A Grammarly charge on your bank statement almost always comes from a paid subscription to Grammarly Pro, the company’s writing-assistance software. The usual amounts are $30 monthly, $60 quarterly, or $144 annually, with a little sales tax on top depending on your billing address. If you don’t remember signing up, the most likely explanation is a 7-day free trial that quietly converted into a paid plan.
What the Descriptor Looks Like
When Grammarly bills you directly, the line item usually contains the word “GRAMMARLY” along with a phone number (888-318-6146) and a San Francisco, CA reference. You may also see “GRAMMARLY CO” with a short alphanumeric code, “GRAMMARLY.COM,” or “PAYPAL GRAMMARLY” if PayPal is your payment method.
Phone subscriptions look different. Apple processes App Store subscriptions under “apple.com/bill” or “itunes.com/bill,” so the word Grammarly never appears.1Apple Support. If You See an Apple Services Charge You Don’t Recognize on Your Statement Google Play works the same way, billing under Google’s name rather than Grammarly’s. If an unfamiliar Apple or Google charge lines up with a Grammarly plan amount, check your app store purchase history before assuming fraud.
Does the Amount Match a Grammarly Plan
Grammarly retired the “Premium” name and now calls its individual paid tier Grammarly Pro. The feature set is the same across billing cycles; only the price changes:2Grammarly Support. How Much Does Grammarly Pro Cost
- Monthly: $30 per month
- Quarterly: $60 every three months (about $20 per month)
- Annual: $144 billed once a year (about $12 per month)
Your actual charge may run a few dollars higher because Grammarly adds sales tax based on your billing address, sometimes as a separate line even when checkout showed a single price.3Grammarly Support. Is Tax Included in the Subscription Cost
Why It Showed Up Now
Three explanations cover almost every unexpected Grammarly charge.
A converted free trial is the most common. Grammarly’s 7-day trial of the Pro plan asks for a payment method upfront and begins billing automatically at the end.4Grammarly. Grammarly Prices and Plans A reminder email goes out two days before the trial ends, but if it lands in spam, the first charge feels like it came out of nowhere.
Duplicate accounts are next. If you started a trial under one email and later opened a second account with a different email, both can bill the same card. You can figure out which account owns a charge by signing in with each email and checking the subscription page.5Grammarly Support. Which Account Am I Being Billed For
Then there’s the annual renewal. Grammarly charges on the anniversary of your original sign-up date, so a $144 hit twelve months after you bought an annual plan is easy to forget about.6Grammarly Support. How Am I Charged for My Subscription
How to Cancel
Where you cancel depends on where you signed up. This is the single most common trap: people cancel in the wrong place and keep getting billed.
If You Subscribed at Grammarly.com
Sign in, open the Account tab in the left sidebar, go to Subscription, and click Cancel Subscription at the bottom.7Grammarly Support. How Do I Cancel My Subscription You keep Pro access through the end of the period you already paid for, so canceling a March annual plan in July still gives you Pro until the following March.8Grammarly Support. Cancel Automatic Renewal of My Subscription
If You Subscribed Through the App Store or Google Play
Cancel through Apple’s or Google’s subscription settings, not Grammarly’s website. Grammarly’s own support directs app store subscribers back to Apple to cancel.7Grammarly Support. How Do I Cancel My Subscription Almost every “I canceled but I’m still being charged” complaint traces to this: the billing relationship is with Apple or Google, and turning off features on Grammarly’s site doesn’t touch it.
Canceling Is Not Deleting
Canceling stops the billing. Deleting your account permanently wipes your documents and personal dictionary. You don’t need to delete anything to stop charges, and deleting won’t cancel a subscription that runs through an app store.7Grammarly Support. How Do I Cancel My Subscription Cancel first; decide about the account after.
Can You Get a Refund
Grammarly’s Terms of Service state that payments are non-refundable and issued “only if required by law.”9Grammarly. Terms of Service The support page says the same: you can cancel any time, but refunds follow the Terms.10Grammarly Support. Can I Get a Refund It’s still worth asking through the support request form, especially for a trial conversion you genuinely didn’t notice, but there’s no guaranteed refund window.
Disputing the Charge With Your Bank
If the charge is genuinely unauthorized, or if Grammarly won’t help after you canceled, your bank or card issuer is the next step. The rules differ by payment method.
Credit Cards
Under the Fair Credit Billing Act, your liability for unauthorized credit card charges is capped at $50, and you have 60 days from the statement date to dispute a billing error in writing with the card issuer. The issuer has to acknowledge the dispute within 30 days and resolve it within two billing cycles, and you don’t have to pay the disputed amount while it’s being investigated.
Debit Cards and Bank Account Transactions
The Electronic Fund Transfer Act works on a tighter clock. Report an unauthorized charge within two business days of learning about it and your liability is capped at $50. Wait longer but report within 60 days of the statement date, and your exposure rises to $500. Miss the 60-day window and you can be on the hook for the full amount of any later unauthorized transfers.11Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. 12 CFR 1005.6 – Liability of Consumer for Unauthorized Transfers Debit disputes are more time-sensitive than credit disputes for that reason.
What a Chargeback Costs You
Chargebacks are a legitimate protection, but Grammarly, like most subscription services, treats one as a breach of the subscriber relationship. You can lose access to your account and documents, and you may not be able to open a new account with the same payment method. Try Grammarly’s support team first, and keep the chargeback for cases where the company won’t engage or the charge is clearly fraudulent.
The Arbitration Clause
If a dispute goes further than a refund request, Grammarly’s Terms of Service push most disagreements into binding arbitration and include a class action waiver. There’s a 30-day opt-out from the arbitration agreement after you accept the terms, so anyone who just signed up and wants to keep the option to sue in court needs to act inside that window. Users in the European Economic Area are exempt from these provisions entirely.9Grammarly. Terms of Service