Medium, Extra or Max: which strength to pick
October 6, 2026 · 5 min read
Samesay's engine does one thing: it rewrites a passage, then rewrites its own rewrite, and so on for a fixed number of passes. Three passes is Medium, five is Extra, ten is Max. Each pass starts from the last, so the text drifts a little further from your draft every time. That drift is the point, and it is also the risk.
Medium keeps the structure and most of the wording choices of your draft. Sentences get reworded, stock phrases tend to disappear, figures usually survive. If you wrote the draft yourself and want it to read less mechanical, start here. It is also the fastest.
Extra reshapes more: sentences get shorter or merge, the register gets plainer, the order of ideas can move inside a paragraph. The caution in a sentence like "the findings should be interpreted with caution" usually survives, but a percent sign or a unit can go missing. Read the meaning check before you copy.
Max is the setting of the research paper the engine comes from. After ten passes the text is rebuilt rather than reworded. On a short paragraph it can lose a qualifier, turn a possibility into a statement, or invent a detail that was never there. It is the strength to use on a text you will read line by line afterwards, not on one you will paste and send.
Whatever the strength, ask for two or three versions when the text matters. They are independent runs, and Samesay ranks them by the meaning check, so the one that kept your figures and names comes first. The diff view then shows every word that moved.
A simple rule: Medium for anything with numbers, names or claims you must keep; Extra for prose where tone matters more than precision; Max when you want distance from the draft and have the time to check it.