ChatAcademia

Better than ChatGPT for researchers

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?

All in one AI platform for academics

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

Trusted by more than 2,000 researchers worldwide

More models. Less bills.

All models.
One subscription.

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).

OpenAI - GPT-4o mini, GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, o1, o3-mini and o4-mini
Anthropic - Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Claude 3 Opus, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku
Gemini - Gemini 1.5 Flash, Gemini 2.0 Flash, Gemini 1.5 Pro, and Gemini 2.5 Pro
DeepSeek - DeepSeek Chat
Meta - Llama 3.3 70B and Llama 3.1 405B
xAI - Grok 2, Grok 3, and Grok 3 Mini
Mistral - Mistral 8

AI meets academic needs

AI meets
Research Databases

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

Chat with multiple AI models and databases

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

Find the research gap

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 papers across databases with AI

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

Built by academics for academics

We're a small self-funded team who are passionate to help academics become highly-efficient with AI apps.

Mushtaq Bilal

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

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

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

One subscription, all features

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

per month

Basic AI models and features at an affordable price to get started

  • Popular AI models
  • Scite.ai integration
  • Semantic Scholar integration
  • PubMed integration
  • Google Scholar integration
  • arXiv integration
  • 10,000 AI credits
  • 25 GB file storage
  • Basic PDF support
  • Microsoft Word support
Subscribe to Basic
Most Popular

Elite

$30

per month

AI models and integrations tailored for researchers and academics

  • All AI models
  • Scite.ai integration
  • Semantic Scholar integration
  • PubMed integration
  • Google Scholar integration
  • arXiv integration
  • 15,000 AI credits
  • 50 GB file storage
  • Advanced PDF support (up to 200 MB)
  • Microsoft Word support
Subscribe to Elite

Ultimate

$45

per month

Enhanced file capacity with AI models for advanced research

  • All Elite features
  • 30,000 AI credits
  • 100 GB file storage
  • Priority support
Subscribe to Ultimate

Want to use your own API keys?

BYOK

$10

per month

Bring your own API keys to use with our platform for cost-effective research

  • Popular AI models
  • Scite.ai integration
  • Semantic Scholar integration
  • PubMed integration
  • Google Scholar integration
  • arXiv integration
  • 15 GB file storage
  • Basic PDF support
  • No AI credits
  • Microsoft Word support
How to get API keys?
Subscribe to BYOK

ChatAcademia Elite is the best thing that happened to me. Its was money well spent.

Okoye

Engineer

Subscribing to this tool has been the best investment for my academic work so far.

Teodor

Doctor

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