What the free check includes
The public checker lets you paste a passage and request a document-level estimate without creating an account. It is useful as one input to a writing review. It does not provide an institutional Turnitin report, a verified generator identity or a completed accuracy benchmark. The separate plagiarism checker serves a different task: investigating matching source material.
Input allowance and analysis scope
The form accepts up to 50,000 characters, while the backend forwards only the first 15,000 characters to the external analysis service. These are different limits. If a long document contains later sections, do not describe the displayed result as an assessment of those sections. Choose the passage you want to check and keep the exact version with the report.
For example, if you paste a long article with its references at the end, the references may sit outside the forwarded portion. A detector result about the beginning cannot establish whether those later sources are valid. Open the references separately and check the specific claims they are supposed to support. For the processing details, see how the checker works.
What to do before submitting a draft
Confirm that you have permission to share the material. The passage is transmitted to an external service for analysis, so a free public form should not be treated as a confidential institutional submission channel. Read the privacy information and avoid uploading restricted student work, confidential client material or unpublished information without the appropriate permission.
Record the reason for the check. A concern about an unsupported citation needs source verification. A concern about authorship needs a discussion of drafting and substantive choices. A concern about an institution's report needs the report name, account role and relevant assignment settings. Those questions cannot all be resolved by the same public estimate.
When a different workflow may be needed
If you need sentence highlights, team review, report exports or a supported classroom integration, compare those requirements explicitly. This site does not establish a public API service or a customer LMS deployment. A product's paid or free status does not by itself establish whether it meets an organisation's data-handling and review requirements.
Use the free-detector comparison to review access differences, the detector roundup to compare reporting workflows, and the writing-review guide for the next steps after an unexpected result. Current access is free; this page does not invent future subscription plans or promise unlimited service.