Grammarly Refund Policy and Steps to Request a Refund, Cancel or Unsubscribe

Grammarly does not give refunds as a matter of policy. Its support site says refunds are issued only if required by law, and section 8.10 of the Terms of Service says all payments are non-refundable and non-cancelable, including for partially used subscription periods. The routes that do sometimes work are an App Store or Google Play refund request, a statutory right where you live, or a card dispute if you were charged after canceling.

Every line quoted below was read first-party on grammarly.com on September 22, 2026: the support article on refunds, the cancellation instructions, and the Terms of Service. One thing to know before you start, because it explains some confusing paperwork: Grammarly, Inc. renamed itself Superhuman Platform Inc. on October 29, 2025, so the terms you agreed to are now written in Superhuman's name even though the product is still Grammarly.

Does Grammarly give refunds?

As a rule, no. Grammarly's own support article on the question is one sentence long and does not leave much room:

You can cancel your subscription at any time. However, as outlined in our Terms of Service, refunds are issued only if required by law.

That is the whole policy. There is no money-back guarantee, no trial-period refund window, and no pro-rata credit for the months you paid for and did not use. If you bought an annual plan in month one and want out in month three, the written position is that the money is gone and your access continues to the end of the term.

This matters most on annual billing, which is how Grammarly prices its cheapest per-month rate. Grammarly's plans page serves local currency and quoted us euros from our location, so we could not read the US ladder first-party. US listings put Grammarly Pro at $30 a month billed monthly, $20 a month billed quarterly, and $12 a month billed annually, which is a single $144 charge up front. The annual plan is the one people ask about refunds for, because it is the one that takes three figures in one go.

What is Grammarly's refund policy?

The support page points at the Terms of Service, and the terms are more explicit. Section 8.10, headed No Refunds, reads:

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, all payments made by you under these Terms are non-refundable and payment obligations are non-cancelable, and we do not provide refunds or credits for any partially used Subscription periods or unused consumption or capacity.

Three phrases in there do the work. Non-refundable covers the money you paid. Non-cancelable payment obligations covers instalments you have not paid yet. And partially used Subscription periods closes the most common request people make, which is a refund for the remaining months of an annual term.

Notice the opening clause, though: to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law. That is not throat-clearing, it is the actual limit of the policy, and it is the same limit the support page names when it says refunds are issued only if required by law. Both documents are telling you that the company's default is no, and that consumer law is the thing that can override it. The terms say so again in the cancellation section:

We acknowledge that some countries have mandatory local laws regarding your cancellation rights, and this section does not override those laws.

How do I request a Grammarly refund?

There is no refund form or self-serve refund button, so it comes down to which of four routes fits your situation. Work down this list in order, because they get progressively harder.

If none of those four describe you, the honest answer is that you are asking for a goodwill exception to a written no-refund policy. Support staff at most subscription companies have some discretion, and a short, specific, unangry message is what gets it. Give the email on the account, the charge date and amount, one sentence on why you are asking, and what you want. Do not threaten a chargeback in the first message. Keep it to a paragraph.

Can I get a Grammarly refund from the App Store or Google Play?

This is the one route with a real published process behind it, and Grammarly points you to it directly:

If you purchased your subscription from the App Store, contact Apple to request a refund.

Apple and Google both run their own refund systems for purchases made inside their stores, and those systems are considerably more generous than Grammarly's policy, particularly for a charge in the last few days. So the first question to answer is not what Grammarly's policy says, it is where you actually bought the subscription. Check your email for the receipt: if it came from Apple or Google rather than from Grammarly, your refund request goes to them and Grammarly's no-refund clause is not the document that governs it.

The same split applies to canceling. A subscription bought in the App Store cannot be canceled from Grammarly's website, which is a common and expensive mistake.

How do I unsubscribe from Grammarly and cancel my subscription?

Unsubscribing from Grammarly Pro (the plan Grammarly used to call Premium) and canceling the subscription are the same action: you turn off automatic renewal on the Subscription page. There is no separate unsubscribe button, and nothing is refunded by doing it.

The terms give one route and hand the details to the support site:

You may cancel your Subscription at any time (instructions on how to do so can be found by navigating to the relevant how do I cancel my subscription page on our Customer Care site).

Where you cancel depends on where you bought it.

Two things trip people up here. The first is that the cancel button sits at the very bottom of the subscription page, below the plan details, which is why a lot of people conclude it is not there. The second is bigger: uninstalling the Grammarly app, removing the browser extension, or deleting your account from your devices does not cancel anything. The subscription lives with whoever takes your money, and it keeps renewing until you tell them to stop.

Canceling stops the automatic renewal. It does not end your access early, and it does not refund anything. You keep the paid features until the term you already paid for runs out, which is the sensible way round: there is no advantage to canceling on the last day rather than today.

Can I get a refund if I cancel Grammarly?

No, and this is the single most common misunderstanding about Grammarly's billing. Canceling and refunding are separate things. Canceling is free, instant and available to everyone at any time, and it stops the next charge. A refund reaches backwards for money already taken, and section 8.10 says that money is not coming back, specifically including the unused part of a term.

Which is why the deadline that actually protects your money is the renewal date, not the refund window. Grammarly's terms are blunt about what happens if you let it pass. Section 8 opens in capitals:

IF YOU SUBSCRIBE TO A PAID SUBSCRIPTION TO THE SERVICES, SUCH PAID SUBSCRIPTION WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY RENEWED FOR ADDITIONAL PERIODS OF THE SAME DURATION AS YOUR INITIAL SUBSCRIPTION PERIOD AT SUPERHUMAN'S THEN-CURRENT FEES FOR SUCH SUBSCRIPTION UNLESS YOU CANCEL OR DECLINE TO RENEW YOUR SUBSCRIPTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 8.8 BELOW.

Additional periods of the same duration is the part to read twice. An annual plan renews for another year, not another month, at whatever the price is then rather than what you originally agreed to. So if you are reading this because you are thinking about leaving eventually, cancel now. You keep everything you paid for until the term ends, and you remove the risk of a $144 charge you meant to avoid.

What if Grammarly charged me after I canceled?

Then you are not asking for a refund any more, you are reporting a billing error, and that is a much stronger position. Gather three things first: the cancellation confirmation (email or screenshot), the date you canceled, and the charge as it appears on your statement with the exact amount and date.

Send that to Grammarly support before you do anything else, because a billing error is the one case where the no-refund clause is not really the obstacle. Ask plainly for the charge to be reversed and give the cancellation date. Most of these get resolved at this step.

If support does not fix it, the charge can be disputed with your card issuer. On a US credit card, the Fair Credit Billing Act generally gives you 60 days from the statement showing the charge to raise a billing error, so do not sit on it. If the seat was billed to a company card and you need the exact date and amount to file the dispute, it is quicker to pull the line off the statement and match it against your records than to dig through a year of inbox receipts. One note worth saying because people worry about it: disputing a charge like this does not by itself affect your credit.

Is it worth keeping Grammarly?

Often, yes, and it would be silly to pretend otherwise on a page like this. If what you need is grammar, spelling and clarity suggestions while you write, Grammarly is good at that and $12 a month on annual billing is a fair price for it.

The reason people land on a page about canceling it is usually one of two things. Either they are not using it enough to justify a renewal, in which case cancel and move on, or they bought it for a job it does not really do. The second case is worth a moment, because it is specific: a lot of people subscribe to Grammarly hoping it will make an AI draft read like their own writing. It is not built for that. Its suggestions tighten grammar and clarity sentence by sentence, which leaves the uniform rhythm and the predictable phrasing of a generated draft largely intact. We went through what Grammarly's own AI detection feature does and does not tell you in whether Grammarly detects AI writing.

Rewriting a draft so it reads like a person wrote it is a different job from correcting it, and it wants a different tool. That is what we build: paste up to 1,500 words, get the prose rebuilt rather than patched, and read our AI-pattern score before and after with the reasons behind each number, so you can judge the rewrite instead of trusting a badge. We are honest about the limit, too, which is that no humanizer can show you a Turnitin, GPTZero or Originality.ai verdict, and any tool implying otherwise is overselling. If you are weighing the two side by side, we laid it out on Grammarly as an AI humanizer, and the whole paid field is priced per word in our best AI humanizer roundup.

The short version

• Refunds: policy is no. Support says only if required by law, and section 8.10 says all payments are non-refundable, including partially used periods.
• Best refund route: if you bought through the App Store or Google Play, ask Apple or Google, whose policies are more generous than Grammarly's.
• Canceling: free and instant, at Account then Subscription, with the button at the bottom of the page. Uninstalling the app does not cancel anything.
• The real deadline: the renewal date. An annual plan renews for another full year at the current price.
• Charged after canceling: that is a billing error, not a refund request. Support first with your confirmation, then a card dispute within 60 days.