Pricing

Simple pricing for serious research.

World-class research tools, priced so every researcher can afford them. Every workspace starts with a 3-day Pro trial; choose Pro or Lab when you are ready to continue.

Two months free with annual billing.

Founding Scholar A numbered edition of one hundred

₹14,999 $199 once

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

Pay with PayPal or an international card.

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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Or choose a yearly plan below.

Pro

For serious researchers who need more.

₹499 ₹4,999 /month /year

Billed monthly, cancel anytime ₹417/month billed annually

Start Pro

Unlimited documents
1,000 AI messages per day
Advanced AI model
Unlimited citations & manuscripts
Voice dictation in chat and editor
Bring your own AI key
1 plagiarism check/month
3 Telescope analyses/month
Weekly research Loops
Second Brain notes from your chats
All citation styles
3 peer reviewers
Zotero & Mendeley sync
Email support

Best for teams

Lab

One plan for your entire research lab.

₹2,499 ₹24,999 /month /year

Flat rate for up to 10 seats

Start Lab

Everything in Pro
3,000 AI messages per day
1 owner + 9 colleagues
Unlimited peer reviewers
Unlimited plagiarism checks
10 Telescope analyses/month
Frontier AI model
Shared workspaces
Role-based access control
Supervisor review workflow
WhatsApp priority support

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.

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FAQ

Common questions.

Every workspace starts with a 3-day Pro trial. After the trial ends, choose Pro or Lab to keep using Alfred Scholar.

Founding Scholar is a one-time payment of ₹14,999 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.

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.

Our Pro plan at ₹499/month is already priced with PhD scholars in mind. If your institution is interested in bulk Lab plans, reach out to us at hello@alfredscholar.com.

Yes. We automatically generate GST-compliant invoices for every payment. You will receive your invoice via email after each payment. For business purchases, ensure your GSTIN is entered during checkout.

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.

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

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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