One dollar under scite.ai’s individual plan, and cheaper than a single freelance reference-verification pass at 2026 EFA rates. The free tier proves the mechanism on your next manuscript — the paid tier is for revising the same paper five times, and the next one, and the one after that.
Prove the mechanism on your next manuscript.
For serial submitters revising the same paper five times.
Free, thorough, and takes ninety minutes per sixty-reference manuscript. Easy to miss a retraction issued after your last PDF download.
$80–$250 per manuscript at 2026 EFA rates ($31–$45/hr). Excellent quality, but a per-manuscript cost that recurs on every revision.
$19/mo flat. Covers every revision of every manuscript in your queue, produces a submission-portal-ready audit PDF, and cross-checks retraction status against Crossref, OpenAlex, and Wikidata on every run.
No. Retraction Watch coverage inside Crossref is imperfect and some retractions are indexed with a delay of days to weeks. Cite Trail is a strong sieve; it is not a proof of cleanliness.
No. When a mismatch is found, we show you the per-field delta and let you decide. Blindly overwriting a citation in your file is exactly the failure mode we’re trying to prevent.
PDFs are parsed in your browser. Only the extracted References text (and optionally the Methods section, if you use the lint) is sent to the server. Your figures, results, and drafts never leave your machine.
If Cite Trail doesn’t save you time on your first month, email support and we’ll refund it. There’s no long-term commitment; cancel from the Stripe portal at any time.