Sharly AI review (2026): is the free plan enough?
AI workspace for summarizing, comparing and citing documents
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Sharly AI report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Nov 12, 2026
Best for summarizing and comparing documents with citations
Sharly AI summarizes, compares and cites documents, and the Pro plan is $12.50 a month billed yearly for solo researchers. But the free plan's own numbers disagree between pages, and anything shared needs the Team plan.
Who Sharly AI is for
- Fits if you compare several documents and need citations
- Works for someone who keeps documents in Notion, Google Docs or Dropbox
Who Sharly AI is not for
- Tight if you stay free: 5 documents a day and 50 messages a month, if the plan card is right
- Skip it if you share work, as Pro is for one user and sharing needs Team
- Pricey if you need SSO, audit logs or private deployments, which are sales-only on Business
- Watch out: monthly-billing prices aren't visible on the pricing page
Why Sharly AI gets a 2.2
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- CValue for moneyPro is $12.50 a month billed yearly, the upper end of a category whose middle is $10. Team is $24 per seat.
- CFree plan and trialA free plan with 5 documents a day and 50 messages a month. The plan card says 5 a day, but the comparison table says 10 documents a month, so the cap is unclear.
- CFeaturesSummaries, sourced answers, cross-document comparison and citation formats. Shared workspaces and annotations need Team, and SSO and audit logs are on a sales-only Business plan.
- CEase of useNo store rating on record. You upload and connect documents and set up workspaces.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb only, with Notion, Google Docs and Dropbox.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Sharly AI's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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Sharly AI's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 7 of the 49 other AI research tools we grade, and level with 11.
It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 16 of 49) and worst on features (C, above 1).
Its paid plans start at $12.50 a month, against a middle price of $10 for the category: 25 of the 35 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 16 tools score higher and cost less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 50 AI research tools we grade, cut by the letter each got. Sharly AI’s own letter is outlined.
- CValue for moneyAbove 6 of 49, level with 29
- CFree plan and trialAbove 4 of 49, level with 31
- CFeaturesAbove 1 of 49, level with 32
- CEase of useAbove 1 of 49, level with 27
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 16 of 49, level with 31
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 40 AI research tools. Further left costs less, and higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Point at a dot to see which tool it is.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Keep Sharly AI, or make your own?
Keep it
To replace Sharly AI you would be making an AI model, which you can rent by the request but not make. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one.
That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 31 of the 49 other AI research tools grade higher. It costs $150 a year.
What you could make
- Documents: an app builder makes this well.
What you could not
- An AI model, which you can rent by the request but not make.
- A library of papers and sources to search.
- Citation records for millions of papers.
What this rests on. Sharly AI’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is Sharly AI?
Sharly AI is a web workspace for reading research documents with an AI assistant. It summarizes uploads, answers questions with sources attached, compares figures across several files, and formats citations in APA, MLA or Chicago. Team plans add shared workspaces and annotations.
Worth knowing
- The pricing page shows only yearly-billed prices; the monthly-billing prices are not visible, so the monthly cost of month-to-month billing is not confirmed.
- The free plan's limits are shown as 5 documents a day in the plan card but 10 documents a month in the comparison table, so the exact cap is unclear.
- Pro is for one user; shared workspaces and annotations need Team, which lists up to 100 seats.
- SSO / SAML, audit logs and private deployments are on the sales-only Business plan.
Key features
- Summaries and key insights
- Uploaded documents get an automatic summary, topics and highlights. PDF, DOCX, PPTX and Notion exports are listed as supported formats.
- Sourced answers
- Answers point back to the pages of the uploaded files they came from, and a docs-only mode restricts the assistant to your documents.
- Cross-document comparison
- Key metrics from several documents can be lined up in a table, with matches, conflicts and missing data flagged.
- Citation formats
- Citations can be switched between APA, MLA and Chicago styles. The comparison table lists a citation format switcher as a paid-plan feature.
- Team annotations
- The Team plan adds shared workspaces, annotations, and citation history for groups working across the same documents.
Sharly AI pricing
As of Nov 12, 2026, Sharly AI has a free plan, and paid plans start at $12.5 per month, billed yearly.
- Starts at
- $12.5 per month, billed yearly
- Free plan
- One user, 5 documents a day, fast answers and a 10k context length.
- Free trial
- None listed
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | One user with instant summaries and AI answers, 5 documents a day, PDF, DOCX and Notion uploads, 50 messages a month. |
| Pro | $12.5per month, billed yearly | For solo researchers: unlimited uploads, 1,000 messages a month, reasoning capabilities, a 50k context length, and a stated no-training-on-your-data policy. |
| Team | $24per seat / month, billed yearly | Up to 100 seats, unlimited documents and chats, team annotations, knowledge retention, semantic extraction, and analytics with citation history. |
| Business | Custom | Unlimited seats, admin dashboard with role-based access, version history and audit logs, SSO / SAML, and private deployments. Sold through sales. |
Read from sharly.ai on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Sharly AI before you buy.
Ways to pay less
- Annual discount20% off with yearly billing
The pricing page marks the Yearly option as 20% off; the prices shown are the yearly-billed ones.
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Common questions
Does Sharly AI have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Sharly AI is listed for Web.
Does Sharly AI have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Sharly AI is listed for Web.
Is Sharly AI open source?
Sharly AI is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Nov 12, 2026.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026.