Plans and Limits
Scholarly offers three plans: Free, Premium, and Laureate. Free gives you core study tools, daily chat/study limits, and a small set of lifetime allowances for AI creations and uploads. Premium unlocks the core paid experience with 10 AI creations each week and unlimited uploads. Laureate provides 75 creations each week and adds Frontier Boosts that upgrade Auto to Claude Sonnet 5 for your most important work.
Free
The free plan includes:
- AI chat -- 3 messages per day.
- Voice mode -- 15 minutes of voice chat per day.
- AI creations -- 1 total free AI creation, shared across every AI creation type: flashcard decks, deck-wide AI edits (Refine with AI), podcasts, video lectures, slides, mind maps, study guides, infographics, worksheets, timelines, SOPs, flowcharts, lesson plans, outlines, spreadsheets, story books, Study Packs, and Deep Research. This is a lifetime free credit and does not reset.
- Manual flashcards -- Build decks card by card in the Build Manually tab — no daily limit, no AI required.
- Studying flashcards -- Unlimited.
- PDF → flashcards -- AI generates a deck from up to 32 pages of a PDF on free — long enough for a full lecture chapter without needing to upgrade.
- Pages and notes -- Unlimited note-taking.
- Quizzes -- 5 practice questions per day.
- Practice exams -- 1 exam attempt per day.
- File uploads -- 1 total free upload, up to 8 MB. This is a lifetime free upload credit and does not reset.
- AI Meeting Notes -- Recording and transcription do not use an AI creation credit. An uploaded audio file uses one file-upload slot; a live recording does not. Creating flashcards or another artifact from the transcript uses one AI creation credit for that new artifact.
- Deep Research -- Uses the shared AI creation allowance on Free.
- AI Video Lectures -- Every Video Mode (Standard, Illustrated, Short, Math, Kids, Freestyle) is available on every plan. Length runs on Auto for free -- the AI sizes the lecture to your sources; choosing a target length is a paid upgrade. You can render at 480p (fastest) or 720p (recommended) on every plan; 1080p Full HD, watermark-free output, and MP4 downloads are paid upgrades.
- AI Podcasts -- Free episodes are up to about 15 minutes, enough for a commute listen. The length slider shows this limit with an Upgrade link; choosing a longer target is a paid feature.
- Mind Maps, Study Guides, and Infographics -- Each generates a downloadable PDF from your material or a typed prompt. Every plan can create them; they count toward your shared lifetime AI creation on Free.
- PDF document design -- Typeset PDF documents (study guides, worksheets, lesson plans, outlines, SOPs, timelines) render in a clean, professional design on every plan.
- AI Slides themes -- Every visual theme (Editorial, Vibrant, Freestyle) is available on every plan.
- Captions -- Captions on AI Podcasts and AI Video Lectures are included on every plan.
- Connected Apps -- Link Google Workspace at no extra cost. See Connected Apps.
Exporting and printing flashcard decks (Anki .apkg, PDF, or print) requires a paid plan.
Premium
Premium unlocks paid features, refreshes the AI creation allowance weekly, and removes the upload cap:
- Unlimited AI chat -- No daily message cap. Auto uses GPT 5.6 Luna with high reasoning.
- AI creations -- 10 each week, shared across every AI creation type: flashcards, deck edits, podcasts, video lectures, slides, mind maps, study guides, infographics, worksheets, timelines, SOPs, flowcharts, lesson plans, outlines, spreadsheets, story books, Study Packs, and Deep Research. The allowance resets every Monday at 00:00 UTC. Failed creations are refunded automatically.
- Voice mode -- 2 hours of voice chat per day.
- Unlimited quizzes and practice exams -- No daily question or exam cap.
- Unlimited uploads -- Up to 300 MB per file.
- PDF → flashcards up to 1,000 pages -- Generate decks from full textbooks, not just a chapter.
- 1080p video lectures -- Render AI Video Lectures in 1080p Full HD (480p and 720p are available on every plan).
- Custom video length -- Set a target lecture length (up to ~15 minutes) with the length slider. Free plans render on Auto, which sizes the lecture to your sources.
- Custom podcast length -- Set a target episode length (up to 60 minutes). Free episodes are capped at about 15 minutes.
- Watermark-free videos -- Remove the Scholarly logo from AI Video Lectures.
- Choose your AI model -- Pick a specific AI model in any create tool. Free users can browse the model picker; choosing a model is a paid feature, and paid users otherwise get the recommended model automatically.
- Unlimited research reports -- No daily research limit.
- Flashcard exports -- Export any deck to Anki
.apkg, PDF, or print. - Early access and priority support -- Get the highest support tier and earlier access to new features.
Laureate
Laureate is $99/month, billed monthly. It includes everything in Premium, plus:
- 75 AI creations each week -- A higher allowance for the same creation tools included with Premium.
- 20 creation Frontier Boosts each week -- Turn Frontier Boost on to make Auto (Laureate) use Claude Opus 5, or off to use GPT 5.6 Luna. Each boosted creation is included in the 75 total.
- Unlimited AI Chat with 20 Chat Frontier Boosts each week -- Chat boosts are separate from creation usage.
- Automatic fallback -- When the relevant boosts run out, Auto keeps working with GPT 5.6 Luna at high reasoning. Flashcards always use Luna at high reasoning and never spend a boost.
- Priority generation -- Dedicated queues provide more simultaneous processing capacity for Laureate creation work.
- Larger uploads -- Up to 1 GB per file, versus 300 MB on Premium.
- Larger PDF imports -- PDF → flashcards works on up to 3,000 pages, versus 1,000 on Premium.
- More voice mode -- 12 hours of voice chat per day, versus 2 hours on Premium.
- Priority support and early Frontier access -- Get direct billing and product help from the Scholarly team plus early access to newly launched Frontier models.
The total allowance and both Frontier Boost pools reset every Monday at 00:00 UTC. Failed work is refunded automatically. See Choosing an AI Model for the model and reasoning defaults for every feature.
Lifetime Free Credits
Lifetime credits do not reset daily. Once you use them, upgrade to Premium to keep creating or uploading.
| What | Free | Premium | Laureate |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI creations | 1 total lifetime allowance | 10 / week | 75 / week |
| Creation Frontier Boosts | -- | -- | 20 / week, included in the 75 total |
| File uploads | 1 total lifetime upload, 8 MB max | Unlimited, 300 MB max | Unlimited, 1 GB max |
The shared AI creation credit covers every AI creation type — flashcard decks, deck edits, podcasts, video lectures, slides, mind maps, study guides, infographics, worksheets, timelines, SOPs, flowcharts, lesson plans, outlines, spreadsheets, story books, Study Packs, and Deep Research. You can spend the free creation on any one of these. AI Meeting Notes recording and transcription are included separately; only a new artifact created from the transcript spends the AI creation credit.
Daily Limits
Daily limits reset at midnight UTC. These are separate from Free's lifetime AI creation/upload credits and the recurring creation allowances above.
| What | Free | Premium | Laureate |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI Chat | 3 / day | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Chat Frontier Boosts | -- | -- | 20 / week |
| Voice mode | 15 minutes / day | 2 hours / day | 12 hours / day |
| Manual flashcard decks | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Practice questions (quizzes) | 5 / day | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Practice exam attempts | 1 / day | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| PDF → flashcards | up to 32 pages per deck | up to 1,000 pages per deck | up to 3,000 pages per deck |
| AI Video Lecture quality | 480p / 720p | 480p / 720p / 1080p Full HD | 480p / 720p / 1080p Full HD |
When you hit a limit, you'll see a clear message explaining exactly what happened: whether you used a lifetime free allowance, a recurring creation allowance, or a daily limit. The Create window flags the limit upfront, and paid members can see live usage and reset timing in Settings → Billing.
Upgrading
Click Upgrade from any limit prompt, or open the Pricing page from the sidebar. Premium is available as a monthly or annual subscription; Laureate is billed monthly only. Exact prices and what each plan unlocks can vary by region — the Pricing page always shows the current terms for your account.
What the Upgrade Screen Shows You
The upgrade screen compares Free, Premium, and Laureate side by side so you can see exactly what you unlock:
- A feature-by-feature comparison.
- A toggle to switch Premium between monthly and yearly pricing; Laureate remains monthly-only.
- A clear call-to-action labeled for the action you were trying to take -- for example, "Unlock and keep studying" when you hit a study limit.
Managing Your Subscription
Access billing and subscription management from Settings → Billing. You can view your current plan, update payment methods, change between monthly and yearly, or cancel your subscription. Changes take effect at the end of the current billing period -- you keep access to your paid features until then.
See Billing and Subscriptions for a step-by-step.