amige. vs
Scribbr.

Scribbr is a free, academic-focused AI text checker, powered by QuillBot and widely used by students. It pairs the AI detector with a plagiarism checker and the proofreading services Scribbr built its name on since 2012. The detector runs in the browser with no account, up to about 1,200 words per check.

amige. answers a wider question. Scribbr reads text; amige. reads an image you saw on social media, a clip you suspect is a deepfake, or a paragraph, and names the model most likely behind it. these are different jobs.

where Scribbr is stronger

free text checks for essays. unlimited free checks at 1,200 words each, no signup, is a low-friction way to gut-check a piece of writing. for a student with an essay, Scribbr is right there.

plagiarism plus academic workflow. Scribbr bundles plagiarism checking and proofreading aimed at academic writing. amige. ships none of that.

a longer track record on student text. Scribbr and its QuillBot engine have years of history on academic writing. amige. is the newer product, and built for breadth across modalities rather than depth on essays.

where amige. is stronger

image and video. Scribbr is text only. amige.’s panel is built for image authenticity (Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, DALL·E, Flux, GPT-4o image), video detection, and deepfake scoring. that gap is the main reason to reach for amige.

model attribution. a flagged image on amige. comes back with a best guess at the generator, like “looks like Midjourney v6”, carrying the question mark. Scribbr reports an AI-likelihood on text and stops there.

a panel, with the disagreement shown. amige. runs several independent detectors per scan and shows where they split, plus an ‘uncertain’ band for the wide middle. Scribbr returns a single text score.

the accuracy story

Scribbr publishes around 78% on its free detector and 84% on premium. an independent 2026 benchmark put the free tier nearer 73%, with a false-positive rate around 9%. that pattern holds across the category: text detection is conditional, weaker on edited or paraphrased writing, and prone to false positives against non-native-English authors. read any single percentage as a starting point. amige. handles that by running several detectors at once and showing the spread, rather than headlining one number.

why it's free: the QuillBot funnel

Scribbr's detector is a wrap-around for QuillBot's engine, both owned by Learneo, and the free check is a top-of-funnel for QuillBot's paid writing tools. the free tier is useful, and it helps to know what it's pointing you toward.

who each is for

pick Scribbr if you’re a student checking an essay, you want a free text read, and you want plagiarism checking in the same place. it’s a solid academic-writing tool.

pick amige. if you’ve got an image or a clip and want to know whether it’s real, with a guess at which model made it and a panel of detectors behind the call. start on the AI image detector or the AI video detector.