Paperguide: An AI Research Assistant That Answers From 200M+ Papers, With Sources
If your job means reading a stack of papers or reports and citing them, this tool tries to do the finding, summarizing and citing in one place, with every claim linked to its source.
What happened
Paperguide (paperguide.ai) calls itself an AI-native platform for scientific research workflows and evidence synthesis, covering finding papers, reading them, extracting data and writing with citations. Its AI Search answers a plain-language research question from “200M+ papers,” with each claim linked to its source, and the site says results come from PubMed, arXiv, OpenAlex and Semantic Scholar plus your own library. A literature review feature drafts a cited review of up to 50 papers organized by theme after you set a protocol, and Extract Data fills columns you define across selected papers, links each value to its source and exports to CSV or Excel. For formal reviews there is a Systematic Review mode with two independent reviewers, a conflict resolver and PRISMA diagrams, and the site says that in dual review “AI never decides.” Paperguide says it is trusted by 1 million+ researchers; that is the company’s own figure, and it publishes no accuracy numbers for its screening and extraction models. Source: Paperguide home page (October 16, 2026).
Who gets it, and what it costs
- Free plan: 2,000 AI credits a month shared across the Research Agent, research reports and AI Writer, plus Chat with PDF, a literature review report, Zotero and Mendeley import, and limited AI Search and reference manager.
- Free plan limits: up to 5 columns and 10 papers per Extract Data table, and a plagiarism checker of 4,000 words a month.
- Teams: shared workspaces with role-based permissions. The site lists GDPR, SOC 2 and ISO 27001 as “coming soon.”
- Sign up: on the web at paperguide.ai, with a demo available for teams.
Free plan, then Plus at $12, Pro at $29 and Evidence at $89 per seat per month billed annually, plus custom Enterprise pricing, as listed on Paperguide’s pricing page on October 16, 2026. Which plans include Systematic Review is not stated on the page, so check before you buy.
What it means for an office team
The problem is the same in a hospital, a consulting firm or a policy team: someone has to read dozens of papers or reports, pull out the facts, and cite them correctly, and it takes days. Paperguide’s pitch is to do the first pass for you, with each answer linked to the paper it came from.
The most basic use is a research brief before a client or board meeting: ask a plain question, get a cited summary, then open each source and check it says what the answer claims. Treat the output as a draft. Wrong or missing citations are the failure to watch for, and you are the one who signs your name to the report.
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