# Sharly AI review (2026): is the free plan enough? > AI workspace for summarizing, comparing and citing documents Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. 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. - **Category:** AI Research Tools - **Made by:** VOX AI Inc. - **Website:** https://sharly.ai - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you stay free: 5 documents a day and 50 messages a month, if the plan card is right. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Sharly AI has a free plan, and paid plans start at $12.5 per month, billed yearly. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **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 | $12.5 per 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 | $24 per 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 https://sharly.ai/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Sharly AI before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **20% off with yearly billing** (Annual discount): The pricing page marks the Yearly option as 20% off; the prices shown are the yearly-billed ones. Source: https://sharly.ai/pricing ## 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. ## Good for - Researchers who need answers tied to the pages they came from - Analysts comparing figures across several reports - Teams that want shared annotations on documents ## 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. 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. - **Value for money: C.** Pro is $12.50 a month billed yearly, the upper end of a category whose middle is $10. Team is $24 per seat. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A 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. - **Features: C.** Summaries, 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. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You upload and connect documents and set up workspaces. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with Notion, Google Docs and Dropbox. These are ToolGPA's own grades. 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. ## Where it stands among AI research tools - 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. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-research ## Keep it, 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. - You could make: Documents: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: An AI model, which you can rent by the request but not make. - You could not: A library of papers and sources to search. - You could not: Citation records for millions of papers. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Notion, Google Docs, Dropbox **Tags:** Chat assistant, Citations, Research, AI features, Documents ## Alternatives - [ChatPDF](https://toolgpa.com/tools/chatpdf): Ask questions about PDFs and get answers with citations. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/chatpdf-vs-sharly-ai) - [Humata](https://toolgpa.com/tools/humata): Document Q&A with cited answers across your uploaded files. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/humata-vs-sharly-ai) - [AskYourPDF](https://toolgpa.com/tools/askyourpdf): Chat with PDFs and other documents and get cited answers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/askyourpdf-vs-sharly-ai) - [Paperguide](https://toolgpa.com/tools/paperguide): AI research platform for literature and systematic reviews. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/paperguide-vs-sharly-ai) - [Scholarcy](https://toolgpa.com/tools/scholarcy): Summarizes research papers into interactive flashcards. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/scholarcy-vs-sharly-ai) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://sharly.ai/pricing - https://sharly.ai/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/sharly-ai Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).