AcademicGPT
Verified Oct 16, 2026 ActiveUpload a research paper and question it, with answers grounded in the document and tied to the page they came from.
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Paid options from
- $10/mo
- Billing
- Monthly
Free plan gives 100 credits; Premium is $10/month for 1,000 credits and Unlimited $20/month with no credit cap, both billed through Stripe. Prices appear inside the app rather than on a separate pricing page.
Use tool ↗About AcademicGPT
AcademicGPT is a small web app for reading papers rather than writing them. You drop a PDF, it analyses that document, and answers cite the page the evidence came from instead of generalising, with canned checks such as pulling out the ethical considerations section. Onboarding asks whether you are a student, a researcher or in industry and adapts from there. The free plan carries 100 credits; Premium is $10 a month for 1,000 credits and Unlimited is $20 a month with no cap, billed through Stripe. The Stripe price identifiers date from mid-2023 and the interface has changed little since.
- Platforms
- Web
- API
- Not confirmed
- Last verified
- Oct 16, 2026
Verified sources
- Plan buttons in the app bundle served today: 'Go Premium' $10/month for 1000 credits, 'Go Unlimited' $20/month unlimited credits; free plan counter shows 100 credits (15 October 2026)academicgpt.net ↗
- Site title 'AcademicGPT | AI help for academic PDFs'; no company name or address found on the page (15 October 2026)academicgpt.net ↗
Is AcademicGPT legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Apr 24, 2023 (3 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar Squarespace Domains II LLC, looked up Sep 6, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Dec 15, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 16, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 16, 2026The site answered
- On the market since
- 2023The vendor's own material, read by us
Pros & cons of AcademicGPT
Page-level grounding is the feature that matters here: an answer you can trace back to a specific page is checkable, which is the whole point when the source is a paper you will cite. It is also plainly a small 2023-era project, with no named vendor, no API and an interface that has not moved in a while.
Pros
- Answers are grounded in the uploaded document with page-level evidence
- Free tier of 100 credits before any payment
- Unlimited tier removes the credit ceiling at $20/month
- Role-aware onboarding for students, researchers and industry
Cons
- Single-document focus, no library or cross-paper search
- No company name, address or jurisdiction anywhere on the site
- Stack and Stripe price IDs date to 2023 with little sign of active work
- No API and no export beyond the browser
Best for
- Students working through an unfamiliar paper
- Extracting method or ethics sections quickly
- Anyone who needs an answer they can trace to a page
Not for
- Literature searches across a corpus; it works one paper at a time
- Teams needing an API or shared workspace
Watch out: Page citations tell you where an answer came from, not that the answer is right; verify before quoting in your own work.
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