AI Detector Leaderboard

DetectArena's leaderboard ranks 6 AI text detectors using Elo ratings derived from blind pairwise voting. Users compare two tools on the same text without knowing which is which, then vote on which performed better. Elo ratings update after every vote, reflecting real-time community assessment of detection quality.

Rankings below are based on 1,495 blind votes across 6 AI text detection tools and 5 content categories. Elo ratings update after every vote.

Overall Rankings

Rank	Tool	Elo Rating	Accuracy	False Positive Rate	Pricing
#1	Pangram	1775	99.98%	0.01%	paid
#2	GPTZero	1568	99%	2%	freemium
#3	Winston AI	1551	99.98%	0.5%	freemium
#4	Sapling	1495	97%	5%	freemium
#5	ZeroGPT	1403	98%	8%	free
#6	Originality.ai	1362	99.97%	1.5%	paid

Rankings by Category

General

Rank	Tool	Category Elo
#1	Pangram	1620
#2	GPTZero	1580
#3	Originality.ai	1545
#4	Winston AI	1480
#5	Sapling	1465
#6	ZeroGPT	1420

Academic

Rank	Tool	Category Elo
#1	Pangram	1670
#2	GPTZero	1660
#3	Originality.ai	1585
#5	Winston AI	1500
#6	Sapling	1465
#7	ZeroGPT	1410

Creative & Social Media

Rank	Tool	Category Elo
#1	Pangram	1640
#2	GPTZero	1590
#3	Originality.ai	1575
#4	Winston AI	1520
#6	Sapling	1445
#7	ZeroGPT	1440

Technical

Rank	Tool	Category Elo
#1	Pangram	1660
#2	GPTZero	1600
#3	Originality.ai	1565
#5	Sapling	1495
#6	Winston AI	1470
#7	ZeroGPT	1400

Marketing

Rank	Tool	Category Elo
#1	Pangram	1645
#2	GPTZero	1595
#3	Originality.ai	1585
#4	Winston AI	1515
#5	Sapling	1470
#6	ZeroGPT	1440

Methodology

DetectArena ranks AI detectors using blind pairwise voting. Users compare two tools on the same text without knowing which is which, then vote on which performed better. Rankings use the Elo rating system across 5 content categories.

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