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Basic access
  • ✓ 1 essay grade every day
  • ✓ Estimated mark and grade
  • ✓ Basic AO breakdown
  • × Ad-supported experience
  • × Detailed AO1, AO2 and AO3 feedback
  • × Paragraph-by-paragraph analysis
  • × Advanced examiner-style reasoning
  • × AI examiner follow-up questions
  • × Full essay history and progress tracking
  • × Highest-powered AI marking
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More detailed feedback, stronger AI and more tools to help you improve.

£9.99
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Only ~33p/day
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  • ✓ More powerful AI marking
  • ✓ Ad-free experience
  • ✓ Detailed AO1, AO2 and AO3 feedback
  • ✓ Deeper paragraph-by-paragraph analysis
  • ✓ Specific next-step improvements
  • ✓ Essay history and progress tracking
  • ✓ Higher grading allowance
Deepest analysis

Blade Pro

Our strongest grading experience for students who want the most detailed feedback.

£14.99
/ month
Only ~49p/day
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  • ✓ Blade's most advanced AI marking
  • ✓ Ad-free experience
  • ✓ Deep examiner-style reasoning
  • ✓ Advanced quotation and language analysis
  • ✓ AI examiner follow-up questions
  • ✓ Advanced progress and weakness tracking
  • ✓ Highest grading allowance
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Why upgrade?

Free marks it.
Paid helps you improve it.

The Free plan gives you a useful daily grade. Plus and Pro are built for students who want to understand exactly what is costing them marks, what to change, and how to push their next essay higher.

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Free gives you the headline.

You get a mark, grade and basic AO breakdown — enough to check where your essay stands, but not the deeper diagnosis.

+

Plus shows you what is holding you back.

See detailed AO feedback, paragraph-level analysis and specific next steps so you know what to fix before your next essay.

✦

Pro pushes the analysis further.

Get Blade's deepest examiner-style reasoning, advanced quotation analysis, AI follow-up questions and the strongest grading experience.

What you actually get
Free Basic daily marking
Best value Blade Plus Built for improvement
Blade Pro Deepest analysis
Marking
Essay grading allowance How often you can submit work for Blade to mark.
1 / day Basic allowance
AI marking power The depth and sophistication of the model used to assess your writing.
Core Fast basic marking
Estimated mark + grade See an estimated mark and grade for your essay.
✓ Included Estimated mark + grade
Understanding your marks
Detailed AO1, AO2 and AO3 diagnosis Understand exactly which assessment objectives are gaining or losing marks.
× Basic breakdown only
Paragraph-by-paragraph analysis See which paragraphs are working, which are weaker and why.
× Not included
Examiner-style reasoning See the reasoning behind Blade's judgement instead of only receiving a score.
× Headline feedback only
Advanced quotation + language analysis Push beyond surface-level comments into stronger AO2 interpretation.
× Not included
× Standard analysis
Improving your next essay
Specific next-step improvements Get clear, actionable changes based on the weaknesses in your own essay.
× General tips only
AI examiner follow-up questions Ask Blade why you lost marks or how to improve a specific part of your essay.
× Not included
Limited Selected follow-ups
Essay history + progress tracking See recurring weaknesses and whether your writing is actually improving over time.
× Not included
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Pricing FAQ

Questions?

Yes. The Free plan is designed to stay genuinely useful. You can grade one essay each day without paying.

Free gives you the core Blade marking experience. Paid plans use more powerful AI and unlock deeper AO feedback, more detailed analysis, greater usage and additional improvement tools.

Plus is intended to be the best-value option for students who use Blade regularly. Pro is aimed at students who want Blade's deepest analysis and most advanced features.

Yes. Both Blade Plus and Blade Pro include a 7-day free trial on Monthly and Annual billing. You can cancel any time during the trial. If you do not cancel, your chosen plan starts at the advertised monthly or annual price when the trial ends.

Monthly plans are designed to be cancellable at any time. Your access would continue until the end of the billing period.

ChatGPT is general-purpose. Blade AI is built specifically for GCSE English Literature, using specialised marking algorithms tailored to the AQA mark scheme and assessment objectives. It evaluates your argument, analysis, evidence and context to give focused marking and clear next steps — without complex prompts.

Blade is built to help you improve, not just give you a mark. Get AO breakdowns, paragraph-level analysis and clear next steps from a system specialised for GCSE English Literature — with powerful features at a competitive, student-friendly price.

Blade is starting with GCSE English Literature, with plans to expand into more essay-based subjects over time.