Galleys vs AutoCrit

Compare your prose to bestsellers, or get told what to fix first?

AutoCrit benchmarks your manuscript against published fiction in your genre: pacing, dialogue ratio, word frequency, strong-verb usage, and more, shown as charts against a target. Galleys doesn't score your prose against a benchmark. It reads the manuscript the way a developmental editor does and returns a structured report — every issue categorized, quoted, tiered by severity, and sequenced into a revision plan.

No account needed.

What AutoCrit does well

AutoCrit's benchmarking is genuinely useful for calibrating prose to genre norms: if your thriller has half the dialogue of comparable titles, it will show you. Its Story Analyzer adds chapter summaries and pacing views, and the interface is quick to scan.

Where Galleys differs

Galleys tells you what is wrong and why, in order. Instead of a chart showing your pacing is slow, you get: Chapter 12, three consecutive scenes end on the same beat, quoted, Tier 2, with a suggested fix — and it lands in Wave 2 of your revision plan after the story-breaking issues. It also tracks continuity and canon across chapters and series, which benchmarking can't do.

01 — Feature by feature

Galleys vs AutoCrit, side by side

Capability	AutoCrit	Galleys
Benchmark against published fiction	✓	—
Pacing & dialogue charts	✓	✓ Plus severity heatmap
Word-frequency & strong-verb reports	✓	Prose tier notes
Severity-tiered issues with quoted passages	—	✓ Tier 1 / 2 / 3
Concrete fix per issue	—	✓
Continuity & canon checking	—	✓ Cross-chapter, cross-series
Character knowledge & voice tracking	—	✓
Prioritized revision plan	—	✓ 5-wave
Genre adaptation & convention tolerance	Genre benchmarks	✓
Bring your own API key	—	✓ Author plan and up
One-time purchase (no subscription)	—	✓ $19 / $39 per report

AutoCrit details as of August 2026, from its public site. Tell us if something is out of date: [email protected].

02 — Price per manuscript

What one developmental read costs

AutoCrit

$30

per month

Pro tier; annual discount available

Galleys

$39

one-time, full manuscript

or subscribe from $14/mo

30-day money-back guarantee on every Galleys report. If it doesn't surface issues a developmental editor would catch, we refund you.

For context: a human developmental edit costs $2,000–$4,000 and takes weeks. Full Galleys pricing →

03 — Which one is for you

Choose AutoCrit if

You want to see how your prose statistics compare to published books in your genre.
You revise continuously and like a dashboard you check as you go.

Choose Galleys if

You want a ranked list of what to fix, with the passage quoted, not a set of scores to interpret.
Your problems are structural: plot holes, flat arcs, continuity, promises that never pay off.
You want one report for one price rather than a monthly subscription.

Galleys vs AutoCrit: common questions

Is a benchmark score the same as an editorial issue?

No. A benchmark tells you your numbers differ from the norm; it doesn't say whether that's a problem in your book. Galleys judges each finding against your manuscript's own intent and genre, and lists deliberate-looking rule breaks in a False Positives Log rather than flagging them.

Does Galleys show charts too?

Yes — a severity heatmap by chapter and category, issue distribution, pacing, character arcs, and revision progress. The difference is the charts summarize tiered issues that each have a quoted passage and a fix behind them.

Which is cheaper for one novel?

A Galleys Full Manuscript Report is $39 one-time. AutoCrit Pro is about $30 per month, so a single month is cheaper if you finish inside it; over a multi-month revision Galleys costs less.

Read a full Galleys report before you decide

The sample report is open to read without an account. Then analyze a chapter of your own, free.

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