The whole research desk, for less than one paywalled article a month.

It depends where you are. In India, 3 days of full Pro cost ₹48 and become Pro at ₹899 a month, so you are never locked out mid-sentence, and cancelling before then charges nothing further. Everywhere else you get 7 days of full Pro without entering a card, and the workspace settles onto the free plan when the week is up.

We offer a full refund within the first 7 days of any paid plan. No questions asked. After that, you can cancel any time and your plan stays active until the end of the billing cycle.

Yes, and you can buy it from anywhere. Outside India, Pro and Lab are priced in US dollars (Pro is $19 a month, Lab is $99 a month), and a new account starts with 7 days of full Pro with no card. In India, billing stays in rupees. Institutions anywhere can also be set up directly on Campus: write to hello@alfredscholar.com.

Campus is for whole departments and universities: everything in Lab, scaled to your institution with seats, centralized billing and procurement, onboarding for your team, and priority support. Pricing is tailored to your needs and available worldwide. Email hello@alfredscholar.com to talk it through.

Yes. Every payment sends a receipt to your email that you can keep for your records. Pay with UPI, cards, and more. For institutional or bulk billing, write to hello@alfredscholar.com and we will help.

Our Pro plan at ₹899/month is already priced with PhD scholars in mind. If your institution is interested in bulk Lab or Campus plans, reach out to us at hello@alfredscholar.com.

You can upgrade or downgrade anytime. Upgrades take effect immediately. When downgrading, the change takes effect at the end of your current billing cycle.

Telescope compares the papers you choose in one matrix: one row per paper, one column per question, every cell cited to the exact page, with a synthesis that names the gaps. Pro includes 3 analyses a month and Lab includes 10. Loops is a weekly research digest: pick up to five keywords and a time, and Alfred emails you what changed in your field over the last seven days, with sources. Both are included with every paid plan.

Second Brain is the memory behind Ask Alfred. After each conversation, Alfred captures the durable learnings, your research directions, decisions, and conclusions, as connected notes filed into folders. The notes are yours to edit, they link to each other, they trace back to the conversations that made them, and they feed future answers so Alfred remembers where you left off. It is included with every paid plan, and you can pause capture whenever you like.

Yes. On any paid plan, or during your trial, a workspace owner can connect a key from Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, OpenRouter, or Amazon Bedrock in Settings, and your chat runs on it with your message limits lifted. One key is active at a time, and you pay your provider directly for what you use. Embeddings and originality checks always stay on Alfred Scholar's shared engine, so search and plagiarism detection keep working. You can remove your key at any time.

You do. Your documents, citations, manuscripts, and all research data belong to you. We never use your data to train AI models. You can export everything at any time.

Standard is fast and handles everyday questions well. Advanced is more capable for nuanced research queries and complex citations. Frontier is the most powerful model, ideal for systematic reviews and multi-paper analysis.