More Headroom for Everyone:
An Update on Our Free Tier

What just got more generous

Four changes land for every account on Scholar7, starting today:

1. PDF Page Limit: 35 pages (was 25). Most full conference papers now fit without truncation, including appendices that used to get clipped.
2. Figure Processing Limit: 15 figures (was 10). More of your paper's visual reasoning (architecture diagrams, ablation plots, qualitative examples) is now available to the review agent when it scores your work.
3. Review Rank is now free to unlock for every paper where a ranking is available. Previously this was a 1-credit action. We're running it as an open campaign: every available calibrated rank is yours to see, on the house. If we ever need to revisit that, we'll tell you here first.
4. Correctness Check now starts with 3 free runs per email (was 1 credit per run). After the third one, it goes back to 1 credit, and shared-by-email rules apply just like the other free quotas.

You can see all of this on your Profile page. The "Your Entitlements" panel now reads the new values directly from our central configuration, so they won't drift from what the platform actually enforces.

What stays free for every account

Everything on this list is included with your account, shared per email, with no card required:

• 3 free reviews by venue-specific review agents (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, ACL, EMNLP, CVPR, and more).
• 5 free reference checks: citation existence, match quality, and intent.
• 3 free idea checks: the closest accepted papers to your idea, mapped against the current landscape.
• 3 free rebuttal drafts with Rebutly, our reviewer-comment-to-response tool.
• 3 free correctness checks: claim verification and error discovery for your paper, before any credit is spent.
• Review Rank, free to unlock for every paper where a calibrated rank is available.

That is a real amount of verification work to do before credits ever enter the picture, and we want you to use it.

The one change we want to be transparent about

Until recently, the three free reviews refilled every month. As of this update, they are a one-time welcome per email. Once you have used your three, additional reviews cost 1 credit each, and credits never expire.

We don't want to dress this up. Reviews are the most computationally expensive thing we run on this platform: large models, long contexts, careful scoring against past venue outcomes, and a fair bit of post-processing. A monthly refill at our current scale costs us more than what credit purchases on those same accounts bring in. Making the welcome quota one-time is what lets us keep the lights on without raising prices for the people who do pay, and without pulling back on the other free tools.

The Scholar7 founding team is currently sustaining the service in combination with end-user payments and payments from business users. As we secure funding to scale our infrastructure and research, we will be more than happy to make the free tier more generous again, and we will tell you here when that happens.

If your email already had unused free reviews when we made this change, you kept them. We didn't take a quota you had not yet spent.

Why this matters: a verification layer for science

Scholar7 exists to give scientific work a structured, transparent verification layer, one that scales with the volume of research being produced and stays honest about what it can and cannot judge. Review agents, reference checks, idea checks, correctness checks, Rebutly, and OpenPrint are all in service of that mission.

A more generous free tier helps more of you try the system, and it helps us learn faster. That is why the bigger entitlements land in this update first, and the one trade-off comes alongside rather than later.

If you'd like to help us push this further

If you, your lab, your conference, your publisher, or your funder would like the free tier to be bigger again (more reviews, broader venue coverage, deeper checks), we would love to talk. Every partnership we close translates fairly directly into more generosity for individual users.

You can reach the team at partner@scholar7.com. Whether it is sponsorship, a research collaboration, a paid tier for your organization, or a feature you wish we built, that inbox is read by the founders.

We've got the next decade of scientific verification to build. Thank you for trusting us with your work. We will keep earning it.

With gratitude, the Scholar7 team.