Pricing

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

Ask your papers questions and get answers cited to the page, track what changes in your field, and write and submit, all in one calm workspace. Every workspace starts with a free 3-day Pro trial.

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“Keeping track of articles, notes, references, and citations across platforms was very challenging. Alfred Scholar brought everything together in one place, and managing the citations has saved a lot of time and the stress of organising references.”

Amruta Gaikwad · Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University

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Pro

Everything a serious researcher needs, on their own.

₹10,788 ₹8998,999 /month/year

Billed monthly. Cancel anytime.

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≈ ₹30 a day≈ ₹25 a day less than the chai that fuels the all-nighter. a coffee costs more, and lasts an hour.

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Ask & verify

Unlimited documents
1,000 AI messages a day
Every answer cited to the page
Advanced AI model
Voice dictation
Bring your own AI key

Discover & track

3 Telescope analyses a month
Weekly research Loops
Second Brain notes from your chats

Write & submit

Unlimited citations & manuscripts
All citation styles
1 plagiarism check a month
3 peer reviewers

Connected & yours

Zotero & Mendeley sync
Export anytime, no lock-in
Email support

Prefer to pay once? The lifetime edition is just below.

Founding Scholar A numbered edition of one hundred

₹26,999 $349 once

Paid once. Yours for as long as Alfred Scholar exists.

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Your one payment funds a calm, independent workspace, with no investors to answer to.

Everything in Pro, for life A Founding Scholar badge A direct line to the maker

About three years of a yearly plan, and then nothing more.

Unlimited documents and AI chat with page citations
A weekly research Loop: what changed in your field, in your inbox
3 Telescope analyses a month
Citations, manuscripts, and peer review in one workspace
Zotero and Mendeley sync
Plagiarism checks before you submit

Limited to 100 founding seats All 100 founding seats are claimed. Thank you.

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Pro and Lab subscriptions are currently available in India, priced in Indian Rupees.

Everywhere else, the Founding Scholar edition above is open in US dollars, and every workspace still starts with a free 3-day Pro trial. Trials are available worldwide.

For teams & institutions

When it is more than one desk.

For a research group

Lab

₹4,499 /month

One flat plan for a PI and four researchers. Everything in Pro, shared.

5 seats (1 PI + 4 researchers)
3,000 AI messages a day
Unlimited plagiarism checks
10 Telescope analyses a month
Frontier AI model
Shared workspaces and supervisor review

Start Lab

For departments & institutions

Campus

Tailored to your institution

Lab, scaled to your institution with seats, billing, and support shaped around how your team actually works.

Seats scaled to your department
Central billing and purchase orders
Onboarding and training for your team
Priority support with a direct line

hello@alfredscholar.com

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FAQ

Common questions.

Every workspace starts with a 3-day Pro trial. No credit card required, and nothing is charged unless you choose to continue. After the trial, choose Pro or Lab to keep your plan-limited features.

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

Founding Scholar is a one-time payment of ₹26,999 that gives you Pro for life, with no recurring bill. It is limited to the first 100 scholars, each with a numbered edition. By lifetime we mean the lifetime of the product, not your lifetime: as long as Alfred Scholar exists, your Pro access stays active and never expires. It funds a calm, independent workspace built without investors to answer to.

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.

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