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Integrations
The site names PubMed, arXiv, Semantic Scholar, and Google Scholar as libraries it works with.Read 8 Oct 2026 · pdfcite.com
Privacy
The site says documents stay on the user's device and AI requests pass through its gateway without PDFCite accessing the content.Read 8 Oct 2026 · pdfcite.com
Accounts
The extension can be started without signup, but AI features require a free account; the site says no credit card is required.Read 8 Oct 2026 · pdfcite.com
Browser availability
The site offers installation for Chrome and says PDFCite is also available for Firefox.Read 8 Oct 2026 · pdfcite.com
Citation graphs
The product visualizes citation networks to help users discover connected papers and explore a research field.Read 8 Oct 2026 · pdfcite.com
Citation tools
PDFCite generates citations, previews references, and can fetch full-text PDFs from Open Access repositories.Read 8 Oct 2026 · pdfcite.com
Document handling
PDFCite says it works with online PDFs without uploads and caches documents locally on the user's disk.Read 8 Oct 2026 · pdfcite.com
Limits
The site describes AI features as free with generous limits and says users can upgrade if they need more; it does not state specific quotas on the page.Read 8 Oct 2026 · pdfcite.com
PDF chat
PDFCite provides AI answers about documents with clickable citations that highlight the exact source passage.Read 8 Oct 2026 · pdfcite.com
Visual analysis
Users can snip diagrams, tables, charts, or math equations from the screen for AI explanations.Read 8 Oct 2026 · pdfcite.com

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Free Free Unlimited citations and graph features · AI features free with generous limits · No signup required to start Read 8 Oct 2026 · pdfcite.com

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