get what you get. can't match your writing voice or adjust the tone beyond basic readability settings.
how paraai handles it differently
paraai isn't just a humanizer. it's a full writing workspace.
our models are fine-tuned on real human-text corpora using state-of-the-art base models. the fine-tuning matters because it teaches the model what human writing actually looks like — not just how to dodge detectors, but how to produce text that genuinely reads well.
and it's part of a full workflow. cowrite drafts from your ideas. quill lets you edit with real-time ai suggestions. paraphrase rewrites anything into natural-sounding text. you don't need three separate tools.
the detector comparison
both tools bring ai detection scores down significantly. undetectable ai is good at this — it's literally all they do.
paraai matches or beats it on detection scores in our testing. but the output quality is noticeably better. paraai's rewrites sound like something a person would write. undetectable ai's rewrites sound like something designed to trick a detector. subtle difference but people notice.
who should use what
if all you need is a quick humanizer and you don't care about writing quality, undetectable ai works. it does one thing.
if you want untraceable ai writing that also reads well, and you want the full workflow (drafting, editing, rewriting) in one place, paraai is the better fit. we think the writing should sound good to humans too, not just fool machines.