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It's hard to test it since the majority of features are behind a paywall.

Honestly i've been using it free for over a year now and I'm very happy with it. I think the free tier is worth the shot.

Free tier is great, especially if you invest in writing your own rules.

Even when you selfhost your instance, It is worse than the free-tier unless you keep ngrams database updated routinely.

Unlike other products, self hosting only gives you the same as their basic version. So even keeping it up to date will never match their premium offering. This is of course fine, just making people aware before they spend time setting it up because they don't make this very clear (I had to find a Github issue to get this conformation in writing)

The free self-hosted version you can download from https://languagetool.org/download/ lacks all the premium rules (several thousand rules for English, German, French, Spanish and Dutch) and AI-based rules.[1]

[1]: https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool/issues/6750

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