Subscription Tiers and Pricing

AcaTrove has four public plan paths: Free, Plus, Lab Add-On, and Institution. Free should be useful enough to build research habits. Plus and Lab monetize sustained AI usage, capacity, collaboration, MCP connector beta, and shared workspace needs.

Free

$0

Included features:

• 3 research projects.
• 1 collaborator per project.
• Up to 5 saved publications.
• Up to 5 stored documents.
• Grant tracker and Career Center access.
• AI-assisted project creation and publication import within limits.
• Limited AI assistant trial usage.
• Basic exports.

AcaTrove Plus

$14/month or $99/year

Included features:

• Everything in Free.
• More projects, documents, and publications.
• More collaborators per project.
• Sustained built-in AI assistant usage subject to fair-use limits.
• Paper chat and multi-document synthesis.
• Career and grant AI outputs.
• MCP connector beta.
• Advanced exports.

Lab Add-On

+$10/month or +$99/year

Included features:

• One shared lab workspace.
• Included lab collaborators.
• Shared projects, papers, tasks, and deadlines.
• Lab dashboard and activity history.
• Publication and grant pipeline coordination.
• Equipment, inventory, safety, and personnel tracking where enabled.
• Shared AI capacity for lab workflows.
• Owner-paid model so collaborators do not all need paid accounts.

Institution

Custom

Institution is for managed department, center, library, or university rollouts. It can include SSO, managed users, audit logs, retention controls, security and procurement documentation, and dedicated onboarding.

Downgrading

If you downgrade or cancel, existing data should be retained, but access to paid features may be paused or limited. Export paths should remain available for core research records.