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Freemium

Sign-up is free to start, with paid plans listed on its pricing page.

 Freemium

Free sign-up, with paid plans for more usage and enterprise options.

Web Web
  • Paper and notes shown side by side
  • Ask questions, summarize and proofread uploaded documents
  • Search across more than 280 million papers
  • Chat with PDF to explain difficult papers
  • Web only, with documents uploaded to the service
  • AI-generated text needs careful checking before academic use
  • AI summaries of papers still need checking against the source
  • Full features require a paid plan
Web application Web application
Closed source Closed source
License not stated License not stated
Account needed Account needed
Needs internet Needs internet

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