Back to products
Open Paper

Open Paper

AI-native workbench for understanding papers

Website openpaper.ai
Overview

What it is

Open Paper gives you a single place to read, annotate, and understand papers with the help of AI. Each AI response is grounded in citation, giving you info you can actually trust. We're building the fastest way to understand research.

Intent

I need it when

Generate audio summaries of papers for passive learning

Open Paper offers weekly audio overviews (5 per week on Base, 100 on Researcher plan) allowing researchers to consume paper summaries in audio format while multitasking.

Organize and annotate research papers efficiently with AI assistance

Open Paper provides a dedicated platform for uploading, storing, and annotating papers with AI-powered chat and audio overviews. Users can create projects, maintain annotations, and access papers through a research-specific interface designed to reduce time spent managing papers.

Collaborate with research teams on paper analysis and insights

Open Paper is building enhanced collaboration features for sharing annotations, insights, and papers with research teams. Teams plan (coming soon) will support unlimited paper uploads and 500 projects for organizational research workflows.

Understand complex research papers without hallucinations or data privacy concerns

Open Paper emphasizes grounded citations and transparent reasoning in its AI copilot, avoiding hallucinations. Data stays within the platform rather than being sent to external services, addressing privacy concerns researchers face with generic AI assistants.

Build a searchable knowledge base from multiple research papers

Open Paper allows users to accumulate papers in a knowledge base (200MB free, 3GB on Researcher plan, 50GB on Teams plan) and use AI chat to query across papers, enabling researchers to synthesize insights from their collection.

Drop

Not a fit when

  • User needs unlimited paper uploads immediately; Base plan limited to 10 papers, Researcher to 500
  • User requires large knowledge base (>3GB) and cannot afford Researcher plan ($12/month)
  • User needs team collaboration features; Teams plan is coming soon with TBD pricing
  • User prefers self-hosted solutions; Open Paper prioritizes cloud-based user experience over self-hosting
  • User needs advanced data analysis beyond basic data tables; product focuses on annotation and understanding, not statistical analysis
Commercials

Pricing

USD0 - USD12 / monthly View pricing