Frequently asked questions
Last updated May 2026
Anara is AI tailored for scientific workflows. It helps researchers in academia and industry find, understand, and synthesize the literature, then write cited work grounded in their own sources, from a thesis or paper to a regulatory filing or internal report. Every claim links back to the exact passage it came from, so the output is something you can verify and trust.
General AI tools answer from memory and can invent sources. Anara answers only from the documents you give it, plus the web and academic databases when you ask, and every claim links back to the exact passage. It is built for research: searching your entire library, synthesizing across hundreds of papers, and citing as you write, rather than open-ended chat.
Every answer includes clickable citations that point to the exact passage in your sources. Because Anara works from the documents you upload rather than from memory, it cannot fabricate references to papers you do not have, and you can verify any claim in one click.
Yes. You can ask questions across a whole folder or your entire library, not one file at a time. Anara searches everything you have and grounds its answer in the most relevant passages from across all of it.
Yes. The free plan lets you upload files, chat with them, and get cited answers, no credit card required. It includes a daily amount of AI usage. Paid plans include much larger weekly usage and more features.
Paid plans include a weekly amount of AI usage (sized so most people rarely reach it), larger file imports, more connectors, and expanded collaboration. Pro and above unlock every AI model, and the Max plans add 5x or 20x Pro's usage plus Deep Search. Compare plans on our pricing page.
Every plan includes an amount of AI usage. Chat messages, text generations in the note editor, extractions, and file imports count toward it, and more powerful models use more. A meter in the app shows your percentage used and exactly when more frees up. The Free plan refreshes daily; paid plans refresh weekly on a rolling basis.
Credits let paid plans keep going after their included usage runs out. Workspace owners and admins can add them in the app; included usage is always used first. Credits roll over month to month and expire 12 months after purchase.
Anything already running finishes, and nothing you've made is affected. New AI requests wait until your limit resets, or you can add credits (paid plans) or upgrade. Your exact reset time is always shown in the app.
Documents: PDF, Word (DOC, DOCX), PowerPoint (PPT, PPTX), Markdown, TXT, and EPUB. Images: PNG, JPG, JPEG, TIFF, BMP, and HEIC. Audio and video: MP3 and MP4. You can also save web pages and YouTube links directly to your library.
Yes. Import your Zotero or Mendeley library in one click, and connect OneDrive, Notion, or Dropbox. You can also search PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv, ClinicalTrials.gov, and a database of over 240 million academic papers from inside Anara, and export citations in any major style, including BibTeX and LaTeX.
We do not currently offer a student discount. The free plan covers a lot of research without any cost, and our paid plans are priced to stay affordable for individual students and researchers.
By default Anara selects a model for you automatically. On Pro and above you can choose between every model we offer, from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI and others. The Max plans include the most usage for running them.
Anara's interface is available in over 30 languages, including Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hindi, and Portuguese. In chat, Anara replies in the language you write in and supports more than 90 languages. You can change the interface language anytime in Settings, under Preferences.
Yes. Share folders and libraries with specific collaborators or your whole workspace, so everyone works from the same sources and the same AI context. Larger teams can add SSO, admin controls, and shared connectors on the Enterprise plan.
Your documents are encrypted in transit and at rest. We never train AI models on your data and never sell or share it with third parties, and you can delete your files at any time. Enterprise plans add SSO and SAML, SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and a HIPAA compliance path. Read more on our security page.
You can cancel anytime in Settings, then Billing, with no cancellation fee. You keep access to paid features until the end of your current billing period.
We offer a 7-day grace period from the date of your first payment. To request a refund, open Support in the app and start a live chat.
You can change your plan in Settings, then Billing. If you were charged for the wrong plan or billing cycle, contact us through in-app Support within the 7-day refund window and we will make it right.