Paperguide
Paperguide combines paper search, literature review, reference management, extraction, and cited writing in one AI research workspace.
About Paperguide
Paperguide puts paper search, literature analysis, PDF chat, data extraction, academic writing, citation formatting, and reference management in one workspace. A student or researcher can find sources, examine them, organize a review, and draft a cited document without moving the project across several separate tools. Its Literature Review Agent and Deep Research reports suit broad questions, while extraction tables make results from multiple papers easier to compare. The plan limits matter in regular use. Free is enough to test the workflow, though it caps searches, storage, PDF chats, extraction capacity, credits, and API requests. Plus removes several of those limits and includes plagiarism checking. Pro provides more monthly credits and Search API requests. Enterprise is aimed at institutions that need shared references, centralized billing, member controls, and custom limits. The privacy policy covers collection of device and order information, a practical consideration when research work includes account, billing, or manuscript data.
Best for
Best use cases
Use one workspace to search a topic, review papers, save references, and draft a cited literature review.
Compare findings across a paper set in an extraction table before writing a synthesis or research report.
Connect programmatic paper search to a research project through the Search API within the chosen monthly allowance.
Compare before choosing
Compared with separate search and reference tools, Paperguide keeps discovery, analysis, writing, and citations in one workflow.
The Free plan supports a real trial workflow, but its search, storage, extraction, credit, chat, and API limits restrict heavier projects.
Plus and Pro suit individual high-volume use, while Enterprise adds team administration and shared reference management.
Features
Literature review workflow
Search for papers, analyze the literature, create review material, and keep citations and references together in one research workspace.
Evidence-backed academic writing
Use the AI Writer with research material and more than 1,000 citation styles to prepare documents with managed references.
Structured paper extraction
Build extraction tables across papers, with plan limits controlling the number of columns and papers processed at one time.
Research search integration
Use the Search API when a project needs programmatic paper search, with monthly request limits that vary by plan.
Pros
- Combines paper search, PDF chat, extraction, writing, citations, and reference management in one connected workflow.
- A genuine $0 plan supports ongoing use with monthly credits, searches, storage, extraction, and Search API allowances.
- Paid plans remove several workflow limits, while Enterprise adds shared references, billing, and member administration.
Cons
- The Free plan caps AI searches, reference storage, PDF chats, extraction table capacity, credits, and API requests.
- The listed Plus and Pro prices require annual billing, so the effective commitment is longer than a month-to-month purchase.
- The privacy policy describes collection of device and order information, which matters for teams reviewing data handling requirements.
Pricing Plans
Free
- 1,000 AI credits per month
- 20 AI searches per month
- 500MB reference storage
- Limited chats with PDF
- Literature Review Agent
- Deep Research reports
- Data Extraction Table
- 5 extract columns per table
- 10 papers per extract table at a time
- AI Writer
- Reference Manager
- 1,000+ citation styles
- 10 Search API requests per month
Plus
- 12,500 AI credits per month
- Unlimited AI searches
- Unlimited reference storage
- Unlimited chats with PDF
- Literature Review Agent
- Deep Research reports
- Data Extraction Table
- 50 extract columns per table
- 100 papers per extract table at a time
- AI Writer
- Plagiarism Checker
- 100 Search API requests per month
Pro
- 50,000 AI credits per month
- Unlimited AI searches
- Unlimited reference storage
- Unlimited chats with PDF
- Literature Review Agent
- Deep Research reports
- Data Extraction Table
- 50 extract columns per table
- 100 papers per extract table at a time
- AI Writer
- Plagiarism Checker
- 500 Search API requests per month
Enterprise
- Custom credit limits
- Unlimited AI searches
- Unlimited reference storage
- Unlimited chats with PDF
- Unlimited Ask AI Writer words
- Centralized billing
- Member management
- Shared reference manager
- Everything in Pro
- Unlimited Search API requests
* Pricing information is for reference only. Please refer to the latest announcement on Paperguide's official website.