How to Cancel Grammarly Premium (2026) — Free Tier Does Most of It
Updated 2026-02-14 · 5 min read
Grammarly Premium costs $12/month (annual) or $30/month (monthly). That's $144-$360/year for grammar checking — something AI chatbots now do for free. Here's how to cancel and whether the free tier is enough.
You keep Premium until the end of your billing period, then drop to Free
📱 Subscribed via Apple/Google? Cancel through Settings → Subscriptions on your phone, not the Grammarly website.
Free vs. Premium: What You Actually Lose
Free (Keep)
Premium Only (Lose)
Grammar & spelling checks
Tone detection
Basic punctuation
Sentence rewrites
Conciseness suggestions
Vocabulary enhancement
Browser extension
Plagiarism detection
Limited AI writing
Full GrammarlyGO AI
💡 Reality Check: For 90% of people, Grammarly Free catches the errors that matter (spelling, grammar, basic punctuation). The Premium features — tone detection, vocabulary enhancement — are nice-to-haves, not must-haves. And ChatGPT/Claude do all of this for free.
Retention Offers
40-50% off for the next billing period — most common
Free month extension
Annual plan discount — switch from monthly ($30) to annual ($12/mo)
Free Alternatives
Grammarly Free: Still catches 80% of issues — just keep the free tier
ChatGPT/Claude: Paste text and say "proofread this" — catches everything + rewrites
Microsoft Editor: Free, built into Edge and Word — similar to Grammarly Free