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Chat with your documents and manage research references
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Petal is an AI document analysis and research workspace. Users upload documents to build a personal knowledge base, then chat with them to get fully sourced answers, with annotations, comments and shareable links for collaboration.
You upload papers and files, Petal extracts metadata and indexes them, and the AI answers questions grounded in those sources. Plans meter usage with AI credits.
Academics, corporate R&D and industry experts. The vendor cites 20,000+ users including researchers at MIT, Caltech, UT Austin, Intuit and Indeed.
Free is $0 with 1 GB storage and 400 AI credits. Plus is $2.55 per month billed annually, Advanced is $8.49 per month billed annually with 1,200 credits and multi-doc chat, and Premium is $25.49 per month with 2,000 credits. Edu accounts get discounts.
Anara and Afforai are AI research assistants with document chat, and Semantic Scholar is a paper discovery engine. Petal combines reference management and document chat.
Pricing Model
FREEMIUM
Starting Price
$3/mo
Free Options
Free version
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Compliance Standards
SOC 2 Type II
EnterpriseISO 27001
EnterpriseGDPR Compliant
GlobalHIPAA
HealthcarePCI DSS
FinanceCCPA
PrivacyFedRAMP
GovernmentCSA STAR
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