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Manusights pricing

Start with the $0 Readiness Scan, buy a $39 Full Review, or upgrade to the $99 Submission-Ready Dossier. One-time for individual authors; paid Lab Pilots are available for teams.

Free Readiness Scan

$0

About 1-2 minutes

Your first read on readiness, reviewer risk, and journal fit.

  • Submission-risk signal
  • Top blocker preview
  • Journal-fit context when a target journal is provided
  • Private manuscript upload

Full Review

$39

One-time

Typically about 30 minutes

A focused diagnostic of your highest-risk manuscript problems, with a prioritized revision plan.

  • Section-by-section manuscript analysis
  • Citation verification against live scholarly sources
  • Figure, methods, and reviewer-risk feedback
  • Prioritized revision plan delivered as a report
  • Re-upload a revision and we review it against your prior version
You'll complete payment on Stripe's secure page, then return to Manusights.
Highest value

Submission‑Ready Dossier

$99

One-time

1+ hour rigorous submission analysis

Replaces $1,000+ of pre-submission editor consulting, in one submission-ready report.

  • 4-persona simulated peer review with predicted reviewer objections
  • AI-content scan with per-passage flags
  • Target-journal strategy with safer backup venues
  • Cover letter, significance framing, and response plan
You'll complete payment on Stripe's secure page, then return to Manusights.

60-day money-back guarantee

Refundable, no questions asked.

If the Full Review does not surface issues worth fixing, email us within 60 days for a full refund. Most AI review tools are non-refundable. We are not.

I've tried a few AI review tools, but Manusights stands out, almost like having an editor by your side at all times.
LC

Lora Chen

Researcher · University of Hong Kong

It was as if a human editor had reviewed and replied.
Terry Grimmond

Terry Grimmond

Consultant Microbiologist · Grimmond & Associates

Roughly 1/30th of the cost of a true outside, independent reviewer.
M. Cary Collins

M. Cary Collins

Professor of Finance · Providence College

Quotes taken from researchers' own public posts or written feedback to us.

Save with a pack

Most papers take two or three rounds. We remember each one.

Buy reviews in a pack, and every time you re-upload a revision the engine reviews it against your prior version, telling you what you addressed, what still shows up, and what is new. No one-off AI chat remembers across your revision rounds.

Full Review 3-Pack

$89

Save ~24%

Three Full Reviews for your revision rounds and your next manuscript.

You'll complete payment on Stripe's secure page, then return to Manusights.
Best value

Full Review 5-Pack

$139

Save ~29%

Five Full Reviews. Best value for multi-round revisions or a lab's submission pipeline.

You'll complete payment on Stripe's secure page, then return to Manusights.

Reviews are redeemable whenever you are ready. Pay now, then upload in your portal. 60-day money-back guarantee.

Not sure what to expect? See real reviewed examples.

Why the Dossier costs more

Pre-submission consulting starts at $800. The Dossier is $99.

The Dossier delivers what authors typically assemble through senior mentorship, freelance scientific editors, or specialist consulting firms. In one report. In 1-2 hours.

Pre-submission editor consulting

Per manuscript, freelance editors

$800-$2,000

Full submission-strategy package

Specialist scientific editing firms

$1,500-$3,000

Submission-Ready Dossier

What the Dossier replaces, in one report

$99

Peer review, simulated

4-persona reviewer simulation

We run your manuscript through four reviewer personas (methods reviewer, domain expert, editor, statistician). Each one writes the rejection reason they would give. You see which persona will reject before you submit.

Reviewer AI-flagging

AI-content scan

Reviewers are increasingly trained to flag AI-written prose patterns. The Dossier runs an AI-content scan that flags likely AI-generated passages with per-passage details so you can rewrite them before submission.

Journal targeting

Target-journal + backup strategy

Not generic IF guidance. Based on your paper's actual claims, evidence, and methodology, we recommend a primary target with safer backup venues if it doesn't land. Includes the editorial reasoning, not just the impact factor.

Submission packaging

Cover letter, framing, response plan

Significance framing written for the editor. A reviewer-objection map so you know what to defend. Draft response-letter language for the major comments you can anticipate. The three artifacts most authors pay an editor to assemble.

Need just the revision-prioritized read? The $39 Full Review still does that. The Dossier is for authors deciding how to frame, target, and defend the manuscript before reviewers see it.

Expert Review

$1,000-$1,800 custom review

A field-matched scientist reviews the manuscript before submission. Pricing depends on manuscript length, field complexity, and turnaround requirements.

Lab Pilot

Pre-submission review for your whole lab.

A scoped pilot where your lab gets senior-reviewer-grade feedback before submission, on pooled review credits, with memory across revision rounds. Expensable, with invoice or PO support.

  • Pilot-scoped pooled review credits
  • Memory across revisions: reviews v2 against v1
  • Card, invoice, or PO support after scoping
  • Usage summary for lab administrators

Free reviews

Pay $0 by inviting a colleague, acknowledging us, or writing about us.

Three ways to earn free Full Reviews. Invite a researcher: they get 25% off their first review and you get one free. Acknowledge Manusights in a published paper and we credit two. Write a real account on LinkedIn or X and we credit one.

Considering another service?

We’ve published honest assessments of the editing and AI-review services researchers ask about most. Each page reads the service’s own public documentation, lists what it does and does not include, and is upfront about how it compares to a $39 Manusights diagnostic.

Questions

Common questions before you buy.

From this pricing page, Full Review and Submission-Ready Dossier purchases open Stripe Checkout directly. After payment, you return to Manusights, upload the manuscript in your portal, and redeem the review or Dossier credit on that manuscript. If you want to see a sample first, start with the free readiness scan.

Start with the free manuscript preview.

Then get the one-time Full Review when you want the complete report.