RightMyWork sells word credits, not seats and not subscriptions. You buy a pack once, the words land in your account, and you spend them when you have something to edit. This article walks through the pricing model, what counts as a billed word, the no-expiry policy, and how to pick the right pack for your project.
How RightMyWork pricing works
Every account carries a single number: words remaining. When you upload a document, the editor counts the words inside, shows you the total, and asks you to confirm. On confirmation, that number is deducted from your balance and the edit runs. There is no monthly fee, no per-document fee, and no surprise charges. The price you see in the cart is the price you pay, and the words you receive are added to your balance for whenever you need them.
Free accounts start with 10,000 words on sign-up. That is enough to run a short essay or a long chapter section through the editor with room to spare. Once those words are spent, you either buy a pack or wait. Free words are intended as a real trial of the product rather than a permanent allowance.
The credit packs
Three paid packs cover the full range of academic and professional document sizes. The names describe size, not document type—every pack edits any academic document, from a lab report to a monograph. Each pack lists the words included, the price, the per-1,000-word rate, and the document slots it adds. Bigger packs carry a better rate. Prices below are the current list prices in US dollars.
Paper
50,000 words at $9 ($0.18 per 1,000 words), with 10 document slots. Sized for shorter works: essays, journal articles, conference papers, proposals, reports, single chapters. Includes everything in Free with the watermark removed, full-document editing, and a 7-day download window.
Manuscript
150,000 words at $19 ($0.13 per 1,000 words), with 25 document slots. Sized for long works: a master’s thesis, a doctoral dissertation, a full-length study, with room to edit again after you revise. Carries a 14-day download window.
Volume
500,000 words at $49 ($0.098 per 1,000 words, the best rate on the list), with 60 document slots. Sized for book-scale work: monographs, compilations, multi-study projects, or a season of papers. Individual documents are capped at 150,000 words each, so book-scale work is edited chapter by chapter or part by part; the pack’s words spread across as many documents as you need. Carries a 14-day download window.
Custom
For editorial services, publishers, and institutions handling 1,000,000 words or more per year. Custom is invoice-billed against a purchase order, runs on an annual contract with volume discount, has no document-slot cap, and includes a dedicated support channel. The Custom tier is provisioned manually rather than through the self-serve checkout, so the next step is to contact the team.
Document slots
Alongside words, every plan carries document slots. A slot is used each time you run a document through the editor; re-editing the same file after a revision uses another slot, and cross-reference reports never use one. Free accounts have 3 slots; each paid pack adds its own (10, 25, or 60), and they stack if you buy again. The slots are generous for individual writers, a thesis plus revisions barely dents them, and exist so that high-volume commercial use goes through the Custom plan, where it belongs. Failed or cancelled edits return both the words and the slot.
What counts as a billed word
The word counter looks at every surface a human copyeditor would touch. That includes body paragraphs, footnotes and endnotes, headers and footers, captions, callouts, and the contents of text boxes. The reason matters: a thesis with 80,000 words of body text and 20,000 words of footnotes is a 100,000-word editing job, not an 80,000-word job, because the editor will work on both layers and produce tracked changes across both.
The number the editor shows you on the upload screen is the exact number that will be billed. There are no hidden multipliers, no surcharges for footnote-heavy documents, and no per-citation fees. Comments already inside the document and tracked changes from previous edits are not counted.
The never-expire policy
Every paid pack carries words that never expire. Once they are on your balance they stay there until you use them. There is no monthly burn-down, no annual reset, and no inactivity penalty. This is deliberate. Academic writing is a stop-start activity, and the credits you buy in January should still be there in November when you finally come back to revise the conclusion.
The 10,000 free words that come with a new account follow a 24-hour download window: the edited file is ready to download for 24 hours after the edit completes. The free credits themselves do not expire on the same schedule as a paid pack would, but the download is a one-time window. Paid packs have a 7-day download window per edit on Paper, and 14 days on Manuscript and Volume.
What happens when your document is bigger than your balance
The editor never runs a partial edit. If you upload a 60,000-word document and your balance is 40,000 words, you see the exact shortfall before anything is processed: the document size, your remaining balance, and how many more words you need. Paid users can top up the difference and run the whole document in one pass; free users can upgrade to a plan that covers it. Either way the edit only ever runs on the complete document.
You cannot be billed for more than you bought, and you are never charged for a partial result.
Refunds and edits that go wrong
You can request a refund of the unused portion of a purchased pack within 30 days of purchase. To request one, email support@rightmywork.com from your account email with the pack you bought and the approximate purchase date. Requests are reviewed individually and are subject to standard fraud and abuse checks; credits you have already used are non-refundable, and their value is deducted from the refund at our standard per-word rate. If an edit fails for a reason on our side, the word credits that would have been deducted are returned to your balance automatically and you can re-run the document, at no charge. If you believe credits were deducted in error, contact the same address with your account email and the document name.
Picking the right pack
Pick by word count, not by what the document is called. For a single shorter work, the Free tier is a meaningful trial and Paper covers everything beyond that. For a thesis, dissertation, or any long document—especially one you plan to revise and re-edit—Manuscript is sized to cover the full document plus a second round. Volume takes over when the work is book-scale or when you have many documents ahead of you and want the best per-word rate.
Custom takes over for editors, agencies, and institutions running multiple long manuscripts or high-volume client work.
One more thing about value
Credits never expire. That fact matters more than the per-word rate, because it means you can buy at the tier that fits your largest planned project rather than the tier that fits your current week. The words you do not spend wait for the next draft, the next chapter, or the next paper. There is no penalty for buying ahead.