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Research checker: check a research paper for AI and plagiarism

A research checker should tell you two things: which sentences look AI-written and which passages match published work. PaperCheck does both for free, up to 20,000 words per check, 5 checks a week, and shows the result sentence by sentence.

Written by Adithyan, a student who builds PaperCheck. Last updated 2 November 2026.

What a research checker needs to do

  1. Handle a whole paper. Many free tools stop at a few hundred words. A paper or thesis is 5,000 to 20,000 words.
  2. Show where the problem is. A single percentage cannot be fixed. Flagged sentences can.
  3. Check both AI and copying. They are separate problems with separate fixes.
  4. Keep your document private. Read the privacy page before you upload an unpublished paper.

How to check a research paper in PaperCheck

  1. Open the home page and paste your text, or upload a Word or PDF file.
  2. Press Check for AI and sign in with Google.
  3. Read the score and the highlighted sentences. The plagiarism part compares your text with papers you cited and related papers on arXiv.

What the plagiarism part covers

The copy check looks at arXiv: the papers in your reference list plus related papers found by searching with your paragraphs' key terms. It is not a whole-web check like Turnitin, so a clean result does not prove nothing matches elsewhere.

If sentences are flagged as AI

You can rewrite them yourself, or use the reducer: Rs 30 per paper, it rewrites only the flagged sentences and keeps numbers and citations. The first 1,000 words can be humanized free once per account to see how it reads. See how to fix lines flagged as AI-written.

Common questions

Is this research checker free?

Yes. You get 5 free checks a week, up to 20,000 words each, with a Google sign-in.

Does it check plagiarism too?

Yes, against arXiv: cited papers plus related papers found by search. It is not a whole-web check.

Will Turnitin show the same score?

Not necessarily. PaperCheck gives its own estimate, and Turnitin and other checkers can differ.

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PaperCheck is not affiliated with Turnitin, GPTZero, papercheck.in or papercheck.ai. Scores from any detector are estimates, not proof.