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Ai Assistant

↗ papersapp.com/ai-assistant official website

Analyzes, summarizes, and answers questions about scholarly articles; enables chat with PDFs and discovery of themes/patterns/research-gaps across reference se…

toolPricing checked daily
Agentery value verdictBelow the comparable medianfrom $10/mo
Observed entry price$10/molowest observed monthly
Billing modelpaid plans
Pricing observed26 Oct 2026latest priced read of the page
Website liveness26 Oct 2026alive · separate from pricing

What it does

The specific capability behind this listing, and where to get it.

Analyzes, summarizes, and answers questions about scholarly articles; enables chat with PDFs and discovery of themes/patterns/research-gaps across reference sets

PDFs/scholarly articles in the user's library, natural language queries/questions → Contextual answers with highlighted source references in the PDF, search results, discovered themes and insights
DimensionsSmartCite for WordSmartCite for Google Docsautonomy: assistant

Pricing & plans

Observed public pricing for Ai Assistant, benchmarked against comparable providers. Plans, tiers, history and scenario below.

Pricing · observed daily
Essentials · market position

$10 /mo

20% below the Individual flat median. Basis: Individual flat plans in Academic Research Agent, same buyer tier and billing unit, 4 providers, USD monthly, observed 2026-10-26. Thin evidence — fewer than five comparable providers; treat as indicative. Separately, across all Individual-tier plans in the niche regardless of billing unit (11 providers): cheaper than 2 of them.
this agent · $10
$6median $12.50$25
pricing observed 2026-10-26 · page rechecked daily · source evidence retained
What should this agent charge?

The current price sits below the comparable median.

pricing recommendation
$10
$6–$25
$12.50

$10 sits below the observed Individual flat range ($10.63–$14.37) — around the 40th percentile of observed prices. It reads as a value play; make sure the margin still works.

Pricing checks returned

Why Agentery reaches that view

price_benchmark

20% below the Individual flat median.

get_provider_profile · plan history

Essentials observed 2026-10-26.

pricing recommendation

~40th percentile of comparable Individual flat plans (approximate: interpolated between the cohort’s observed quartiles, 4 providers).

confidence

thin (thin cohort); source page rechecked daily.

Interactive provider scenario

Test a different price for this plan.

Move the proposed monthly price. Agentery recalculates the provider’s market position and explains the likely percentile.

$10 / month
$6 lowestmedian $12.50$38 highest
Competitive value position. At $10/month, this plan is 20% below the Individual flat median (4 providers).
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-20%
$6–$25

Is Ai Assistant good value?

How its price compares with genuinely comparable providers.

Below the comparable median

Below the comparable median for its buyer tier.

Basis: Individual flat plans at the same billing unit (4 providers), USD monthly, pricing observed 2026-10-26. The Essentials plan ($10/mo) sits 20% below that median of $12.5. Thin evidence: fewer than five comparable providers, so treat the position as indicative. Other cohorts on this page (niche-wide tier peers, nearest products by capability) are labelled where they appear.

Observed commercial price$10/mo
Position among agent-economy servicesBelow median among Agent-economy services · 6 priced · moderate
NicheAcademic Research Agent
Price benchmarkapplicable
How it compares

Compared with Academic Research Agent

Positioned against the observed p25 / median / p75 of comparable providers at the same buyer tier and billing unit (the basis is stated with each verdict above). See the plans above for the percentile and its cohort size, and the full niche market for peers.

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Ai Assistant's local market

Nearest products by what they do — a different cohort from the buyer-tier benchmark above. Local median $12/mo (entry prices of 15 priced of 50 nearest products, any tier or billing unit) — Ai Assistant is 17% below it.

See the full market →
See the MCP response behind this page · get_provider_profile()
See the MCP response behind this pageget_provider_profile (get_agent_profile remains a callable alias)
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  "agent_id": "ai_assistant",
  "name": "Ai Assistant",
  "url": "https://papersapp.com/ai-assistant",
  "logo": "https://agentery.com/logos/CP-AYHTGS-256.png",
  "niche": "academic-research-agent",
  "category": "research-knowledge-work",
  "short_summary": "Analyzes, summarizes, and answers questions about scholarly articles; enables chat with PDFs and discovery of themes/patterns/research-gaps across reference se…",
  "task_performed": "Analyzes, summarizes, and answers questions about scholarly articles; enables chat with PDFs and discovery of themes/patterns/research-gaps across reference sets",
  "inputs_accepted": [
    "PDFs/scholarly articles in the user's library",
    "natural language queries/questions"
  ],
  "outputs_produced": [
    "Contextual answers with highlighted source references in the PDF",
    "search results",
    "discovered themes and insights"
  ],
  "integrations_available": [
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    "SmartCite for Google Docs"
  ],
  "protocols_or_interfaces": [],
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  "autonomy_level": "assistant",
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        "billing_verified": true
      },
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        },
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        },
        {
          "name": "Team",
          "price": "Let's talk",
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        },
        {
          "name": "Enterprise",
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        }
      ]
    },
    "summary": "From $10/mo; $7.92/mo equivalent billed annually. ReadCube offers Essentials from $10 per month or $95 per user/year, Plus at $185 per user/year, and Team and Enterprise plans by discussion.",
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        "price_annual": null
      },
      {
        "name": "Team",
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        "period": null,
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          "AI Assistant",
          "Email summaries"
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      },
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        "name": "Enterprise",
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    "source": "render+llm"
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  "trust_or_rating_signal": [
    "Access to over 150 million publications through Dimensions",
    "Security Statement and Data Protection pages"
  ],
  "evidence_quality": "high",
  "entity_type": "tool",
  "regulated_data_suitability": "enterprise security page only",
  "evidence_urls": [
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  ],
  "last_checked": "2026-10-26",
  "profile_checked": "2026-06-16",
  "price_checked": "2026-10-26",
  "how_to_connect": {
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    "install": null,
    "repository": null
  },
  "deployment": {
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    "both_offered": false,
    "hosted_endpoint": null,
    "install": null,
    "note": "No deployment evidence held — Agentery has no endpoint, install instruction or directory attribute for this listing.",
    "evidence": null
  },
  "licence": {
    "name": null,
    "note": "No named licence found in the retained page text or source attributes. A public repository alone does not establish an open-source licence.",
    "evidence": null
  },
  "evidence_checks": {
    "price": {
      "source_url": "https://about.readcube.com/pricing/",
      "last_observed_day": "2026-10-26",
      "age_days": 0,
      "verified_day": null,
      "note": "from the listing's current price record; no separate page-text verification is held"
    },
    "agent_card": {
      "status": "unknown",
      "note": "no Agent Card URL recorded for this listing"
    },
    "endpoint": {
      "status": "unknown",
      "note": "endpoint not yet checked"
    }
  },
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    },
    "note": "Change of the group's price index over the last 90 days. Call get_group_fair_price with group_id for tier and payment-model detail.",
    "page": "https://agentery.com/aepi/groups/30"
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    "probed": true,
    "alive": true,
    "endpoint_kind": "site",
    "latency_ms": 2056,
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  },
  "price_extras": {
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    "unit_cost": null
  },
  "reported_success": null,
  "feedback": "If you actually use this provider, call report_outcome with the result. Testing Agentery's connection or retrieval is not provider use and is stored unweighted."
}