How Sudowrite drafts a chapter
Everything starts in the Story Bible: a braindump, then genre, style, synopsis, characters, worldbuilding and outline, each one written by hand or generated. The Draft tool splits an outline chapter into scenes, then writes the chapter, typically 3,000 to 5,000 words or more.
Once chapters are linked, Sudowrite rereads up to 20,000 words from as many as 25 earlier documents before it writes the next one. Books placed in a Series folder share their character and world cards, and a character who sits out a volume can be hidden from the AI. For a 90,000-word novel already in progress, Import Novel builds the Story Bible from the manuscript, and a Scrivener backup comes in with its folders intact.
What Sudowrite costs per month
| Plan | Billed monthly | Billed yearly | Credits a month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hobby and Student | $19 | $10 | 225,000 |
| Professional | $29 | $22 | 1,000,000 |
| Max | $59 | $44 | 2,000,000 |
The prices on the pricing page are the yearly ones. Unused credits expire at each monthly refresh, except on Max, where they roll over for up to 12 months. Extra credit packs never expire but need an active plan. Margin notes in the style of a developmental or line editor come with Professional and Max only.
How many words do Sudowrite credits buy?
Sudowrite puts the 1 million credits of Professional at anywhere from 50,000 to 500,000 AI-generated words a month. The model makes the difference: the same 200-word continuation cost about 70 credits with GPT-5 Nano and over 8,000 with Claude 4.1 Opus. Muse, the in-house fiction model, costs more than the Basic mode built on GPT-4o Mini, and some thirty experimental models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek and others are on the menu. Chat and Quick Edit use no credits in their default mode, so an author who writes the prose and only asks for edits can live on the cheapest plan.
Refunds, ownership and the fine print
The free trial needs no card. Ask within seven days of subscribing and Sudowrite refunds the plan. After that, cancelling refunds nothing, and only an upgrade credits the unused time. Monthly plans can be paused for up to three months.
Sudowrite claims no rights over what you write or what it generates, and says it does not train its own models or OpenAI's on your writing. After cancelling, projects stay readable and exportable as .docx or .zip, though the Story Bible does not travel with them. The terms name no company, only an operator reached at [email protected]. The site credits two writers, Amit Gupta and James Yu, as founders.
Sudowrite strengths and limitations
Strengths
- Full chapters drafted from the outline.
- Series memory with shared characters and world.
- A 7-day refund and a trial with no card.
- Your writing kept out of model training.
Limitations
- Yearly prices up front, monthly plans cost up to 90% more.
- Credits expire every month below Max.
- Story Bible left out of document exports.
- No company named in the terms.
Sudowrite vs DreamGen
DreamGen starts at $7.83 a month and keeps 5,000 tokens of context on that tier, 60,000 at the top, and its operator, Rozum AG, is a named Swiss company. Sudowrite costs more but adds outline-to-chapter drafting, series folders and 20,000 words of chapter rereading.
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