Flowing
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Flowing, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Flowing's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Go | $5 a month | 1M AI tokens each month · everything in Free · Evidence Cards (10/month) · $5/ mo |
| Pro | $10 a month | 4M AI tokens each month · everything in Go · automatic Evidence Cards billed from monthly pool · $10/ mo |
| Pro+ | $30 a month | 16M AI tokens each month · strongest model options · automatic Evidence Cards billed from monthly pool · $30/ mo |
| Free | Free | 120K AI tokens each month · local PDF library and on-device indexing · unlimited manual keyword search · limited AI features · $0/ mo |
| 1M token pack | $5, paid once | 1,000,000 AI tokens · $5.00/M · $5 |
| 3M token pack | $12, paid once | 3,000,000 AI tokens · $4.00/M · $12 |
| 10M token pack | $35, paid once | 10,000,000 AI tokens · $3.50/M · $35 |
The facts
Each one read from Flowing's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- AI processing
- AI requests can send prompts, manuscript context, matched passages, and manually attached text or figures through Flowing's backend to third-party models.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Audience
- Flowing is aimed at literature reviews, thesis chapters, and long-form academic writing where citations and source fidelity matter.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Compliance limits
- The maker says published retention commitments for request bodies and model providers, a DPA, and a full sub-processor retention schedule are not yet available.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Evidence checks
- Evidence Cards mark contradiction red, direct support green, and useful qualification yellow; checks cover retrieved passages and do not guarantee completeness.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Export formats
- standardchecked 22 Sep 2026
- Integrations
- The maker's pages describe OpenAlex metadata verification for recommended works and Stripe processing for plans and prepaid token packs.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Local library
- Imported reference PDFs are stored and indexed on the user's device, and the full PDF library is not uploaded by default.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Models
- The privacy page names DeepSeek for keyword recall and Kimi (Moonshot) for Ask, polish, and figures.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Product
- Flowing is a desktop writing environment for researchers and students that grounds AI assistance in their selected reference PDFs.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Publishing tools
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Recall
- Recall surfaces relevant PDF passages as cards linked directly to the original page.checked 11 Oct 2026
- References
- Flowing provides a bibliography sidebar and lets users insert citations from their library with @.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Security
- Flowing says requests are proxied over HTTPS and that users do not add their own API keys.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support
- The maker offers help by email and through its Discord community.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Web recommendations
- Automatic web paper recommendations are off by default; keywords are sent to the recommendation service, and paragraph text is sent only if the user opts in.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Writing
- The editor supports rich text and LaTeX with a live PDF preview.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
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