Honest pricing. Your first review is free.
A developmental edit costs $2,000 to $5,000 and takes weeks. A written manuscript assessment runs several hundred at least. Novel Maestro gives you the same kind of deep, structural read in minutes — and your first one is free.
No credit card. No trial that expires. Just upload your book and see what it finds.
Start free. Pay only when you're ready to go deeper.
We are currently holding our launch pricing. The Per Manuscript plan is a founding price of $199, rising to the official $399 after launch.
Every free account includes a fully-unlocked copy of our sample novel. You can see every screen of the product working on a real manuscript before deciding whether to hand over your own.
Free
no card, no catch
For seeing what Novel Maestro finds in your book.
- Maestro's First Take — Your One Thing, Your First Move, and the full editorial walkthrough of your manuscript
- The one issue most worth fixing first — grounded to the exact passage
- Access to the manuscript editor to work in your own text
- One manuscript, one read (a read is a full analysis pass of your whole book)
- Your manuscript and its read stay in your account permanently and become your upgrade path
- A fully-unlocked copy of the sample novel — read, diagnosed, and ready to explore, which doesn't spend your free read
Per Manuscript
For taking one novel all the way to a finished draft.
- Everything in Free, plus:
- Your complete diagnosis — every finding, grounded to the page
- All fourteen diagnostics — tension, agency, causality, threads, promise & payoff, genre, and more
- My Tasks — an ordered revision plan as checkable tasks, each linked to its passage
- Unlimited reads, so you can revise and re-check as your book improves
- Unlimited Workshop — ask the reader who read every word
- Full access for 12 months. After that, reports, notes and the manuscript stay readable but no new reads can be run.
Editing professionally or managing a client list? See our tools for editors and agents →
Revise freely.
A 'read' is a complete analysis of your whole book — the thing that takes a few minutes and does the deep work. Your first review is free. When you unlock a book, you get unlimited reads, so you can revise, re-read, and watch your problems close as many times as normal revision needs.
Everything included, side by side.
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Give the read to a writer who needs it.
Know someone with a novel in a drawer? Give them the read that gets it out. Gift a single book unlock, delivered with a note. There's nothing for them to set up; just the read they've been waiting for.
Your words stay yours.
Your manuscript is private and never used to train AI.
No subscription trap.
Unlocking a book is a single payment that gives you 12 months of full access. There is no automatic renewal and nothing to cancel.
Nothing to configure.
No API keys, no setup. Upload and read.
Find out what's holding your book back.
Your first review is free. Everything else is here when you're ready to fix it.
Free first review · No credit card · Your manuscript is never used to train AI