# Otio

> AI research workspace for chatting across many sources

Otio is an AI research workspace for collecting sources and asking questions across all of them. It takes PDFs, web pages, YouTube videos, podcasts, audio and spreadsheets, and answers with citations to the exact page or timestamp. Every plan, including the free one, can use models from several providers and run Deep Research across your sources and the web; paid plans differ mainly in volume. It has web, desktop and iPhone apps and a Chrome extension.

- **Category:** AI Research Tools
- **Made by:** Frontdoor Labs Limited
- **Website:** https://otio.ai
- **Runs on:** Web, macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Browser extension
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 5, 2026

## Pricing

Otio has a free plan. Paid plans start at $7 per month (Lite), billed monthly or $84 per year.

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Limited AI usage with every model, 10 uploads a day, 25 MB per file and 50 MB in total, 1 space and 2 parallel chats.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | Limited AI usage with every model and Deep Research, 10 uploads a day, 50 MB of storage, 1 space and 2 parallel chats. |
| Lite | $7 per month, billed monthly; or $84 billed annually | 50 uploads a day, PDFs of up to 500 pages, 250 MB of storage, 2 spaces and 5 parallel chats. |
| Go | $18 per month, billed annually ($216); $36 billed monthly | 3 times the chats, research and uploads of Lite: 250 uploads a day, 500 MB, PDFs of up to 1,000 pages, 5 spaces and 10 parallel chats. |
| Pro | $45 per month, billed annually ($540); $90 billed monthly | 10 times the chats, research and uploads of Lite: 500 uploads a day, 1 GB of storage and PDFs of up to 2,000 pages. |
| Team | $25 per seat / month, billed yearly; $30 billed monthly | Everything in Pro with a shared workspace, central billing and user management, admin controls and priority support. Arranged through sales. |

Read from https://otio.ai/pricing on Oct 5, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Otio before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Yearly billing halves the price of Go and Pro** (Annual discount): Go is $18 a month billed annually against $36 billed monthly, and Pro is $45 against $90. The pricing page labels yearly billing as saving 50%. Source: https://otio.ai/pricing

## App Store prices by country

"Otio Lite Monthly", 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 | $7.00 | |
| United Kingdom | £7.00 | about $9.24 (32% more) |
| Germany | 7,00 € | about $7.83 (12% more) |
| Canada | $9.00 | about $6.31 (10% less) |
| Australia | $12.00 | about $8.33 (19% more) |
| India | ₹ 699 | about $7.22 (about the same) |
| Brazil | R$ 49,90 | about $9.95 (42% more) |
| Mexico | $149.00 | about $8.27 (18% more) |
| Turkey | ₺399,99 | about $8.13 (16% more) |
| Indonesia | Rp 119ribu | about $6.64 (5% less) |
| Philippines | ₱ 449.00 | about $7.13 (about the same) |
| South Africa | R149.99 | about $9.01 (29% more) |

## Key features

- **Chat across your sources:** Ask one question across everything in a workspace and get an answer cited to the exact page or timestamp. Sources include PDFs, web pages, YouTube videos, podcasts, audio and spreadsheets.
- **Many AI models on every plan:** ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Llama, DeepSeek and Moonshot models are available on all plans, with an Auto router and a side-by-side comparison of two models.
- **Deep Research:** Multi-step research across your own sources and the open web, with each step of the reasoning visible. It is included on the Free plan within its usage limits.
- **Reader and notes:** A reader view lets you highlight a passage in a source and ask about it. Notes made from a PDF or video are editable and export as Markdown.
- **Spaces:** Separate workspaces keep each project's sources, chats and outputs apart: 1 on Free, 2 on Lite and 5 on Go.
- **Outputs and delivery:** Generates documents, charts from spreadsheets and images, and can deliver results by email, Google Drive or Telegram.

## Good for

- Researchers synthesizing dozens of papers into a literature review
- Consultants, lawyers and analysts working across many client documents
- People who want several AI models under one subscription
- Learning from videos and podcasts as well as PDFs

## Worth knowing

- The Free plan allows 10 uploads a day, 25 MB per file and 50 MB in total, with 1 space and 2 parallel chats.
- The site's FAQ puts daily Free usage at about 1 to 2 deep searches, 10 premium-model chats or 50 standard chats.
- Lite costs the same on monthly and annual billing; the 50% annual saving applies to Go and Pro.
- The pricing page lists web, desktop and iPhone apps; no Android app is listed.

## Works with

Zotero, Mendeley, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Box, Telegram

**Tags:** Research, Chat assistant, Citations, AI search, AI agents, Notes

## Alternatives

- [Gemini Notebook](https://toolgpa.com/tools/notebooklm): Google's AI research assistant that answers from your own sources. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/notebooklm-vs-otio)
- [Anara](https://toolgpa.com/tools/anara): AI research assistant that cites the exact source passage. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/anara-vs-otio)
- [Humata](https://toolgpa.com/tools/humata): Document Q&A with cited answers across your uploaded files. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/humata-vs-otio)
- [ChatPDF](https://toolgpa.com/tools/chatpdf): Ask questions about PDFs and get answers with citations. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/chatpdf-vs-otio)
- [SciSpace](https://toolgpa.com/tools/scispace): AI research platform for literature review and reading papers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/otio-vs-scispace)

## Sources

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

- https://otio.ai/pricing
- https://otio.ai
- https://otio.ai/terms-conditions
- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/otio-ai-research-assistant/id6763363776

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/otio
Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).