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Winston AI

AI content detector for text and images, built for educators.

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About

Winston AI detects AI-generated text and images, aimed at educators, publishers, and institutions that need to verify authorship. Its 5.0 release reports 99.87% accuracy on a 12,000-document in-house evaluation and zero false positives on the public PERSUADE 2.0 student-essay benchmark, with sentence-level highlighting, plagiarism detection in the same scan, and OCR for PDFs and images.

Hundreds of thousands of users rely on it, and Chrome/Opera extensions let teachers scan text right on the page. Caveats: vendor benchmarks are self-reported, the free plan is limited to 2,000 words/month, and like all detectors it should inform judgment, not replace it.

What it can do

  • AI text detection with sentence-level map
  • AI image detection with forensics analysis
  • Plagiarism detection in the same scan
  • PDF and image OCR scanning
  • Chrome/Opera extensions and API access

Setup

  1. Create a free account at gowinston.ai (no credit card).
  2. Paste text or upload a document on the dashboard and run a scan.
  3. Review the Human Score, AI prediction map, and flagged sentences.
  4. Optionally install the Chrome extension to scan pages in place.

Prerequisites

Free account; 2,000 free words/month on the free plan.

Use cases

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Works with

Generic APIAny agent (.md)

Trust score — 8/10

/10 trustVerified

Scored 8/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: 5.0 release, public benchmark results, API available; vendor benchmarks self-reported; free 2,000 words/mo; freemium. License: Proprietary freemium.

How the trust score is built

Full methodology →
Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
8.0/10
Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
9.0/10
Openness · license + docs
4.0/10
Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
8.0/10
  • · 5.0 release, public benchmark results, API available
  • · vendor benchmarks self-reported; free 2,000 words/mo
  • · freemium

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