Academic plan

The research assistant every food scientist would dream of

Read papers faster, find the gaps, cite in your style. An institutional licence for food science and nutrition research, paid by your university or lab. Students can try it free for 30 days.

University or institutional email: 30 days of Academic, free. No credit card.

Alchemyst home: a large question box with Templates and the three focuses, Product Development, Regulatory & Compliance and Papers & Labels

Your email decides your trial

No credit card, either way.

University or institutional email

30 days of Academic

Recognised automatically at sign-up. Our list covers universities and research institutes worldwide, not only .edu.

Any other email

14 days of Professional

The full industry plan. Choose the plan that fits when the trial ends.

Domain not recognised? Write to contact@alchemyst.one and we will add it.

Built for the way you research

It works alongside you. You stay the scientist.

Paper Methodology Extractor

Upload a paper. Get its design back.

Study design, sample, key findings and limitations, pulled out in seconds, with a citation ready to paste.

Literature Gap Synthesiser

See what the studies agree on, and what nobody has tested.

Save answers as knowledge cards. Ask across them for consensus, contradictions and open questions.

Citation Formatter

Your style, one click.

Pick APA, MLA, Chicago, Vancouver or AMA in the Library's Citations menu, then copy the citations of any card.

Knowledge Library cards with Copy citations buttons and the Citations menu set to APA 7
Study Alert Feed

New research comes to you.

The Briefing follows the journals and trial registries you choose. Opt in, and every Monday an email brings the week's research, recalls and regulations.

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Work in your language

Six interface languages. Answers come in the language you write in.

English · Deutsch · Français, Español, Suomi and Srpski in beta

An answer with Copy, Word and Save to Library actions, followed by a question in German
Word downloadsDownload an answer or a whole chat as a Word file.
Alchemyst on a phone answering a question asked in German, in German
Ask in German, get GermanThe answer follows your language, not the interface.
Dark modeLight, dark or follow your system. For late nights with the literature.

One plan for research

Priced per seat. Buy one for yourself or one for everyone in the lab.

Save ~20%
Institutional licence

Academic

$15/ seat / month

Billed annually · $180 a seat a year

For a recognised university or institutional email, verified automatically at sign-up.

Start free trial

30 days free with a university email. No credit card.

  • 120 messages per day
  • Deep Analysis: 1 answer a day, 5 a month
  • Citation Formatter (APA, MLA, Chicago, Vancouver, AMA)
  • Paper Methodology Extractor
  • Literature Gap Synthesiser
Everything in Academic
  • All three focuses (Product Development, Regulatory & Compliance, Papers & Labels)
  • 120 messages per day
  • Deep Analysis: 1 answer a day, 5 a month
  • 10 research projects
  • 5 files per conversation
  • Unlimited knowledge cards
  • 1 year chat history
  • Research Brief (AI context per project)
  • Paper Methodology Extractor
  • Citation Formatter (APA, MLA, Chicago, Vancouver, AMA)
  • Literature Gap Synthesiser
  • Academic Writing Mode
  • Research Question Refiner
  • Study Alert Feed

Labs and departments

One licence for the whole group, on one invoice. Everyone works in the same Spaces.

  • Up to 50 seatsBuy online, add seats any time
  • 10% off every seatFrom 5 seats
  • More than 50?Talk to us

Every member signs in with an institutional email. Work out a team price

Annual prices are the monthly equivalent, billed once a year. Prices exclude VAT and sales tax, which are added at checkout where applicable. Prices in USD; also available in EUR, GBP and CAD.

Frequently asked questions

An institutional licence, paid by your university or lab. Students can use the 30-day trial.

Plan & trial

Academic is the Alchemyst plan for research groups and labs in food science and nutrition, as an institutional licence paid by the university or lab. It includes all three focuses, 120 messages per day, the Paper Methodology Extractor, the Literature Gap Synthesiser, the Citation Formatter and the Study Alert Feed. It is priced per seat and needs a recognised university or institutional email. Students can use the 30-day Academic trial.

Sign up with a recognised university or institutional email and you automatically get 30 days of Academic. Everyone else gets 14 days of Professional. Neither trial needs a credit card.

We check your email domain against a curated list of universities and research institutes worldwide, not only .edu addresses. If yours is missing, write to contact@alchemyst.one and we will add it.

Labs and departments can buy up to 50 Academic seats online, on one licence and one invoice. Every seat is 10% cheaper from 5 seats. Every member needs an institutional email. For more than 50 seats, write to contact@alchemyst.one. In most countries, checkout asks for your institution’s VAT or tax number.

Papers & literature

In the Papers & Labels focus you upload a paper (up to 5 files per conversation) and ask about it in plain language. The Paper Methodology Extractor returns the study design, sample, key findings and limitations, with a citation ready to paste. Answers also draw on millions of peer-reviewed papers from PubMed.

Save an answer to the Library as a knowledge card, then choose APA, MLA, Chicago, Vancouver or AMA in the Library’s Citations menu and copy the card’s citations. When an answer draws on a paper, the source is named, so you can check every claim.

It speeds up extraction and synthesis. For each paper it can pull out PICO elements, methodology and results. Across your saved cards, the Literature Gap Synthesiser shows where studies agree, where they contradict each other and what has not been studied. Protocol registration, screening decisions and PRISMA reporting stay with you.

Yes. Use it to survey the evidence, sharpen your question with the Research Question Refiner, find gaps and format citations. Academic Writing Mode frames answers for academic writing. Review and verify everything before you submit, in line with your institution’s academic integrity rules.

Briefing & languages

The Briefing brings new research, industry news and regulatory updates from the sources you follow into one place, with All, Research and Regulatory tabs. Opt in to the weekly Briefing email and every Monday you get the most important new recalls, regulations and research from your sources.

Research: clinical-trial feeds, Nature Food, npj Science of Food, Frontiers in Food Science and the NLM. Industry news: FoodNavigator, NutraIngredients, Food Safety News, Food Safety Magazine, Food Manufacture and Food Dive. Regulatory: FDA, EFSA and the UK FSA. Safety: FDA Recalls, FDA Allergen Alerts, CFIA, CDC Outbreaks, EU RASFF, Lebensmittelwarnung and the UK FSA. You choose which ones you follow.

The interface is available in English and Deutsch, with Français, Español, Suomi and Srpski in beta. Answers come in the language you write in, whatever the interface language.

Data & privacy

Yes. Uploaded documents are encrypted at rest and in transit, kept in your own environment and never used to train shared AI models or shown to other users. That includes unpublished manuscripts, confidential trial data and work under industry partnership NDAs.

Start your research with Alchemyst

University or institutional email: 30 days of Academic, free. No credit card.