Sharly AI
Verified Oct 15, 2026 ActiveChat across uploaded documents with citations back to sources
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Paid options from
- $12.50/mo
- Billing
- Monthly
Pro is $12.50 a month billed yearly (the toggle advertises 20% off against monthly billing); Team is $24 per seat a month billed yearly for up to 100 seats, and Business is custom. The free tier caps at 10 documents (5 a day) and 50 messages a month.
Use tool ↗About Sharly AI
Sharly ingests PDFs, Office files, Google Docs, Notion pages and links, then answers questions spanning the whole set with citations pointing at the source passage. A docs-only mode stops the model from filling gaps with general knowledge, and it can emit references in APA, MLA or Chicago format. Shared workspaces with role-based access, inline comments and activity logs push it toward research teams rather than individual readers.
- Platforms
- Web
- API
- Not confirmed
- Last verified
- Oct 15, 2026
Verified sources
- Pricing page: Free $0 (5 docs a day, 10 documents and 50 messages a month); Pro $12.5/month billed yearly with 1,000 messages; Team $24/month per seat billed yearly, up to 100 seats; Business custom; yearly billing 20% off (15 October 2026)sharly.ai ↗
- Footer: 'Copyright © 2026 VOX AI Inc.' (15 October 2026)sharly.ai ↗
Is Sharly AI 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
- Feb 23, 2023 (3 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar GoDaddy.com, LLC, looked up Sep 6, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Dec 21, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 15, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 15, 2026The site answered
- On the market since
- 2023The vendor's own material, read by us
- Operated by
- VOX AI Inc.Our research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of Sharly AI
Cross-document questions plus source-anchored citations are the differentiator; single-PDF chat is a commodity and NotebookLM does it free. Worth paying for only if you routinely reason over a stack of documents together and need to defend where an answer came from.
Pros
- Docs-only mode is an explicit control most competitors do not expose
- Citation output in APA/MLA/Chicago saves a manual formatting pass
- Wide input coverage: PDF, XLSX, DOCX, PPTX, Google Docs, Notion, links
- Role-based access and activity tracking on team plans
Cons
- No developer API, which rules out batch or embedded use
- Free tier stores documents for only 30 days
- The headline $12.50 requires an annual commitment; monthly is higher
- Company footprint is thin and inconsistently reported across sources
Best for
- Analysts comparing several reports or filings in one question
- Compliance and legal reviewers who need traceable answers
- Academics assembling literature with formatted citations
Not for
- Occasional single-PDF summarising, where free tools are enough
- Any automated pipeline — there is no public API
Watch out: The free plan is 50 messages a month with 5 uploads a day and 30-day retention — enough to test the interface, not enough to test it on a real project.
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