PaperHelp Alternative? What It Costs, and What You Actually Risk

What PaperHelp is, and what we are

PaperHelpis an essay-writing service. You pay someone to produce a thesis that is meant to be handed in under your name. A bachelor's thesis runs to roughly ~$390–500+ ($13/page), a master's to ~$700–1,200+, and delivery takes weeks.

ThesisDraft does not do that, and no longer offers anything close to it. We used to sell a researched reference draft. It was withdrawn in August 2026 — in ten months not one student bought it, which is a clear enough answer. What we sell now is a check on the thesis you wrote: an AI detector and a plagiarism and citation check, free on your first 1,500 words and EUR 4.99 once for a whole document.

So this is not a cheaper-ghostwriter comparison. If what you want is somebody else to write your thesis, we are not an alternative to PaperHelp and we will not pretend to be. What follows is what that purchase actually costs you — and what the other option looks like.

Side by side

What each one costs

PaperHelp charges ~$390–500+ ($13/page) for a bachelor's thesis and ~$700–1,200+ for a master's. Our check is free for your first 1,500 words and EUR 4.99 for a full document, once, with fourteen days of unlimited re-checks.

Setting those two numbers against each other would be dishonest, and we are not going to. They buy completely different things: one is a thesis written for you, the other tells you what a detector sees in a thesis you wrote yourself. The comparison worth making is not which is cheaper. It is what each one leaves you holding at the viva.

The declaration of authorship

Ghostwriting is not itself a crime in Germany. Submitting the result as your own work is a different matter: every German thesis carries a sworn declaration of authorship (eidesstattliche Erklärung), and signing one for work you did not write engages§ 156 StGB— up to three years' imprisonment or a fine. Universities can also revoke a degree years after it was awarded, and they do.

That risk does not scale with price. It is identical whether the thesis cost ~$390–500+ ($13/page) or a fraction of it, and it does not expire when you graduate. It is the single most important thing to understand before paying PaperHelp anything.

Sources that do not exist

The most common way outsourced work is caught is not style. It is citations. A supervisor picks two references and looks for them, and they are not there — wrong volume, wrong year, or wholly invented. This happens with human writers working at speed and it happens far more with AI-assisted ones, because a language model asked for a reference will produce something that looks exactly right and is not real.

You cannot defend a citation you did not make. This is also the problem the workspace we are building is aimed at: it keeps the papers you actually uploaded beside your document, and an assistant that can only cite passages those papers contain — so a reference either points at a line you can open and read, or it is not made.

What we never ask you for

PaperHelp needs to know who you are: a name, an email, usually your university and your topic. That record ties you to the transaction for as long as it exists.

We never ask for a name, a university, a supervisor or a matriculation number, because those identify a student faster than a name does. Payment and document content sit in separate systems joined only by a derived order code, so no mapping from a payment to a submission exists anywhere in what we hold. A disposable or relay email address is fine.

The honest answer

If you are looking at PaperHelp because the deadline is close and the work is not done, a comparison page is not going to fix that, and we are not going to sell you something on the strength of it.

What we would say is this: the thing that ends academic careers is not a weak thesis, it is a signed declaration that is untrue. A mediocre thesis you wrote is recoverable. A good one you did not write is not, and it stays that way for as long as the degree does.

If you are writing it yourself and want to know what a detector will make of it before your supervisor runs one, that is what we are for — free for the first 1,500 words, with our measured error rate printed beside the verdict, because a number without an error rate is not evidence.