Plans and pricing
Built for every stage of writing, collaboration, and publishing.
From individual users to research groups and institutions, choose the Manulyx plan that fits the way you work.
Standard submission checks, reviewer-comment tracking and response-letter drafting are included on every plan, Free among them, and so are the integrations: Zotero, Mendeley, GitHub, Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini. Paid plans add capacity: more co-authors, longer compiles, more storage, longer version history and a larger AI allowance.
Prices exclude sales tax and VAT, which are added at checkout where they apply.
Plans
Free
$0
No card required
Write, compile and revise a paper, with the full publishing workflow included.
- 1 collaborator per project
- Standard submission checks
- Full revision workflow
- AI writing assistant, starter allowance
- Unlimited projects
No card required and no time limit.
Start for freeStudent
$59/year
$4.92 a month, billed yearly · save 30%
Larger collaborations, longer compiles and the writing assistant, at a student rate.
- Up to 10 collaborators
- Longer compile time
- AI writing assistant
- Room for all your projects
- 1 year of version history
For students currently enrolled at a degree-granting institution.
Get StudentAuthor
$129/year
$10.75 a month, billed yearly · save 28%
For researchers who submit, revise and resubmit.
- Unlimited collaborators
- Priority compiling
- AI writing assistant, larger allowance
- Room for every project and figure
- Unlimited version history
Research Group
$375/year
5 seats × $75 per seat, billed yearly
The bigger the group, the less each seat costs. For more than 20 seats, request an Institution proposal.
One licence for a group that writes and publishes together, managed by its coordinator.
- 5 to 20 seats (adjustable)
- Submission board
- Shared templates
- AI writing assistant, shared allowance
- Room for every member's projects
The per-seat rate falls with every seat added, up to 20.
Set up a groupInstitution
By proposal
Volume pricing from 21 seats
For departments, faculties and whole campuses.
- Everything in Research Group, with storage set per licence
- Single sign-on (SAML 2.0)
- Automatic provisioning (SCIM)
- AI writing assistant, institution-wide controls
- Purchase orders, invoicing, Net-30
From 21 seats. An evaluation is available with no card required: 30 days as standard, up to two months on request.
Request a proposalCompare every plan
Limits follow the project owner’s plan. Every co-author on a project works with the owner’s collaborator limit, compile time and version history, and the project’s files count towards the owner’s storage.
| Feature | Free | Student | Author | Research Group | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Writing together | |||||
| Collaborators per project | Owner + 1 | 10 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Projects | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Real-time editing and chat | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Track changes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Comments on the text | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Symbol palette | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Version historyCheckpoints and the full record of changes within the window. Older versions are hidden, never deleted, and return on upgrade. Current files, submissions and final versions are kept on every plan. | 30 days | 1 year | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| The publishing workflow | |||||
| Standard submission checksYour manuscript checked against the requirements journals commonly set: it compiles, title and authors, abstract and keywords, every citation resolved, complete references with DOIs, accepted figure formats at 300 dpi, no leftover TODOs. For a journal whose requirements are verified, its own rules are checked too. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reviewer comments tracked to the line | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Response-letter drafting | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Submission trackingA board showing where every paper in the group stands: journal, stage and latest decision. Each author chooses which of their papers appear on it. | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Shared templates and house stylesCoordinators publish the group's templates. Members start new papers from them, or add the house style's class and style files to a paper in progress. | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Compiling | |||||
| Compile timeoutThe maximum run time of a single compile. | 30 s | 90 s | 300 s | 300 s | 300 s |
| Queue priority | Standard | Standard | Priority | Priority | Priority |
| StorageEarlier versions of your text never count | Hundreds of papers | Plenty | More than you'll need | Plenty for each member | Set per licence |
| AI | |||||
| AI writing assistantIssues are underlined in place: check a paragraph with Alt+Enter, or turn on Check as I write. Select a passage to fix its grammar, improve, shorten, summarise or draft new text. Off by default; no change enters the manuscript until you accept it. Every plan includes a monthly allowance — a starter one on Free — pooled on a group or institution licence; Check as I write uses none of it. | Starter allowance | ✓ | Larger allowance | Shared allowance | Institution-wide controls |
| Switch it off for a projectFor journals and funders that restrict generative tools. Applies to every co-author on the project, regardless of their own setting. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Switch it off for a whole group or institutionSet by the licence coordinator for every member at once. Grammar and spelling checking, which runs within Manulyx, stays available. | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Work on your projects from Claude, ChatGPT or GeminiConnect your AI assistant to Manulyx and ask it to read, edit and compile your projects. Its edits are tracked changes by default, which you and your co-authors accept or reject, and open editors update live. Uses your own subscription with that assistant. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Switch outside AI assistants off for a projectSet by the project's owners. Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini can then neither read nor change the project, for any co-author. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Switch outside AI assistants off for a whole group or institutionSet by the licence coordinator, separately from the built-in writing assistant, so members can keep grammar and wording help while outside assistants are off. | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| References, import and export | |||||
| Reference lookup by DOI or search (Crossref) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Personal reference library, reused across projectsEach reference keeps one citation key in every document you write. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Zotero and Mendeley syncThe project keeps its own .bib file in step with your library, folder or group. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| GitHub syncPush the project to a repository and pull changes back as tracked changes. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Import an existing project (.zip) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Export everything (.zip)Working tree, history, submissions and decision letters. Re-importing the archive reproduces the project; the round trip is covered by automated tests. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Administration | |||||
| Single sign-on (SAML 2.0) | — | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Admin enrolment and de-provisioningAdd and remove people centrally: a Research Group from its coordinator page, an Institution automatically from Entra ID, Okta or any SCIM 2.0 directory. | — | — | — | Coordinator page | SCIM |
| Domain claiming, verified by DNSVerify control of your domain with a DNS TXT record, then let anyone with a confirmed address there take a seat without an invitation. | — | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Switch chat off for a whole group or institution | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audit logging and usage reportingEvery change to the licence and usage by member, exportable as CSV. | — | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Purchase orders and invoicing | — | — | — | Card or invoice | PO, wire, Net-30 |
| Support | |||||
| Help centre and support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Personalised support | — | — | — | — | ✓ |
For departments, faculties and campuses
License Manulyx for everyone at your institution under a single subscription. The email domains named on your order, such as ostimteknik.edu.tr, define who can hold a seat. Once a domain is verified by DNS, anyone with a confirmed address there can join without an invitation.
Tell us the approximate number of users and the domains to cover. We return a written proposal for named seats with volume pricing from 21, or for a licence covering the whole campus.
SAML 2.0 single sign-on with your identity provider. Automatic provisioning and de-provisioning over SCIM 2.0 from Entra ID, Okta or any compliant directory. Invitations by email, an activity log of every change to the licence, usage reports by member exportable as CSV, and an institution-wide switch for the writing assistant.
No card required: 30 days as standard, extended up to two months on request. When an evaluation ends, nothing is deleted: members move to the Free plan with every project intact, and history beyond the Free window is hidden until the licence is purchased.
Purchase orders, invoicing, wire transfer and Net-30 terms. Seats are agreed in advance, so the annual cost is fixed at signature. Request a proposal.
Frequently asked questions
What happens to my projects if I cancel a paid plan?
Your account moves to the Free plan at the end of the period already paid. Every project, file and submission remains, and the editor, compiler and publishing workflow stay available. The Free limits then apply: 30-second compiles, the Free storage allowance, one collaborator for new invitations, and a 30-day version-history window. Older versions are hidden, not deleted, and return when you upgrade again.
Do my co-authors need a paid plan?
No. Limits follow the owner of the project. Everyone you invite to a project you own works with your plan’s compile time, version history and collaborator limit, whichever plan they are on themselves.
Who is eligible for the Student plan?
Students currently enrolled at a degree-granting institution. Student subscriptions are reviewed monthly, and we may ask a subscriber to confirm enrolment. For a whole department or cohort, an Institution licence invites people at your own email domains and is priced per seat by proposal.
How does the writing assistant work?
It is included on every plan — a starter allowance on Free — and is off until you switch it on. Select a passage to fix its grammar, improve it, shorten it, summarise it or draft new text. No change enters your manuscript until you accept it, and before you do, it lists every citation, cross-reference and label the suggestion adds or removes, and names any citation key that is not in your bibliography.
A project’s owners can switch it off for everyone on that project, on any plan, for journals and funders that restrict generative tools. Every plan includes a monthly allowance, pooled across a Research Group or Institution licence, and the editor shows how much remains.
How is the Research Group plan billed?
Per seat, for 5 to 20 seats on one subscription, and the per-seat rate falls with every seat added. The coordinator adds and removes people from the group’s page. The coordinator who pays can change the seat count at any time on card billing, prorated; on an invoiced licence, ask us and we change it for you.
Can I export my work?
Yes, on every plan. Export produces a .zip of the working tree, version history, submissions and decision letters, and importing that archive into Manulyx reproduces the project.
Can my department buy centrally?
Yes. The Institution plan is invoiced and accepts purchase orders, wire transfer and Net-30 terms, and includes single sign-on, SCIM provisioning and verified domains. See For departments, faculties and campuses above.
How do renewals and cancellations work?
At checkout you choose whether the subscription renews automatically. You can change that choice or cancel at any time from your account’s billing page; a cancelled plan stays active until the end of the period already paid.