Scholarly itself is free to use — you bring the model keys and pay your providers directly, at cost. No markup, no middleman.
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All plans include both review modes — general literature review and concept evolution tracking.
LLM APIs bill by usage and prices change constantly. By plugging in your own provider keys you pay exactly what each model costs — no subscription markup — and keep full control over which providers and models you use.
It depends on your providers and panel size. Budget models like DeepSeek or gpt-4o-mini cost a few cents per review; frontier models more. Start with 2–3 cheap models in your panel to keep costs down.
Any OpenAI-compatible chat-completions endpoint — DeepSeek, OpenRouter, Groq, and others. Configure them in Settings with a base URL, model name, and API key.
Keys are stored server-side in the application database, masked in all API responses, and only ever sent to the provider they belong to. See our security docs for details.