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Pen

Last updated 2026-09-08 · benchmark measured 2026-09-08 — deterministic & reproducible

Pen is a writing tool that lets you interact with AI at the sentence level.

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Legit.Show scored Pen 49/100 on 2026-09-08, measured across 5 of 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/pen-xyz/2026-09-08

Is Pen production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Pen 49 out of 100 — the simple average of its 5 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Pen (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Privacy. 5 of the seven frames returned a score; Performance and Accessibility were not measurable on this service and are recorded as null — not as zero. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — not measurable on this service (null — not scored as 0)
• Accessibility — not measurable on this service (null — not scored as 0)
• Security — 25/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
• Privacy — 25/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
• Reliability — 92/100
• Standards — 45/100
• Discoverability — 60/100

What we measured

• No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 416 ms to first byte.
• Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
• 0 of 0 sampled routes reachable.
• No privacy policy found.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
• Discoverable: OpenGraph image.

Who it's for

Writers · Content creators · Teams collaborating on documents · AI-assisted writers

Sources and updates

Description

Taken from pen.xyz's own website on 2026-09-08.

Operator

Pen, as named in pen.xyz's terms, privacy page or footer.

Benchmark

Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-09-08.

Put together from public information, without Pen's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.

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