AI-Writer
Verified Oct 15, 2026 ActiveAnswers and review papers built from cited scientific literature
Listed on EffectHub ·
Pricing
- Pricing model
- Paid
- Paid options from
- $29/mo
- Billing
- Monthly
Three flat tiers shown on the home page (there is no separate pricing page): Basic $29 per month or $24 per month billed $290 a year, Standard $49 or $41 ($490 a year), Power $375 or $312 ($3,750 a year). The seven-day trial needs no card and ends by itself without converting to a subscription.
Use tool ↗About AI-Writer
AI-Writer answers a question by retrieving from a corpus of open scientific papers and returning text with every claim tied back to a source, from a single answer up to a full literature review. It shows the exact paragraphs it drew on, links each reference, and exports bibliographies in APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA or BibTeX. The vendor positions traceability as the point of difference against general chatbots and their deep-research modes.
- Platforms
- Web
- API
- Not confirmed
- Last verified
- Oct 15, 2026
Verified sources
- Home page price table: Basic $29 per month or $24 billed annually ($290), Standard $49 or $41 ($490), Power $375 or $312 ($3,750); FAQ says the seven-day trial ends automatically with no subscription; the /pricing path returns 404 (15 October 2026)ai-writer.com ↗
- Positioned as 'Ask anything. Get answers backed by science. Properly cited.' — answers grounded in a corpus of over 100 million open-science papers, with source paragraphs shown, links to every source, multiple citation formats and BibTeX, up to full structured review papers; no company name or address on the page (15 October 2026)ai-writer.com ↗
Is AI-Writer 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
- Oct 28, 2015 (10 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar Cronon GmbH, looked up Sep 6, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Dec 22, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 15, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 15, 2026The site answered
Pros & cons of AI-Writer
Worth knowing that this is no longer the SEO article spinner most catalogues still describe — it now targets researchers with source-traced answers. As a citation-first writing tool it is decent; as a literature discovery tool Elicit and Consensus give you more control over the paper set.
Pros
- Shows the exact source paragraphs behind each statement, so claims are checkable
- Five citation formats plus BibTeX export
- 7-day trial needs no card and self-terminates, so no cancellation trap
- Vendor explicitly disclaims copyright over generated text
Cons
- $29/mo entry is steep next to Elicit and Consensus free tiers
- The jump to the Power tier at $375/mo is enormous with nothing in between beyond $49
- No public API found and no reference-manager integration
- No imprint, legal entity or company address published anywhere on the site
Best for
- Drafting a literature review section with references already attached
- Researchers who need BibTeX out of the box
- Checking whether a claim actually has published support before citing it
Not for
- SEO and marketing content, despite what older tool directories say
- Fields dominated by paywalled journals — the corpus is open-access literature
Watch out: The product repositioned from marketing-article generation to science-cited research, so most third-party reviews and tool listings describe a tool that no longer exists.
Alternatives to AI-Writer
AI-Writer head-to-head
Side-by-side fact sheets against the competitors our research or their makers name — pricing, platforms, API and both verdicts on one page.
Also used for
AI tools by profession
Academic Search & Literature Review is one of the jobs on these pages: