Claude
An AI assistant for drafting, editing and analyzing text and code through chat or an API.
Edition 2026
The best AI writing tools
Every one of these can produce a thousand words. The difference is whether the thousand words survive an editor, and whether the tool tells you where a fact came from.
We give weight to the unglamorous parts: keeping your voice across a long document, citing sources, and exporting cleanly into whatever you actually publish in.
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How we judged this
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What we look at
- Keeps a consistent voice across a document, not just a paragraph
- Cites sources for factual claims and links to them
- Exports without cleanup to the formats you publish in
- Clear position on whether your drafts train the model
- Priced per seat or per word in a way you can forecast
Helps if you have it: A published terms page covering training on customer content, plus a sample document with working citations.
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