Jenni is an AI academic writing assistant that drafts from the papers in your own library, inserts traceable in-text citations, and checks claims and sources before you submit.
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Jenni is an AI academic writing assistant that puts a reference library, a document editor and an AI chat in one workspace. The company describes it as the place where researchers read, write and cite, with every claim traceable to its source.
The product is run by Jenni AI, Inc., a company registered in Delaware, United States. A December 2025 business profile in tech media reported that the product narrowed its focus after marketing users drifted away while students and researchers writing academic papers kept using it.
Scale figures on the site are vendor-reported: the homepage cites over 6 million academics, an average of 5.2 hours saved per paper and over 15 million papers written on Jenni.
The practical difference from a general chatbot is where the text comes from. As an AI research paper writer, Jenni is built to draft from papers you have added, attach citations as it writes, and then check whether the finished paper's claims are supported by those sources.
The core writing tool is an autocomplete that suggests the next sentence. Jenni says the suggestions are grounded in real papers and carry citations that can be traced back to the source.
Two settings change how much that matters. The autocomplete can draw exclusively from your curated library instead of generic training data, which keeps suggestions inside the literature you chose. Jenni also links each AI-suggested sentence to the exact page and paragraph in the source PDF, so a claim can be checked in one click instead of by re-reading the paper.
Reviews is a checking pass run on a finished draft. It analyzes every claim in the paper, cross-references your sources and flags issues across six categories, such as claims that are unsupported, contradicted or overstated. The Reviews page says a scan returns results in seconds, and you can accept individual suggestions, whole categories or all changes.
A typical paper in Jenni follows the order the product is designed around:
@ to point the chat at specific PDFs, apply citation filters when recency or journal quality matters, and ask for charts of findings.Jenni lists graduate students and PhD candidates, universities and research labs, academic research teams, pharma and medical writers, policy and government analysts, market research and consulting, case law research, and healthcare and clinical evidence work as its users.
| Plan | Listed price | AI Autocomplete | AI Chat | Reviews | Workflow runs | Library uploads |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/month | 10 per day | 5 messages | 3 | 3 | 10 PDFs |
| Plus | $12/month | 5,000 per month | 500 per month | 10 per month | 10 | Unlimited |
| Pro | $29/month | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
The plan comparison also sets file limits: PDFs up to 25 MB and 150 pages on Free, 100 MB and 500 pages on Plus, and 100 MB and 1,000 pages on Pro. Free exports body content only, while paid plans export all content. Plus includes 500 AI Edits per month and live chat support. Pro makes AI Edits unlimited and adds priority support.
The pricing page shows a Monthly and Annual toggle labeled "Save 60%", but the captured page does not state which billing cycle the $12 and $29 figures belong to, and prices for the other cycle were not displayed. Prices are in USD, with local currency available inside the app. No credit card is needed for the free plan, and the terms list Visa, Mastercard, American Express and PayPal as accepted payment methods.
Billing also comes up in public reviews. Recent reviews on the company's review-platform profile include reports of charges after the reviewer believed they had canceled. Others describe getting a refund after contacting support, including one reviewer who had bought an annual plan instead of a monthly one by mistake.
On the same review platform, the Jenni AI profile lists Paperpal and QuillBot among the profiles people also looked at.
No, according to the company. Jenni says it does not generate entire essays; it suggests sentences as you write, cites them and checks the draft afterwards.
Yes. The free plan costs $0 and includes 10 autocompletes per day, 5 AI Chat messages, 3 Reviews and 10 PDF uploads.
Jenni says it does not use your text, prompts, citations or uploaded files to train or fine-tune language models. Some written content still goes to its analytics provider unless you deny analytics cookies.
Jenni re-indexes citations every 48 hours, but papers can take up to 2 months to reach the academic databases it draws on.
Purchases are non-refundable unless required by law. European Union users can request a refund within 14 days of signing up, upgrading or renewing.