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3-day trial on signup
- ✓6 structural signals (basic preview)
- ✓AI Advisor — basic institution chat
- ✓Discover research-active institutions globally
- ✓Basic researcher profiles
- ✓NIRF rankings
- ✓Compare — up to 3 comparisons
- ✓Bibliometrics — 3 analyses, Overview tab only
- ✓Idea Generation — 3 basic idea runs
- ✓Novelty Check — 5 checks
- ✓Shortlist institutions
3 Months
$3/mo
renews every 3 months · cancel anytime
10 analyses · 10 comparisons · 5 deep-dives · 5 ideas · 5 novelty checks/mo
- ✓All 13 research signals — structural, funding & trajectory
- ✓AI Advisor — personalised shortlist + application verdict
- ✓Full researcher profiles — journal tiers (Q1–Q4), ABDC & CORE
- ✓Research Fit — match your interest to faculty publication topics
- ✓Institution Intelligence deep-dives
- ✓Institution & program comparison
- ✓Bibliometrics — all 6 tabs: authors, themes, geographic, citation networks
- ✓Idea Generation — full mode with gap analysis
- ✓Novelty checks with publication readiness guidance
- ✓Conference & Journal Finder with AI enrichment
- ✓Projects & Dissemination tracker with CSV export
- ✓My Application Plan — track decisions with AI verdict
6 Months
$2.50/mo
renews every 6 months · ideal for application season
20 analyses · 25 comparisons · 10 deep-dives · 10 ideas · 10 novelty checks/mo
- ✓All 13 research signals — structural, funding & trajectory
- ✓AI Advisor — personalised shortlist + application verdict
- ✓Full researcher profiles — journal tiers (Q1–Q4), ABDC & CORE
- ✓Research Fit — match your interest to faculty publication topics
- ✓Institution Intelligence deep-dives
- ✓Institution & program comparison
- ✓Bibliometrics — all 6 tabs: authors, themes, geographic, citation networks
- ✓Idea Generation — full mode with gap analysis
- ✓Novelty checks with publication readiness guidance
- ✓Conference & Journal Finder with AI enrichment
- ✓Projects & Dissemination tracker with CSV export
- ✓My Application Plan — track decisions with AI verdict
12 Months
$2/mo
renews every 12 months · best value
Unlimited analyses & comparisons · 15 deep-dives, ideas & novelty/mo
- ✓All 13 research signals — structural, funding & trajectory
- ✓AI Advisor — personalised shortlist + application verdict
- ✓Full researcher profiles — journal tiers (Q1–Q4), ABDC & CORE
- ✓Research Fit — match your interest to faculty publication topics
- ✓Institution Intelligence deep-dives
- ✓Institution & program comparison
- ✓Bibliometrics — all 6 tabs: authors, themes, geographic, citation networks
- ✓Idea Generation — full mode with gap analysis
- ✓Novelty checks with publication readiness guidance
- ✓Conference & Journal Finder with AI enrichment
- ✓Projects & Dissemination tracker with CSV export
- ✓My Application Plan — track decisions with AI verdict
International prices in USD · Stripe · Auto-renews · Cancel anytime · 3-day free trial on signup
Honest question, honest answer
The data is open — so why do we charge?
The platform has a free tier. Subscribing unlocks premium features. Here's what your subscription actually funds:
Collecting from 4 sources in parallel
Querying multiple open scholarly databases in parallel — handling rate limits, authentication, and API quirks for each.
Deduplication & cleaning
The same paper often appears across multiple sources with different metadata. Merging them correctly is non-trivial work.
Computing 13 research signals
Each signal involves custom statistical logic — authorship patterns, funding presence, thematic continuity, and more.
Infrastructure & reliability
Keeping the pipeline fast, the API up, and results accurate for every search — around the clock.
Curating quality data
Journal tiers (Q1–Q4, ABDC, CORE), NIRF ranking data, and conference rankings require ongoing curation.
No bias.
No sponsored results, no institutional partnerships that influence what you see. Fees keep the platform independent.
Questions? info@openrlens.com