Paperguide
End-to-end AI research workspace: search, review, extract, write, cite.
About
Paperguide covers the research lifecycle in one workspace: academic search across 200M+ papers from PubMed, arXiv, OpenAlex, and Semantic Scholar; a Literature Review AI that screens up to 200 papers and synthesizes the top 50; data extraction tables; an AI paper writer with 1,000+ citation styles; and a native reference manager with Zotero import. Every claim is meant to trace to a cited source paper, which addresses the fabricated-reference problem of general LLMs. The free plan is generous (around 2,000 AI credits/month); Plus starts near $12/month billed annually, Pro near $29, with a 30% academic discount. Newer brand than SciSpace or Scite, so independent long-term validation is thinner.
What it can do
- Academic search over 200M+ papers
- Literature Review AI with screening tables
- Data extraction across papers
- AI Paper Writer with 1,000+ citation styles
- Native reference manager with Zotero import
- Plagiarism checker
Setup
- Sign up at paperguide.ai
- Search the literature or import references
- Run a Literature Review AI over your paper set
- Extract data into structured tables
- Draft and cite in the AI Paper Writer
Prerequisites
A free account; academic email for the 30% discount.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 7/10
Scored 7/10 (metrics tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: Founded 2024 (US); actively developed through 2026 with systematic-review and API features; Generous free plan (~2,000 AI credits/month); 30% academic discount verified on official blog; 200M+ paper corpus and review-throughput claims are provider claims. Manual review: facts checked against search sources read this session; no hands-on testing, so metrics tier. License: Proprietary SaaS.
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 6.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 8.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 5.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 6.0/10
- · Founded 2024 (US); actively developed through 2026 with systematic-review and API features
- · Generous free plan (~2,000 AI credits/month); 30% academic discount verified on official blog
- · 200M+ paper corpus and review-throughput claims are provider claims
- · manual review: facts checked against search sources read this session; no hands-on testing, so metrics tier
Sources
Every fact above was checked against these sources. Where a claim comes from the provider and couldn't be independently verified, the text says so.