# Anara

> AI research assistant that cites the exact source passage

Anara is an AI research assistant that works from your own library of papers and files. You upload documents or search academic databases, ask questions across one file, a folder or the whole library, and get answers that link to the exact passage they came from. A note editor suggests citations as you write, and Anara runs on the web, Mac, iPhone and iPad, with a Chrome extension for saving pages.

- **Category:** AI Research Tools
- **Made by:** Anara Labs, Inc.
- **Website:** https://anara.com
- **Runs on:** Web, macOS, iOS, Browser extension
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 5, 2026

## Pricing

Anara has a free plan. Paid plans start at $8 per seat / month, billed yearly ($10 billed monthly).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** a daily allowance of AI usage and uploads, files of up to 20 MB or 120 pages each, and the Zotero and Mendeley connectors. No credit card required.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | Limited AI usage that refreshes daily, uploads of up to 20 MB or 120 pages each, and Zotero and Mendeley connectors. |
| Plus | $8 per seat / month, billed yearly ($96); $10 billed monthly | A larger weekly usage limit, credits for extra usage, uploads of up to 100 MB or 600 pages, science database connectors and 5 collaborators per folder. |
| Pro | $16 per seat / month, billed yearly ($192); $20 billed monthly | 4x the usage of Plus, a choice of every AI model, uploads of up to 300 MB or 10,000 pages, OCR, cloud storage connectors and 50 collaborators per folder. |
| Max 5x | $80 per seat / month, billed yearly ($960); $100 billed monthly | 5x the usage of Pro, plus Deep Search, Model Council, uploads with no size or page limit and unlimited folder collaborators. |
| Max 20x | $160 per seat / month, billed yearly ($1,920); $200 billed monthly | The same features as Max 5x with 20x the usage of Pro. |
| Enterprise | Custom | SSO/SAML and SCIM provisioning, SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified security, SharePoint live sync and a shared Slack channel for support. |

Read from https://anara.com/pricing on Oct 5, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Anara before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Save 20% with yearly billing** (Annual discount): Billed yearly, Plus is $8 a seat per month against $10 billed monthly, Pro is $16 against $20 and Max 5x is $80 against $100. The pricing page labels the yearly option as a 20% saving. Source: https://anara.com/pricing

## App Store prices by country

"Pro", as each country's App Store showed it on Oct 9, 2026. These are the app's prices, not the website's.

| Country | Price | In US dollars |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | $23.99 | |
| United Kingdom | £22.99 | about $30.36 (27% more) |
| Germany | 24,99 € | about $27.95 (17% more) |
| Canada | $39.99 | about $28.04 (17% more) |
| Australia | $39.99 | about $27.77 (16% more) |
| India | ₹ 2,499 | about $25.82 (8% more) |
| Brazil | R$ 149,90 | about $29.88 (25% more) |
| Mexico | $499.00 | about $27.70 (15% more) |
| Turkey | ₺1.299,99 | about $26.41 (10% more) |
| Indonesia | Rp 499ribu | about $27.85 (16% more) |
| Philippines | ₱ 1,490.00 | about $23.65 (about the same) |
| South Africa | R499.99 | about $30.03 (25% more) |

## Key features

- **Chat across your library:** Ask questions of a single file, hundreds of files in a folder or the entire library. Anara says one conversation can work across up to 10,000 files.
- **Answers cited to the passage:** Every answer carries inline citations that open the exact passage in the source document, in numbered form or an academic citation style.
- **Agent and paper search:** The agent searches your library, the web and academic databases such as PubMed, arXiv and JSTOR, then returns a cited synthesis. It can also import files and reorganize folders on request.
- **Write and cite:** The note editor matches your writing to your library and the web to suggest citations, and builds formatted reference lists. An add-in brings the same tools into Microsoft Word.
- **File handling:** Reads PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Markdown, EPUB, images, audio and video; audio and video are transcribed automatically. OCR for scanned documents is part of Pro and above.
- **Deep Search and Model Council:** On the Max plans, Deep Search runs multi-step research across your library and the web, and Model Council puts one question to several models at once.

## Good for

- Researchers who want answers grounded in their own library of papers
- Working across hundreds of files and checking each claim against its source
- Zotero and Mendeley users, whose libraries import on every plan
- Writing with citations in a note editor or in Microsoft Word

## Worth knowing

- The Free plan's AI usage limit refreshes daily, and each upload is capped at 20 MB or 120 pages.
- Choosing a model, OCR and the Google Drive, Notion and OneDrive connectors need Pro; Deep Search and Model Council need Max.
- The pricing page's scripts show the prices recorded here to visitors without a paid plan, while its initial HTML lists an earlier, higher set (Plus $10, Pro $20, billed yearly).
- The desktop app is for Mac only and there is no Android app. Anara's FAQ says it does not currently offer a student discount.

## Works with

Zotero, Mendeley, Google Drive, Notion, OneDrive, Dropbox, Slack, Microsoft Word

**Tags:** Research, AI search, Citations, Chat assistant, AI agents, Web clipper

## Alternatives

- [SciSpace](https://toolgpa.com/tools/scispace): AI research platform for literature review and reading papers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/anara-vs-scispace)
- [Elicit](https://toolgpa.com/tools/elicit): AI research assistant for literature search and systematic reviews. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/anara-vs-elicit)
- [Paperguide](https://toolgpa.com/tools/paperguide): AI research platform for literature and systematic reviews. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/anara-vs-paperguide)
- [Gemini Notebook](https://toolgpa.com/tools/notebooklm): Google's AI research assistant that answers from your own sources. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/anara-vs-notebooklm)
- [ChatPDF](https://toolgpa.com/tools/chatpdf): Ask questions about PDFs and get answers with citations. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/anara-vs-chatpdf)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 5, 2026:

- https://anara.com/pricing
- https://anara.com
- https://anara.com/product
- https://anara.com/faqs
- https://anara.com/download
- https://anara.com/updates/usage-limits
- https://anara.com/updates/ios
- https://support.anara.com/en/articles/14473109-anara-plans-and-what-s-included
- https://support.anara.com/en/articles/16347558-choosing-between-max-5x-and-max-20x
- https://support.anara.com/en/articles/14473009-where-can-i-access-anara
- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/anara/id6800030182

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