PDFCite

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#27 of 27

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Score

5.5

The facts below are what the maker publishes about PDFCite, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.

Plans and prices

From PDFCite's own pricing page, checked 8 Oct 2026.

Plan	Price	What it gives you
Free	Free	Unlimited citations and graph features · AI features free with generous limits · No signup required to start

Each one read from PDFCite's own pages, with the date it was checked.

Accounts: The extension can be started without signup, but AI features require a free account; the site says no credit card is required.checked 8 Oct 2026
Citation graphs: The product visualizes citation networks to help users discover connected papers and explore a research field.checked 8 Oct 2026
Citation tools: PDFCite generates citations, previews references, and can fetch full-text PDFs from Open Access repositories.checked 8 Oct 2026
Document handling: PDFCite says it works with online PDFs without uploads and caches documents locally on the user's disk.checked 8 Oct 2026
Integrations: The site names PubMed, arXiv, Semantic Scholar, and Google Scholar as libraries it works with.checked 8 Oct 2026
Limits: The site describes AI features as free with generous limits and says users can upgrade if they need more; it does not state specific quotas on the page.checked 8 Oct 2026
PDF chat: PDFCite provides AI answers about documents with clickable citations that highlight the exact source passage.checked 8 Oct 2026
Privacy: The site says documents stay on the user's device and AI requests pass through its gateway without PDFCite accessing the content.checked 8 Oct 2026
Visual analysis: Users can snip diagrams, tables, charts, or math equations from the screen for AI explanations.checked 8 Oct 2026

Browser availability: The site offers installation for Chrome and says PDFCite is also available for Firefox.checked 8 Oct 2026