Updated July 2026. Written by the team behind Auteurium; our own product appears once, clearly labeled, and the numbers stand without it.
Feedback on a feature screenplay in 2026 runs from a $9 AI report to $500 an hour for a name consultant, and the market now splits cleanly into two tiers: human reads and AI reads. Below is every current price we could confirm on a live pricing page in July 2026, what each tier actually buys, and the math nobody shows you: the cost of a full rewrite cycle, not one read.
Across 2025, the mid-market of paid coverage collapsed. WeScreenplay stopped taking coverage orders early in the year, ScreenCraft and The Script Lab followed, and Coverfly, the platform that tied the whole ecosystem together, was sunset on August 1, 2025. Fewer human services survived, their effective prices drifted up, and a wave of AI tools moved into the vacated $10 to $100 space. That is the market the table below describes.
Background: No Film School on the Coverfly closure and the ScreenCraft, Script Lab, and WeScreenplay shutdowns. Where each displaced piece of Coverfly went is its own guide: the post-Coverfly map.
| Service | Type | Price | Turnaround |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISA script notes | Human | $69 full-script notes; $99 deep dive; $39 first-20-pages read | Not published |
| Coverage Ink | Human | From $89 (CI Lite); $129 standard; $349 pro tier | Standard queue; 5-day semi-rush $49 |
| The Black List evaluation | Human | $100 per feature; site hosting is separate at $30 a month | Days to weeks |
| Screenplay Readers | Human | $159 one reader; $249 two; $349 three | 3 business days; 24-hour rush from $97 |
| Script Reader Pro | Human | From $185 (Classic); from $449 (Deluxe) | 14 days; 3-day and 7-day rush options |
| Independent consultants | Human | $120 to $500 an hour; packages $1,500 and up | Weeks |
| Roast My Script | AI | $9 for a 5-page report; $25 deep report listed as coming soon | 1 to 2 business days |
| ScriptReader.ai | AI | $9.99 per script; $40 for five | Minutes |
| OnDesk | AI | 3 reports free, then $20 a month for 8 scripts or $100 a month for 20 | Minutes |
| Prescene | AI | $29 per script; subscriptions from $50 a month | Minutes |
| Callaia | AI | From $65 per script | Under a minute |
| Greenlight Coverage | AI | $75 a month for 2 scripts, up to $345 a month for 15; $209 for a 3-script pack | 15 minutes to 2 hours |
| ScreenplayIQ (WriterDuet) | AI | Check current pricing on their site; not published on a page we could confirm | Minutes |
Every price above was checked against the service's live public pricing page in July 2026. Where a number could not be confirmed on a live page, the table says so instead of guessing. Prices change; treat this as the map, not the invoice.
Read the two tiers as different products, not as a discount ladder. A human read is a stranger's judgment plus, at the top end, career context. An AI read is pattern analysis at a speed and price that changes how often you can afford to hear notes. The expensive mistake is buying either one to do the other's job.
One honest caveat cuts the other way: the chronic, documented complaint about the coverage economy is reader-to-reader variance, the same script scoring wildly differently on consecutive human reads. Paying more does not reliably buy consistency. Budget for the second read before you trust the first.
AI reads well in specific lanes: structure and setup tracking across a long document, continuity, and speed. Notes tonight on the pages you wrote tonight, then again after the rewrite. No human service sells that loop at any price, and the loop is where drafts improve. Used before a human read, fast notes catch the problems you would otherwise pay $75 to $200 for a professional to point out.
The failure modes are just as specific: flattery mills that praise everything, tone misreads, and horoscope notes that apply to every script ever written. The documented cases, and the four questions that separate a serious tool from a toy, are in our companion guide: AI script feedback: what it can and can't do.
One read is not how development works. A serious draft goes through the loop several times: get notes, revise, get notes again. So price feedback the way you actually spend it, per cycle:
Writers on forums report spending $500 to several thousand dollars taking one feature through multiple rounds of paid feedback. The tier matters less than matching it to the draft: early drafts need fast, frequent iteration; a finished draft deserves the human money.
Auteurium sits between human reads, not in place of them: development notes inside the editor, while you write. Calibrated AI readers give notes on your pages and a referee filters out the nitpicks; a full development read costs about $3 on the Pro plan ($39 a month, roughly twelve full reads if you used it for nothing else). It reads. It never writes your script.
What it honestly is not: coverage. There is no score, no verdict, no readership, and no human stranger. If you need an evaluation to show a producer, buy a human read. What Auteurium covers is the middle of the loop, the notes between drafts, at a price and speed that let the $100-plus human read land on a draft that can use it. Our readers' testing is public, including the numbers and the limits: how our readers are tested.