Grammarly review: is it worth the price

Grammarly is worth the price if client-facing language is part of your income and your blind spots are expensive. It is not worth the price if you mostly write internal notes or if your style is the product and generic polish would flatten your voice.

Premium catches clusters of small mistakes that erode trust in proposals and email. It also nags about stylistic choices that are not mistakes, just opinions. You still have to say no to suggestions like an editor with spine.

Where it pays rent

Fast client replies under pressure, contracts with tight language, and anything that ships under your name to strangers. The keyboard integrations matter because friction kills habits.

Where it annoys

Creative voice work can turn homogenized if you accept every green check. Fiction, humor, and sharp opinion pieces need a lighter touch on settings.

Compare before you subscribe

Read Grammarly vs Hemingway and the Grammarly tool page. Price against one avoided embarrassment per quarter and the math usually clears.

Style guides

If clients ship style guides, teach Grammarly their vocabulary exceptions manually. Otherwise you will fight proper nouns weekly.

Turn off categories of suggestions that annoy you in specific projects. Productivity is partly configuration stubbornness.

Closing take: Grammarly Premium is a reputation line item

Premium pays off when client-facing email and proposals carry real money and small tone slips would sting. It frustrates when you accept every suggestion and sound like a brochure. Treat it like an editor with opinions: keep the catches, reject the flattening.

What I would compare before renewing

I would re-read Grammarly vs Hemingway and the Grammarly tool page so the renewal decision references your actual workload, not a popup guilt timer.