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Turnitin AI Detector
Last updated 2026-06-30 · benchmark checked 2026-08-09 · unchanged since 2026-08-08 — deterministic & reproducible
A web tool that checks essays and academic drafts for AI-generated writing patterns.
Is Turnitin AI Detector production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Turnitin AI Detector 76 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Turnitin AI Detector (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Security. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 73/100
- Accessibility — 93/100
- Security — 25/100
- Privacy — 75/100
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 92/100
- Discoverability — 75/100
What we measured
- No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 602 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
- Has a reachable privacy policy.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
- Discoverable: structured data, sitemap, canonical URL.
Who it's for
Students · Educators · Academic researchers · Essay writers · Academic institutions
Pricing
Free with limited checks; Basic $3.59/mo (1 credit/month), Pro $14.79/mo (5 credits/month), Ultra $22.79/mo (12 credits/month)
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