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 3,000 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
Five paid packs cover the full range of academic and professional document sizes. Each pack lists the words included, the price, and which kind of project it tends to fit. Prices below are the current list prices in US dollars.
Draft
10,000 words at $15. Sized for an undergraduate essay, a single article, or a long chapter draft. Includes everything in Free plus a clean output with no watermark, a 7-day file storage window, and priority email support.
Chapter
35,000 words at $39. Sized for a single thesis chapter, a long research paper, or a paper plus its reference appendix. Includes cross-reference checking and a bibliography integrity audit on top of the Draft tier.
Manuscript
100,000 words at $99. Sized for a full master’s thesis, a short PhD dissertation, or a book draft. Manuscript is the recommended pack for thesis writers because the per-word cost is meaningfully lower and the higher tier unlocks priority processing.
Volume
250,000 words at $169. Sized for a long dissertation, a multi-chapter book project, or a writer working on several manuscripts at once. Carries the lowest per-word cost on the public tier list.
Custom
For editorial services, publishers, and institutions handling 500,000 words or more per year. Custom is invoice-billed against a purchase order, runs on an annual contract with volume discount, 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.
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 3,000 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.
What happens when your document is bigger than your balance
If you upload a 60,000-word document and your balance is 40,000 words, the editor still runs. It stops at the nearest paragraph boundary once your remaining words are exhausted, returns the edited portion with tracked changes, and tells you exactly how many words it edited and how many it did not reach. You can top up credits and run the remainder in a second pass, or you can take the partial edit and move on.
Words edited never exceeds words remaining. You cannot be billed for more than you bought.
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
Three rough rules cover most cases. If you are running a single paper or essay, the Free tier is genuinely enough for a meaningful trial, and Draft is enough for everything beyond that. If you are working on a thesis chapter or two, Chapter is sized to handle them comfortably and leaves room for the inevitable revision pass. If you are heading into the full thesis or a book project, Manuscript is the recommended pack: its per-word cost is much lower than buying several Drafts back-to-back, and the priority processing matters as deadlines compress.
Volume is the right call for writers running multiple long manuscripts or for small editorial teams handling client work. Custom takes over when the volume reaches institutional scale.
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.