CitePlex vs Petal
CitePlex
citeplex.com
Petal
petal.orgSide by side
| Figure | CitePlex | Petal |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $6.58/mo | $2.55/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 5 | 4 |
| Spec score · AI Citation Generators | 9.0 (#2) | 7.8 (#17) |
| Spec score · Citation generators | 8.9 (#5) | 8.0 (#21) |
| Citation styles | It supports APA 7, MLA 9, Chicago 17, Turabian 9, Harvard, IEEE, AMA 11, ACS, CSE 8, ASA 7 and Bluebook 22. | The citation generator supports over 10,000 citation styles and can copy citations or export them as BibTeX or Word. |
| Support | The Pro plan includes priority support, and general policy questions can be sent to [email protected]. | The FAQ says Petal generally responds to customer support requests within 30 minutes. |
Plans
CitePlex
- FreeFree
- Pro$6.58 a month
- Team$16.58 a month
- Pro$78.96 a year
- Team$198.96 a year
In their own words
Petal
Petal is a web-based research assistant and reference manager for academic work, also available as a browser extension. Its plans include a free tier and paid options listed from $4.99/user/mo (annual). It helps users narrow literature reviews and compare studies, while providing a library for uploading and organizing PDFs with collections, metadata, and tags. AI tools offer translation, summaries, explanations, key-point extraction, suggestions for questions and search terms, and conversational assistance. Shared workspaces support group projects, co-authored papers, and reviews. The citation generator supports more than 10,000 styles and can copy citations or export them to BibTeX or Word. References can be brought in through identifiers such as DOI, PMID, ArXivID, ISBN, ISSN, and EAN, or by capturing metadata from URLs. Browser add-ins are listed for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, alongside a Word add-in for citations and bibliographies. The free plan includes 1 GB storage, one seat, three guests, 400 AI credits, two collections, and three annotations per document; citation export is not included.