Nouswise
Verified Oct 21, 2026 ActiveAgentic search over your team's uploaded documents, answering questions only from those sources.
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Paid options from
- $19.99/mo
- Billing
- Monthly
Starter is free: unlimited projects, 100 sources, 100 MB files, about 8 activities (reports, quizzes, mind maps, decks) and 5 audio or video recaps a day. Essential $19.99/month raises that to 300 sources, 300 MB files, 25 activities and 20 recaps a day; Pro $49.99/month gives unlimited sources, 2 GB files and 120 a day; Enterprise is custom with SLA support, access management, connectors and on-premises deployment. A yearly toggle promises 17% off but the page shows no annual figures.
Use tool ↗About Nouswise
Nouswise is a research agent that answers only from the sources you load into a project: it cross-checks several of them before replying and declines to pad the answer with open-web knowledge, which is the pitch to institutions that need traceable, compliant answers. Beyond question-answering it generates reports, flashcards, quizzes, mind maps, data tables, infographics, slide decks and audio or video recaps from the same library, exposes MCP tools and an API, and can be run on-premises or in a dedicated region for organisations that cannot use the hosted service, where data sits in Europe and the United States by default. The operator is Nouswise, Inc.; no address or country is published. A free Starter plan covers 100 sources with daily activity caps; Essential is $19.99 a month and Pro $49.99.
- Platforms
- Web · API
- API
- Yes
- Last verified
- Oct 21, 2026
Verified sources
- Pricing page: Starter $0 (100 sources, 100 MB files, 8 activities and 5 recaps a day), Essential $19.99/month (300 sources, 300 MB, 25/day), Pro $49.99/month (unlimited sources, 2 GB, 120/day), Enterprise custom; yearly toggle -17% without figures; footer © 2023-2026 Nouswise, Inc. (15 October 2026)nouswise.com ↗
- Pricing FAQ: on-premises deployment available, data encrypted in transit and at rest and hosted in Europe and the United States by default, dedicated regional data centres on request; MCP tools and API documentation linked (15 October 2026)nouswise.com ↗
Is Nouswise 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
- Nov 1, 2023 (2 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar Porkbun LLC, looked up Sep 6, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Jan 13, 2027Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 21, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 21, 2026The site answered
- Operated by
- Nouswise, Inc.Our research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of Nouswise
Nouswise is positioned for teams that want answers grounded strictly in their own documents rather than the open web, with on-premises deployment and a dedicated-region option that matter to institutional buyers. The free Starter plan, 100 sources with daily caps on generated reports and recaps, is enough to evaluate the grounding before paying. The API and MCP tools make it usable as infrastructure rather than only a chat window, but the paid tiers doubled since our last read, to $19.99 and $49.99.
Pros
- Free tier covers unlimited projects and 100 sources, enough for a real evaluation
- Answers are restricted to provided sources, reducing hallucination risk
- On-premises and dedicated-region deployment for compliance-bound buyers
- API and MCP tools for embedding into other software
Cons
- Unlimited sources only unlock at the $49.99/month Pro tier
- Every tier below Enterprise caps generated activities and recaps per day
- Company address and country are not disclosed on the site
- Agentic cross-checking across sources can add latency versus a single-model answer
Best for
- Teams that need Q&A restricted strictly to their own uploaded documents
- Organizations that require on-premises deployment or data held in a chosen region
- Developers wanting to embed document search via API or MCP
Not for
- Users who want general web knowledge mixed into answers
- Document sets beyond 300 sources before paying for the $49.99 Pro tier
Watch out: Prices roughly doubled between September and October 2026 (Essential $10 to $19.99, Pro $40 to $49.99); the yearly toggle advertises 17% off without showing the annual figures.
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