Paperguide is an AI research platform for literature reviews and PRISMA systematic reviews. Free plan; paid plans from $12 per seat/month billed annually.
Researched and fact-checked by Bartu Cavusoglu · Updated October 26, 2026
Paperguide is an AI-native platform for scientific research, literature reviews, systematic reviews, and evidence synthesis. It brings AI Search, a Reference Manager, a Research Agent, Extract Data, an AI Writer, and a Systematic Review workspace into one product, so researchers can go from a question to a cited draft without changing tools.
The company says more than 1 million researchers use it and lists a Leader badge on G2 in Reference Management. Its main design principle is traceability: claims link to the exact sentence in the source paper, and outputs are grounded in real literature rather than invented references.
The workflow has three stages. In Discover, a plain-language question to AI Search returns a synthesized answer from more than 200 million papers. In Organize, papers are saved to the Reference Manager through Zotero or Mendeley import or by DOI. In Synthesize, the Research Agent and Extract Data turn those papers into comparisons and tables.
Every saved paper is usable across search, review, extraction, and writing. Sources include PubMed, arXiv, OpenAlex, and Semantic Scholar, plus the user's own library. Click-through citations take the user to the supporting sentence, and journal signals such as SJR and SNIP appear on results.
The Research Agent explores a topic across 200M+ papers, chats with one or several PDFs, and generates a literature review of up to 50 papers after the protocol is set. Extract Data fills custom columns across selected papers, links each value to its source statement, and exports to CSV or Excel. The AI Writer drafts cited text and offers more than 1,000 citation styles.
The Systematic Review module is the newest addition. Dual review lets two reviewers screen independently with a conflict resolver, while AI only prepares cited evidence per criterion. An AI-assisted mode serves rapid, scoping, and internal reviews with a named verifier at each stage, and each review ends with a PRISMA diagram built from actual counts.
Paperguide is an AI-native platform for scientific research, literature reviews, systematic reviews, and evidence synthesis. It combines AI Search, a reference manager, a research agent, data extraction, and citation-grounded writing.
Plus is $12 per seat per month, Pro is $29, and Teams is $89, all billed annually. Enterprise pricing is custom. A Free plan is also available.
Yes. The Free plan includes 1,500 AI credits per month, limited Reference Manager and AI Searches, and Zotero and Mendeley import. Extract data tables are capped at 5 columns and 10 papers.
Yes. It supports a protocol, screening, extraction, and PRISMA reporting. Dual reviewer screening with a conflict resolver is listed on Teams and Enterprise, and review size ranges from 1,000 papers on Plus to 20,000 on Enterprise.
Yes. You can import libraries from Zotero or Mendeley, or add papers by DOI. Paperguide also searches PubMed, arXiv, OpenAlex, and Semantic Scholar.
The company states that AI-written passages are grounded in real literature and cited to it, never invented references. Each claim links to the sentence in the source paper it came from.
It offers shared workspaces with roles for editing, reviewing, or read-only access, plus an admin panel and seat management on paid plans. The Teams plan adds a dedicated support channel.
The site lists GDPR, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 as coming soon, not as completed. Buyers with compliance requirements should contact the company.