Examined Oct 3, 2026 Nothing named for you Free plan $0 Grammarly's referral terms name nothing for the person who signs up, and are dated October 1, 2023.
The Referral Program Terms speak to the person who refers and do not say the new sign-up receives anything. What they do ask of you: never having used Premium, a qualifying registration with a payment method if one is required, and a verified email address. What every new customer gets for certain is the Free plan: $0 a month, with 100 AI prompts.
What pays what
| You, the new sign-up | Not stated in the public terms |
|---|---|
| Anyone who has used Grammarly Premium, free trial included | Not a valid referral |
| Any new customer, with or without a link: the Free plan | $0 a month, 100 AI prompts |
| Pro, if you decide to pay | $12 a member a month billed annually, or $30 monthly |
The referral is a new user or a current user who has never used Grammarly Premium and who is not an employee, contractor, agent, or representative of any of our affiliates, partners, vendors, or Grammarly Business customers;
That rule, a qualifying registration and a verified email are everything the terms ask of the new sign-up. They name no reward for you in return.
Do this, in this order
- Ask the friend what their account shows before you do anything. Users generate their link or code by following the instructions on Grammarly's site or app, and any reward is described only in the specific program they are taking part in. Ask them whether it offers you anything, and if so its conditions and any expiry date. If they cannot find one, you have lost nothing: the Free plan is open to anyone.
- Check you have never used Grammarly Premium, trial included. Also excluded are employees, contractors, agents and representatives of Grammarly's affiliates, partners, vendors and Grammarly Business customers. Referring yourself, or opening more than one account, is barred.
- Sign up through the link or code, and verify your email. The terms require a qualifying registration process, “including providing a payment method if required”, and a verified email address. If a card is asked for, read what it will be charged and when before you enter it.
- Do not buy Pro for the sake of a referral. Pro is $30 when billed monthly, or $12 a member a month billed annually, which is 12 times $12, or $144, charged in advance. The Terms of Service say all payments are non-refundable. The help center says: “You can cancel your subscription at any time.” Refunds, it adds, are issued only if required by law.
- If you stop paying, cancel in your account settings. Cancelling stops the renewal. You keep the paid features to the end of the current billing cycle, and then the account becomes a Free one. A subscription bought in the App Store is cancelled, and refunded if at all, through Apple.
Where Grammarly's documents disagree, and what it does not publish
The terms name a plan the pricing page says is being replaced. The referral terms carry the line “Effective as of October 1, 2023” and speak only of Grammarly Premium. Grammarly's pricing page says Grammarly Pro is a new paid tier that will replace Premium, and that Premium users would be moved to Pro gradually through the remainder of 2025. The referral terms do not mention Pro, so they do not say whether someone who has used Pro counts as having used Premium.
Free-plan users are both valid and barred. One line counts “a current user who has never used Grammarly Premium” as a valid referral. Another forbids referring existing customers of Grammarly's products, or customers who have previously used them. The terms do not say which line governs someone already on the Free plan, and Grammarly keeps the right to reject any referral it deems invalid.
If you refer someone yourself. Your own reward is described only in the specific program you take part in, with no size on any public page. Grammarly can change it without notice, it never becomes cash, any tax on it is yours, and Grammarly may “revoke or cancel at our sole discretion”. No end date for the program is printed anywhere.
A dispute goes to arbitration unless you opt out within 30 days. The Terms of Service, effective October 29, 2025, are an agreement with Superhuman, the name the company now uses. They require binding individual arbitration and waive class actions and jury trials. A new user can opt out by email within 30 days of first accepting the terms, giving their name, account email and username. The same document sets the minimum age at 13 under most United States law, lets fees change from your next billing cycle after advance notice, and lets Grammarly limit or downgrade an account whose fees are 30 days or more overdue.
Paying does not lift the document cap. The help center says: “In any 30-day period, you can check up to 300 documents or 150,000 words.” In any 24-hour period the cap is 100 documents or 50,000 words, and the article says this is true for both free and Premium accounts. A membership covers up to five devices.
Is it worth your time?
Not as a reason to sign up. The public terms name nothing for you, so there is nothing to plan around. If a friend already has a link and you have never touched the paid tier, using it costs you nothing that the terms show. Just do not enter a card you would not otherwise have entered.
The decision that matters is the ordinary one. The Free plan is $0 a month with 100 AI prompts. Pro raises that to 2,000 prompts and adds full-sentence rewrites and tone adjustments, at $30 billed monthly or $12 a member a month billed annually. The annual price is the one behind the pricing page's claim of saving up to 60%, and it is also the one you cannot get back if you change your mind in month two. Try a month at $30 first if you are unsure; one month of regret costs less than a year of it.
