Simple plans. Credits that work everywhere.
Subscribe to a plan and get credits every month. Spend them on AI drafting, fact-checks, searches, and compiles across all your projects. CiteDash is a subscription service: plans start at $6 a month, and creating an account is free. Plan credits never expire.
Starter
Try everything on your own thesis
$6/ month
1,000 credits / month
- Unlimited library & corpus browsing
- Unlimited projects
- Verified AI drafting + fact-checks
Pro
Full speed for the writing months
$20/ month
2,500 credits / month
- Everything in Starter
- Advanced sandbox analysis
- Priority support
Ultra
Built for systematic reviews and beyond
$99/ month
15,000 credits / month
- Everything in Pro
- Full systematic-review runs
- Early access to new tools
Credits are one shared balance you spend across every project. Most of it goes to the heavy AI work: drafting chapters and synthesizing your sources into new, cited writing. The rest covers fact-checking each generated claim against its sources, running literature and corpus searches, and compiling your finished manuscript. Reading and exploring stay free: opening papers in your library, browsing the corpus, and reviewing your own drafts never cost a credit, so you only spend when the AI produces something for you.
Refer & earn: get 500 credits every time someone signs up through your personal link and creates their first project. Your link lives on the Settings page once you’re signed in.
Which plan is right for you
Starter
1,000 credits a month. Try everything on your own thesis.
Pro
2,500 credits a month. Full speed for the writing months.
Ultra
15,000 credits a month. Built for systematic reviews and beyond.
The plans differ in credits, not in features: every plan can search, read, draft, fact-check and compile, and no plan limits how many projects you keep. Pick Starter if you are working through one thesis at a normal pace, Pro if you write most weeks or need advanced sandbox analysis, and Ultra if you are running a full systematic review, where screening hundreds of records is the bulk of the work. Moving up a plan takes effect immediately, so starting low costs you nothing.
What a credit buys
Credits meter the work that costs real money to run. These are the fixed prices:
A relevance literature search: 1 credit
One ranked sweep across your corpus plus OpenAlex, PubMed, Semantic Scholar and arXiv.
The full text of one paper: 1 credit
Fetch, parse and embed a paper so it can be quoted and verified. Charged once per paper, ever, however many times you or your project reuse it.
Compiling your thesis: 5 credits
Front matter, chapters and references built into DOCX, PDF and LaTeX in one run.
An advanced sandbox analysis: 25 credits
For analyses the built-in tests cannot express: code is authored and run against your data in an isolated sandbox. Pro and Ultra.
A generated image: 20 credits
Decorative only, such as a poster backdrop or a styled framework diagram. Image models are expensive, and CiteDash refuses to draw data.
Two things are priced by size rather than by a flat rate, because their real cost scales with how much text is involved. Drafting starts at 5 credits and grows with how much is written and how much of your library the model reads to ground it. Fact-checking starts at 1 credit per claim and grows the same way. A long chapter grounded in a large library therefore costs more than a short one, which is exactly what it costs us. Your balance and every charge against it are itemised on your billing page, so the arithmetic is always checkable.
One clarification worth making, because it is where AI tools usually mislead: the statistics themselves are computed by real code, never guessed by a language model. The plain-English interpretation written alongside each test is an AI step, and is metered like any other.
What costs nothing
Discovery and reading are unmetered on every plan. You should never hesitate to open a paper:
- Browsing and sorting the corpus, and everything already in your library.
- Opening, reading and highlighting PDFs, with sentence-level provenance.
- Looking a paper up by DOI, and following citation maps between papers.
- Unlimited projects, on every plan.
Pricing questions
How much does CiteDash AI cost?
Three plans: Starter at $6 a month, Pro at $20 a month, and Ultra at $99 a month. Yearly billing saves up to 20 percent and grants the whole year of credits upfront. There is no per-seat charge and no setup fee.
What is a credit?
A credit is the usage unit for the AI actions: drafting, fact-checking, relevance searches, full-text acquisition, sandbox analyses and thesis compiles. Reading, browsing and your library are not metered. Credits are shared across all your projects rather than allocated per project.
Do unused credits expire at the end of the month?
No. Each billing period adds its credits to your balance rather than resetting it, so anything you do not spend is still there next period while your subscription is active. A thesis is written in bursts, and the pricing should not punish a quiet month.
What happens if I run out of credits?
Metered actions stop and you are told exactly what is short. Your balance can never go negative, and nothing you have written is locked away: reading, browsing, your library, your drafts and your exports stay available. You can top up by changing plan at any time.
Can I cancel or change plan at any time?
Yes. Cancelling keeps your plan and credits running to the end of the period you have already paid for, and it is reversible until then. Upgrades take effect immediately and grant the new plan's credits on top of your current balance.
Do you offer pricing for a department or research group?
Yes, get in touch at [email protected] and describe the group. Departmental and multi-student arrangements are handled case by case rather than through a fixed enterprise tier.
Questions about pricing or access for your department? [email protected]