ChatAcademia is a suite of AI apps tailor-made for researchers and academics. Our goal is to help people in academia incorporate AI into their work efficiently and ethically.
What is ChatAcademia?
ChatAcademia lets academics switch between many AI models, connect to various research databases, chat with multiple research papers, helps craft compelling research questions and find research gaps in minutes and more!
AI Chat
Chat with latest AI models and connect to Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, PubMed, and Scite databases with a couple of clicks.
Research Gap Finder
Integrated with multiple databases, helps you generate compelling research questions and find research gaps in existing literature.
Paper Search
Conduct an AI-powered search simultaneously across millions of papers in multiple databases with Litmaps integration.
File Storage
Upload and store your research papers in our secure cloud storage and chat with them using AI to extract insights.
Researchers love ChatAcademia
More models. Less bills.
ChatGPT Plus, Claude Pro, and Gemini Advanced — each subscription costs $20/month. Instead of paying for three different subscriptions ($60/month), you can access all models with just ChatAcademia ($30/month).
AI meets academic needs
ChatAcademia is the only AI app that has built-in integrations with major scholarly databases such as Semantic Scholar, PubMed, Scite, Google Scholar, arXiv, ERIC, Zotero, and more.
AI Chat
AI Chat enables academics to switch between AI models, connect to research databases, chat with files, and use our RAG system to extract information from academic papers for accurate, evidence-based responses tailored to your research.
Research Gap Finder
Our AI-powered Research Gap Finder helps generate compelling research questions, checks if they've been answered in existing literature, and displays relevant papers to support your research journey.
Paper Search
Search across millions of papers in Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, PubMed, Scite, arXiv, and ERIC with AI. Use Litmaps integration generates graphs of relevant literature to enhance your literature review.
Multi-database search
Search millions of papers across Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, PubMed, and Scite in one place.
AI-powered search
AI helps search and find the most relevant results matching your query across millions of academic papers.
Time-saving search
Search across all major academic sources at once and get the most relevant results in seconds, not hours.
Our Team
We're a small self-funded team who are passionate to help academics become highly-efficient with AI apps.
Mushtaq Bilal
Co-Founder
Mushtaq Bilal is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southern Denmark's Hans Christian Andersen Center. He holds a PhD in comparative literature from Binghamton University.
He is known for developing ways of incorporating AI apps into academic writing. He has an audience of more than 225,000 on X and 60,000 on LinkedIn, where he regularly shares tips on how to become an efficient academic writer with AI apps.
He is frequently invited to give talks at leading universities in North America, Europe, and Australia.
His work has been featured in publications like Nature, Der Spiegel, and Times Higher Education.
Minh-Phuc Tran
Co-Founder
Minh-Phuc Tran is an experienced software engineer and serial software entrepreneur. He has been developing software for over a decade, ranging from mission-critical cloud services to modern AI applications.
Prior to running his startups, he held key roles as a lead engineer and a founding engineer at fast-growing startups such as Fig and Web3Auth.
In recent years, he has bootstrapped several successful software products and cultivated a sizable audience of software enthusiasts on X.
His work has been utilized by numerous companies and high-performing individuals worldwide.
Bui Trong Khanh Duy
Software Engineer
Duy Bui is a skilled software engineer specializing in AI-powered applications.
He has expertise in React Native, NextJS, Remix (React Router) and AI API integrations.
His innovative fullstack projects for researchers have demonstrated significant impact, with over 4 years of experience building products.
He brings technical depth and entrepreneurial vision to our team, focusing on creating intuitive, powerful tools for the academic community.
Pricing
Pay one subscription instead of multiple subscriptions ($60+/month) to use all AI models and features that are optimized for researchers and academics.
Monthly
Yearly
Basic
$15
Basic AI models and features at an affordable price to get started
Elite
$30
AI models and integrations tailored for researchers and academics
Ultimate
$45
Enhanced file capacity with AI models for advanced research
Want to use your own API keys?
BYOK
$10
Bring your own API keys to use with our platform for cost-effective research
Join more than 2,000 academics who have used AI to transform their academic journey.