GPTZero vs Originality AI: Which Detector Actually Catches AI Writing?

We ran the same 30 drafts through both. Here's where each one flags, where it misses, and what that means for you.

How they work differently

GPTZero leans on perplexity and burstiness — it expects human text to be uneven. Originality AI trains a classifier on labeled samples and also checks for AI-paraphrase patterns. That difference shows up in practice: GPTZero often flags clean human writing as AI; Originality is harder to fool but slower and pricier.

Where each one misses

Run a draft through a good humanizer and both scores drop — but Originality recovers faster on heavily edited text because it watches style shifts, not just per-sentence randomness. GPTZero is easier to calm with short sentences and varied length.

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