European Plagiarism Checker Tools

#1 PlagAware

Neu-Ulm, Germany Prepaid ScanCredits at approx. EUR 0.06 to 0.13 per standard page (250 words, VAT included); volume licences approx. EUR 0.04 to 0.08 per page; educational licence on request; free account with a free check of up to 10 pages Demo on request

Best for: Schools, universities and publishers in German-speaking markets that want an auditable German provider

• Operating company. PlagAware GmbH
• Jurisdiction. EU (Germany)
• Where the data sits. Germany (company headquarters and server location in Germany, per PlagAware)
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Turnitin

PlagAware is a plagiarism scanner from PlagAware GmbH, registered at Neu-Ulm and entered at the Memmingen court under HRB 16671. German law governs the contracts, and Ulm is the stated place of jurisdiction for merchants. A buyer who wants a German registered party for a school or press contract finds the register entry on the site.

PlagAware sells four ways: prepaid ScanCredits, volume licences, flat-rate educational licences and monthly subscriptions for watching websites. The vendor says its servers are in Germany. The retention periods are published on separate pages that we did not read, so check them before a campus roll-out.

Standout feature. PlagAware publishes a price per 250-word page, with VAT included, together with a statement that its headquarters and its servers are both in Germany.

#2 Compilatio

Chavanod, France Not shown on the pages we read; institutional offers by contact Demo on request

Best for: French-speaking and southern European schools and universities that want an EU provider with LMS integration

• Operating company. Compilatio SAS
• Jurisdiction. EU (France)
• Where the data sits. Europe (the GDPR page says data is hosted and protected in Europe; OVH SAS, Roubaix, is named in the legal notice)
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Turnitin

Compilatio is a French plagiarism and AI detection suite from Compilatio SAS, seated at Chavanod near Annecy and registered at Annecy under number 512 216 847. Its legal notice lists a share capital of EUR 234,400 and names a holding company as president. The site runs in French, English, Italian, Spanish, German and Portuguese.

Three products carry the offer: Magister for teachers, Studium for students and Gingo for building and following assessments. Three detectors are listed, for plagiarism, AI and altered text. Data is hosted in Europe according to the GDPR page, and OVH in Roubaix appears in the legal notice. The general terms may name an Italian SRL as contracting party.

Standout feature. Compilatio is the only tool here whose offer is organised around two user groups, with Magister for teachers and Studium for students.

#3 StrikePlagiarism

Warsaw, Poland Individuals: 1 token (18,000 characters) costs 2.33 EUR, tokens valid 6 months; corporate: 0.8 to 2.5 USD/EUR per user, 2 to 5 USD/EUR per document or 0.03 to 0.10 USD/EUR per page Demo on request

Best for: Universities and publishers outside Poland that want a Polish provider with a published tariff

• Operating company. Plagiat.pl sp. z o.o.
• Jurisdiction. EU (Poland)
• Where the data sits. Not stated on the pages we read
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Turnitin

StrikePlagiarism.com is an academic integrity system operated by Plagiat.pl sp. z o.o., whose registered office is at ul. Gdańska 2/67 in Warsaw. The privacy policy names that company as GDPR controller and lists a data protection officer. Customers include universities, schools, publishers and companies, besides private authors who pay per check.

Individuals buy tokens, and the vendor states that individual verification is anonymous, with documents and reports not kept in its database. Corporate accounts are billed per user, per document or per page, within published ranges. Payments run through PayPal and Dotpay. The hosting country and the size of the source databases are not given on the pages we read.

Standout feature. StrikePlagiarism sells one anonymous check as a EUR 2.33 token that covers 18,000 characters and stays valid for six months.

#4 Identific

Vilnius, Lithuania Pay as you go EUR 0.70 per page; Team 300 EUR 38 a month (up to 300 pages); Team 600 EUR 65 a month (up to 600 pages); extra pages EUR 0.20; Institution from EUR 500 Demo on request

Best for: Small teams, departments and institutions that want euro plans, many languages and contract cheating checks

• Operating company. Lingua Intellegens UAB
• Jurisdiction. EU (Lithuania)
• Where the data sits. Not stated on the pages we read
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Turnitin

Identific is the education brand of Lingua Intellegens UAB, registration code 304701806, with its address at Palangos g. 4-101 in Vilnius. Lithuanian law and courts govern the terms. Regional pages list Italy, Lithuania, Spain, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Latvia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Portugal among its markets.

The similarity report draws on a scientific publications database, a student database and an internet database, with 129 languages listed. AI recognition, extra scores and contract cheating detection come on top. The student database depends on what institutions contribute, and no size is stated. The terms page carries an April 2021 date, older than the October 2026 privacy policy.

Standout feature. Identific lists a Team 300 plan at EUR 38 a month, which gives a single department a fixed euro budget with LMS and API access.

#5 Plagiat.pl

Warsaw, Poland Analysis from 1 zloty per page (Polish home page title); institutional prices not shown on the pages we read Demo on request

Best for: Polish universities, schools and publishers that work in Polish and need the national system link

• Operating company. Plagiat.pl Sp. z o.o.
• Jurisdiction. EU (Poland)
• Where the data sits. Not stated on the pages we read
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Turnitin

Plagiat.pl is a Warsaw anti-plagiarism service run by Plagiat.pl Sp. z o.o., KRS 0000236022. Its English page names a managing director, a president of the board and a product manager, and lists share capital of 51,875 zloty. The Polish home page headline offers analysis from 1 zloty per page, which is the only price we saw.

Separate offers exist for universities, schools, businesses and publishers, plus one-off checks for individuals and detection of AI use. The English pages carry a 2019 copyright line, and the cookie policy gives a second Warsaw address, ul. Przanowskiego 32. The page says the service works with StrikePlagiarism.com on the same infrastructure.

Standout feature. Plagiat.pl is the tool in this category that advertises integration with the Polish ministerial system for theses.

#6 Plagiatsprüfung.de

Berlin, Germany 0 to 20 pages EUR 12; 21 to 50 pages EUR 18; 51 to 80 pages EUR 24; from 81 pages EUR 30 (VAT included; one page = 2,000 characters) Demo on request

Best for: Students and authors who need one thesis checked once, in German, with a fixed price

• Operating company. BAS Business And Science GmbH
• Jurisdiction. EU (Germany)
• Where the data sits. Not stated on the pages we read
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Turnitin

Plagiatsprüfung.de is a German plagiarism report service of BAS Business And Science GmbH, Knesebeckstraße 83 in Berlin, entered at the Amtsgericht Charlottenburg under HRB 177157 B. The imprint names Piotr Snuszka as managing director. The site also appears under plagiarismfinder.de.

An author uploads a .doc, .docx, .odt or PDF file and receives a report with a percentage and a link behind every match. The homepage names more than 70 billion sources, a figure we treat as the vendor's own. Delivery is promised within 24 hours in the terms, while the homepage speaks of 15 minutes. A right of withdrawal ends once the report is delivered.

Standout feature. Plagiatsprüfung.de ends the contract at delivery of the report, so no account, subscription or renewal exists.

#7 Docoloc

Braunschweig, Germany Licence fees depend on the expected pages per year; minimum contract three months; price list not shown on the pages we read Demo on request

Best for: German schools and small institutions that want a plain licence-key service run by a local company

• Operating company. Docoloc UG (haftungsbeschränkt) & Co. KG
• Jurisdiction. EU (Germany)
• Where the data sits. Servers operated by Docoloc KG (country not stated on the pages we read)
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Turnitin

Docoloc is a plagiarism search service of Docoloc UG (haftungsbeschränkt) & Co. KG at Methfesselstraße 2 in Braunschweig, entered at the Amtsgericht Braunschweig under HRA 200859. The liable partner is Ifalt UG, HRB 201951, and Dr.-Ing. Jens Brandt is named as managing director. German law applies to the contract.

Licences go to schools, universities, agencies, chambers and publishers, priced by the pages expected per year. The minimum term is three months, with notice of two weeks to the end of a month. The vendor says it passes no data to third parties and that the service runs on its own servers. The terms give no availability guarantee and exclude liability for overload.

Standout feature. Docoloc lets an administrator authorise staff accounts with one licence key and offers sign-in with Microsoft or IServ.

#8 Plagiarism Checker Online

Karlsruhe, Germany From $0.29 per standard page (1,800 characters), pay per scan, no subscription; 10% discount code shown on the site Demo on request

Best for: Students who want a one-off scan against PlagAware's sources and a price per page before paying

• Operating company. Markus Nick (Plagiarism Checker Online)
• Jurisdiction. EU (Germany)
• Where the data sits. Germany (checks processed by PlagAware; web servers at Strato AG in Germany)
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Turnitin

Plagiarism Checker Online is a pay-per-scan site run by Markus Nick, Hinterm Zaun 24, Karlsruhe, according to its imprint. The home page states that scans are powered by PlagAware, and the privacy policy says documents go to PlagAware GmbH in Germany. Web servers are at Strato AG in Germany. The terms were last updated on 4 October 2026.

Billing is per standard page of 1,800 characters, from $0.29, with a plagiarism scan, an AI detection scan and a combined package. Download tokens expire after 48 hours. The operator is a sole trader, prices are in dollars, and the paid AI writing tools process text through a US provider, so the German jurisdiction applies to the scan only.

Standout feature. Plagiarism Checker Online hands each scan to PlagAware in Germany and deletes the files after the report has been produced.

#9 Dolos

Ghent, Belgium Free web application; open source under the MIT licence Demo on request

Best for: Programming teachers who need to compare student code submissions, not written essays

• Operating company. Ghent University (Team Dodona)
• Jurisdiction. EU (Belgium)
• Where the data sits. Not stated; self-hosting and CLI keep files on your own machine
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Turnitin

Dolos is a source code plagiarism detector developed by Team Dodona at Ghent University in Belgium. The project cites its research in SoftwareX (2024) and describes the web application as free, private and fast. The legal entity is the university, so no company imprint exists to read.

The method runs in four steps: tokenization with Tree-sitter, fingerprinting, indexing and reporting. Output includes dashboards and clusters of suspect cases. A CLI, a library and a Docker image come with a self-hosting guide. Out of the box ten languages are covered, among them Java, Python, C and JavaScript. The pages we read name no support contract.

Standout feature. Dolos masks variable and function names before fingerprinting, so a student who renames identifiers in copied code still matches.

#10 JPlag

not stated on the pages we read, Germany Free, open source under GNU GPL version 3 Demo on request

Best for: Teaching teams that must keep student code on their own machines and compare many programs

• Operating company. JPlag project (contact address at ipd.kit.edu)
• Jurisdiction. EU (Germany)
• Where the data sits. Local; JPlag states that no source code or results are uploaded online
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Turnitin

JPlag is an open-source tool that finds pairwise similarities among a set of programs and can detect collusion even when code has been obfuscated. The repository README gives a contact address at ipd.kit.edu, and the licence is the GNU General Public License version 3. No legal entity or street address appears on the pages we read.

It runs from a command line or as a Java library and needs Java SE 25. The language list covers Java, C, C++, C#, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Kotlin, R, Rust, Swift, Scala, LLVM IR, Scheme and EMF models, each with a maturity flag. A plain-text mode exists but is marked naive. Results open in a local viewer, and a CSV export is available.

Standout feature. JPlag runs entirely on the teacher's computer, and its README states that no source code or result is ever uploaded online.

#11 Plagramme

Vilnius, Lithuania Founded 2011 Basic USD 14.95 a month (10,000 credits), Student USD 29.95 a month (30,000 credits), PRO Unlimited USD 299.95 a month; 1 credit per word per check Demo on request

Best for: Individual authors who need a multilingual check including translated plagiarism

• Operating company. Lingua Intellegens UAB
• Jurisdiction. EU (Lithuania)
• Where the data sits. Not stated on the pages we read
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Turnitin

Plagramme is a plagiarism and AI detection website from Lingua Intellegens UAB, which names itself data controller at Palangos St. 4-101 in Vilnius. The vendor says it was established in 2011 and is used in more than 120 countries, claims we could not verify. The terms, updated on 17 January 2025, send disputes to Lithuanian courts.

Monthly plans run in US dollars: USD 14.95 for 10,000 credits, USD 29.95 for 30,000 credits and USD 299.95 for the unlimited plan. Free scores appear on upload. The vendor says uploaded files never enter a comparison database. The same site sells plagiarism removal, formatting and document revision, which suits authors more than a school.

Standout feature. Plagramme counts a translated-plagiarism check as one credit per word, the same unit as a normal check.

#12 Plag.es

Vilnius, Lithuania Basic EUR 14.95 a month (10,000 credits), Student EUR 29.95 a month (30,000 credits), PRO Unlimited EUR 299.95 a month; 1 credit per word Demo on request

Best for: Spanish-speaking students who want a pre-submission check priced in euros

• Operating company. Lingua Intellegens UAB
• Jurisdiction. EU (Lithuania)
• Where the data sits. Not stated on the pages we read
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Turnitin

Plag.es is the Spanish-language site of the Plagramme family. Its privacy policy names LINGUA INTELLEGENS, UAB at Palangos St. 4-101 in Vilnius and gives the Lithuanian State Data Protection Inspectorate as the complaints authority. The home page says a document is never shared or kept in external databases.

Euro plans mirror the Plagramme ladder: EUR 14.95 a month for 10,000 credits, EUR 29.95 for 30,000 and EUR 299.95 for unlimited use, at one credit per word. An AI detector covers more than 50 languages. Removal and humanising services are on sale as well. No teacher accounts or LMS connection are listed, and the hosting country is not stated.

Standout feature. Plag.es offers a free analysis of three documents in a Spanish interface before any euro plan is bought.