Why Grammarly Is Still Charging You After You Cancelled
If Grammarly charged you after you cancelled, check the date on the invoice before anything else. Grammarly bills in advance, at the start of each billing cycle, and its help pages say a charge can take a few days to appear on your bank statement. A charge that reached your statement after you cancelled may have been taken before you cancelled.
This post lists seven documented reasons a charge can follow a cancellation, shows how to stop each one, and explains what Grammarly's refund policy says. Every cause comes from Grammarly's own help pages and Terms of Service, linked as we go. Grammarly is now part of Superhuman, so some pages and emails use that name. We can't see your account, so use the list as a checklist to compare against your invoices, not as a diagnosis.
| Reason | What it looks like | What stops it |
|---|---|---|
| Renewal taken before you cancelled | A charge that posts days after you cancelled | Check the invoice date. Cancel before the billing date next time. |
| Cancelling ends at the end of the cycle | Paid features still work after you cancel | Nothing more to do. Check the end date. |
| A second account | Charges continue from an account you did not cancel | Search your inboxes for "Grammarly" and "Superhuman". |
| A different price | A bigger charge than last time or than the listed price | Check the promo, seats and tax on the invoice. |
| Free trial converted | A charge when the trial ended | Cancel before the trial ends. |
| Bought through the App Store | Apple keeps billing you | Cancel in your Apple subscriptions. |
| Team seats added | A prorated charge, then a larger renewal | Review paid seats on the Members page. |
The renewal was taken before you cancelled
Grammarly's page on how you are charged says your subscription renews automatically unless you cancel before the end of the current billing cycle. It adds that charges are billed at the beginning of the cycle and may take a few days to appear on your bank statement. The Terms of Service say the same: Grammarly bills in advance, monthly or annually.
If you cancelled after your billing date, the renewal for that period had already gone through. The date on the invoice, not the date on the bank statement, tells you which side of your cancellation it fell on. Grammarly also starts billing on the day you are given access, whether or not you have set anything up.
Cancelling takes effect at the end of your billing cycle
Cancelling stops the automatic renewal, but Grammarly says you keep access to all paid features for the rest of the period you have paid for. At the end of that billing cycle your account becomes a free one, and all future payments for the paid plan are cancelled. Its page on managing a Superhuman subscription adds that previous charges are not refunded.
So a charge taken before you cancelled belongs to the period you are still using. A charge dated after your cancellation, and after the end date on your Subscription page, is the one to question.
You have a second Grammarly or Superhuman account
Grammarly's own page on being billed after you cancelled gives this as the reason to check. You might have another subscription on a different account, which can happen if you mistype your email address or create a second account by accident.
Grammarly says to search every inbox you use for the words "Grammarly" and "Superhuman". If you find a billing email for an address you did not expect, reset the password on that account, sign in, and cancel there. If that does not work, the page points to a "Look up a purchase" form to find the paid account.
The price is not the one you remember
Grammarly says promotional offers are valid for one subscription period only, and the plan then renews at the standard rate. On a team plan, a promotion applies to the first seat only, so added seats cost the standard price. Grammarly's page on bigger charges covers both cases.
Two more things can change the amount. The Terms say Grammarly may change its fees with advance notice, applied from your next billing cycle. They also say the stated fees are exclusive of taxes, so the charge can be higher than the price on the plans page.
Your free trial turned into a paid plan
For a seven-day trial of a paid plan, Grammarly says you are not charged before the trial ends. A pending transaction during the trial is most likely a temporary verification charge, shown as Pending, which is removed if you cancel or replaced by the real charge if you keep the plan. The plans page also says Grammarly emails a reminder two days before a trial ends.
Cancelling during the trial ends it immediately and moves your account to the free version without any charges, and Grammarly says your data is not lost. Not cancelling is what converts the trial into a paid subscription.
We checked this on a Pro trial in October 2026. The Subscription page said "You haven't been charged yet", gave the exact date and time the trial ends, and stated what would be charged then: $144.00 USD plus applicable taxes for an annual Pro subscription with one seat. A second banner counted the days left before the trial ended.
You bought through the App Store
If you subscribed through Apple, cancelling on the Grammarly site does not stop Apple billing you. Grammarly's cancellation page tells App Store customers to cancel in their Apple subscriptions. The refund page adds that refunds for those purchases come from Apple.
On an iPhone or iPad, open Settings, tap your name, then Subscriptions, and look for Grammarly there. If it is listed, that is where the charge is coming from.
Team seats were added
On a team plan, adding a paid seat is billed in two steps. Grammarly charges a prorated amount for the rest of the current period, then the full amount for the updated number of seats on the next renewal date. The renewal after an invite can therefore be larger than the one before.
Seats are managed on the Members page. If you did not mean to add one, check who was invited as a paid member before your renewal date.
Grammarly notes that a charge on a card you never added is likely because your bank automatically updated your billing details, so recurring payments continue after a card is replaced. In some cases, recurring charges are allowed on an expired card. If this worries you, Grammarly says to contact your bank.
How to Stop Grammarly Charging You After You Cancel
Work through these in order. The first two steps find the plan that is billing you, and the rest end it.
Sign in, open the Account tab in the left sidebar, then Your account, then Subscription. It shows your next billing date and the current or queued subscription. On the page we checked, a banner stated the next charge and when it would be taken, and a Billing History table listed each payment with its date, amount, description, receipt and invoice.
Search each email address you use for "Grammarly" and "Superhuman". Billing emails from an address you did not expect point to a second account.
On the Subscription page, select Cancel Subscription, the link at the bottom of the page beside Change Subscription, then Continue. Choose a reason and select Cancel Subscription again. On a phone, use account.grammarly.com. If you subscribed through the App Store, cancel in your Apple subscriptions instead.
Take a screenshot of the Subscription page after cancelling, with the date visible, and keep any email Grammarly sends. It is your evidence if a charge arrives later.
Your paid features continue until the end of the period you have paid for. If the page still shows an upcoming renewal, the cancellation may not have gone through, so repeat it.
Open the Members page and check who is a paid member. Seats added during the period are charged in full at the next renewal.
Grammarly says that if you use Superhuman, cancelling through your Grammarly account applies across the other apps in the Superhuman suite. Check which products your plan covers before you cancel.
Can You Get a Refund From Grammarly After Cancelling?
Cancelling a subscription and getting money back are two separate things. Grammarly's refund page says you can cancel at any time, but that refunds are issued only if required by law. The Terms say that, to the fullest extent the law allows, payments are non-refundable and there are no refunds or credits for partly used periods. They also say local laws that give you cancellation rights are not overridden.
Grammarly does describe two routes that are not a plain refund request. For a payment made in error, its billing policy says to submit a support request describing the problem, and that it will review the case and assist with your refund request. If it does not reply within 24 hours, it says to check your spam folder.
If you do not recognise a charge from Grammarly or Superhuman at all, Grammarly asks you to contact it immediately. It says it can cancel any subscription made without your consent and block further charges to your card or PayPal account. For App Store purchases, the refund request goes to Apple.
Grammarly does not list what a request should include, so a sensible one has the invoice date and amount, the email address on the account, the date you cancelled, and your screenshot of the Subscription page. Its pages carry no date, and we read them in October 2026, so check the live page before relying on any detail.
Why Did Grammarly Charge You $144?
The amount people search for most is $144. Grammarly's pricing article gives the US annual price of Grammarly Pro as $144 per member per year, which Grammarly describes as an average of $12 a month. The $12 is an average. The bank is charged the full year at once.
| Grammarly Pro billing period (US dollars) | Price per member |
|---|---|
| Monthly | $30 a month |
| Quarterly | $60 every three months |
| Annual | $144 a year ($12 average a month) |
If your statement shows exactly $144, the likeliest explanation is an annual renewal or an annual purchase, since that is the annual Pro price. It is also what the trial we checked converts into: the annual plan, not the monthly one. Only the invoice can confirm what a particular charge is for. Check the amount and the plan on your Subscription page, and remember that tax is added on top where it applies and that extra seats are charged at the same rates.
Grammarly says the default currency is the US dollar, with regional pricing in euros, pounds and Indian rupees shown at checkout, and that Grammarly Pro replaced the Grammarly Business plan. Prices change, so check the live plans page.
What to Do if the Charge Still Looks Wrong
If you have worked through the list and a charge still does not fit, gather your evidence before you contact anyone. You need the invoice with its date and amount, the email address on the account, the date you cancelled, and your screenshot.
Escalation path
Use the Submit a request link on its support pages. The Terms also give care@superhuman.com for help with cancelling. Include the details above and say plainly that you want to cancel and have the charge reviewed.
Ask Grammarly to confirm by email whether the charge will be reversed and whether any more are due. Keep the conversation. A dispute with your bank is the next step if support declines, and it is a separate process from cancelling.
Grammarly's help pages describe no chargeback process, and we found no source on what happens to an account after a dispute. If you still rely on your documents or a team plan, weigh that before you go to your bank. A dispute may not succeed.
Where Grammarly Sits on the Dark Pattern Scorecard
BillSensor scores 68 SaaS tools from 1 to 10 on how hard they make it to cancel. Grammarly scores 5 out of 10, in the low-to-medium range. The note on its row in the scorecard of SaaS tools ranked by cancellation difficulty is "Annual auto-renewal", which is why the date matters so much.
That is our assessment, not a statement about Grammarly's intent. Cancelling takes a few clicks on the Subscription page. The difficulty is that a full year is billed in advance and renews automatically, so the moment to cancel is before the billing date, not after.
How to Catch a Grammarly Renewal Before It Lands
The hard part is that an annual renewal arrives once a year, long after you have forgotten it. BillSensor reads billing emails, so it can see a Grammarly receipt when it lands in your inbox and warn you before the next one.
On every plan, BillSensor detects Grammarly billing emails in Gmail and Outlook and sends a Chrome notification 7 days before a renewal. On Pro and Business plans, you can mark a subscription as cancelled, and if a billing email from that tool arrives afterwards you get an alert. Pro and Business also add a second warning 3 days before each charge. A seven-day trial like this one is shorter than that window, so for trials of seven days or less BillSensor moves the warnings closer: the first at half the trial length, rounded down, and the last one day before the first charge. On Pro and Business, it also emails you after a trial ends and asks whether it converted. In Gmail there is no connection to set up and the email content stays in your browser. In Outlook the scan runs on our servers, and the content is processed but not stored. How BillSensor reads Gmail and Outlook explains the difference.
There are limits. BillSensor works from billing emails, so it cannot see a charge that sends no receipt to your inbox. It cannot cancel a subscription or stop a charge. It tells you early enough to act.
Check your subscriptions with BillSensor
BillSensor detects billing emails from Grammarly and the other SaaS tools you pay for, and alerts you before the next renewal. On Pro and Business plans it also alerts you if a tool bills you after you have marked it as cancelled.
Add BillSensor to Chrome, free →Free account required. No Gmail connection needed. Outlook and Microsoft 365 supported.