Head to head · August 2026 cycle
Humbot vs WriteHuman
WriteHuman finished 9.7 points ahead of Humbot in the August 2026 cycle, 76.69 to 66.95, ranking #1 against #5 in a field of 12. WriteHuman scored higher on 4 of 5 detectors and 6 of 7 writing categories. Humbot came out ahead on Copyleaks (80.3 vs 67.1), news article prompts (71.7 vs 67.8) and meaning preservation (75.4 vs 71.7). The bypass-rate gap, 71.7 to 89.1, sits inside both tools' 95% confidence intervals, so treat bypass as a draw.
- Detectors
- 1 – 4
- Categories
- 1 – 6
- Components
- 1 – 3 (1 tie)
Score components
What the overall score is made of: bypass rate weighs 42%, meaning preservation 32%, readability 16%, consistency across categories 10%. Output-quality penalties come off the total. How scoring works →
CIs overlap marks a gap that sits inside both tools' published 95% confidence intervals for that component; it may not survive another cycle.
Detector by detector
Share of each tool's outputs that a detector classified as human-written. WriteHuman took 4 of 5.
Writing categories
Category score per writing context: bypass credit only for real rewrites, blended with the category's own meaning preservation and readability. Small categories swing; the prompt count is shown on each row. How category scores work →
Head-to-head history
Overall score in every cycle both tools were tested. WriteHuman has finished ahead in 3 of 3 shared cycles.
| Cycle | Humbot | WriteHuman | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | 66.95 #5 | 76.69 #1 | → 9.7 |
| July 2026 | 66.42 #5 | 73.07 #1 | → 6.6 |
| June 2026 | 80.28 #4 | 83.59 #2 | → 3.3 |
Where each one wins
Every measure above that one tool won outright, largest margin first within each group.
Humbot
3 wins- Meaning preservation Score 75.4 vs 71.7
- Copyleaks Detector 80.3 vs 67.1
- News Article Category 71.7 vs 67.8
WriteHuman
13 wins- Bypass rate Score 89.1 vs 71.7
- Readability Score 57.8 vs 43.3
- Consistency Score 80.8 vs 67.6
- GPTZero Detector 88.4 vs 21.8
- Originality.ai Detector 66.5 vs 31.5
- Winston AI Detector 83.8 vs 77.6
- ZeroGPT Detector 84.7 vs 83.6
- Business Email Category 60.3 vs 37.4
- Application Essay Category 78.3 vs 61.5
- Discussion Board Category 84.9 vs 68.4
- and 3 more
Questions people ask
Is Humbot better than WriteHuman?
WriteHuman finished 9.7 points ahead of Humbot in the August 2026 cycle, 76.69 to 66.95, ranking #1 against #5 in a field of 12. WriteHuman scored higher on 4 of 5 detectors and 6 of 7 writing categories. Both tools ran the same 33 prompts, scored by the same 5 detectors, under methodology v1.2.0; every input, output and verdict is published.
Which bypasses AI detectors better, Humbot or WriteHuman?
WriteHuman posted the higher bypass rate, 89.1 vs 71.7, and scored higher on 4 of 5 detectors. Humbot led on Copyleaks; WriteHuman led on GPTZero, Originality.ai, Winston AI and ZeroGPT. The overall bypass gap is inside both 95% confidence intervals, so it is not a reliable difference.
Do Humbot and WriteHuman keep the original meaning?
Humbot preserved meaning better, 75.4 vs 71.7 on our 0–100 similarity scale, though the confidence intervals overlap. On readability, WriteHuman rated higher, 57.8 vs 43.3. Penalties this cycle: Humbot −1.0, WriteHuman −1.0.