Anara

Anara, called Unriddle until it changed its name in March 2025, is an AI research workspace from Anara Labs, a San Francisco company in Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch. Researchers build a library of papers and files, search more than 300 million papers, ask questions across one document, a folder or the whole library, and get answers that cite the exact passage they came from. It builds extraction tables from a folder of papers, with one row per paper and one cited cell per question, including PICO and GRADE columns, and drafts notes with suggested citations that export to Word, LaTeX or BibTeX in any citation style. Since September 2026 the chat agent can split a request across parallel research tasks, and the Max plans add Deep Search for multi-step research and Model Council, which poses one question to several models at once. Anara runs on the web and in Mac, iPhone and iPad apps, a Microsoft Word add-in and a Chrome extension.

Connectors bring in Zotero and Mendeley libraries on every plan. Plus adds science databases (PubMed, bioRxiv and medRxiv, ClinicalTrials.gov, the Protein Data Bank, ChEMBL and Open Targets), Benchling and Synapse, and a catalog of curated apps connected over MCP, among them Airtable, Atlassian, Linear, Hugging Face, BioRender and Zapier. Pro adds cloud and workspace apps such as Google Drive, OneDrive and Notion, plus custom MCP servers, Max adds SharePoint and X, and Enterprise adds live sync. Anara also runs its own remote MCP server, so another AI assistant can search a workspace, read sources and start Anara research, with read-only access by default and optional write permission. A separate developer API offers paper search and citation resolution, prepaid by usage: resolving citations is free for the first 5,000 calls a month, and search costs $2, $5 or $12 per 1,000 queries depending on depth.

Pricing is in US dollars per seat, with a 20% saving on yearly billing. Free costs nothing and needs no credit card. Plus is $10 a month, or $8/mo billed annually. Pro is $20 a month or $16 billed yearly, Max is $100 or $80 for five times Pro's AI usage, and a second Max tier is $200 or $160 for twenty times. Enterprise is quote-only.

Free includes limited daily AI usage and uploads up to 20 MB or 120 pages. Plus moves to a weekly allowance, uploads up to 100 MB or 600 pages and five collaborators per folder. OCR for scanned documents, figure understanding, choice of model and uploads up to 300 MB or 10,000 pages start at Pro. Deep Search and Model Council start at Max. Single sign-on with SAML and SCIM, admin controls, a HIPAA business associate agreement and a shared Slack or Teams channel are Enterprise features. Usage beyond a plan's allowance is bought as credits.

Anara suits academic researchers and life-science, medtech and regulatory teams that keep a large shared library of papers and need every answer traced to a passage. Researchers who want to see how a paper has been cited, as supporting or contrasting evidence, can look at Scite.ai. Students who want audio summaries and study aids built from their own sources can look at Gemini Notebook.

Current state Q4 2026: Anara released apps for iPhone and iPad and a Microsoft Word add-in in September 2026, then added 31 languages to the iOS app and rebuilt the chat agent to run parallel research tasks on 18 September. In August it moved to an allowance-and-credits usage system and split Max in two sizes. Anara says its SOC 2 Type II examination has finished its observation period and is in reporting, and its ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification audit is in progress.