Pricing
Choose your plan
Start free, then upgrade when you are ready to submit. One-time, no subscription.
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
$49
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
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
- Plagiarism and AI-content scan with per-match flags
- Target-journal strategy with safer backup venues
- Cover letter, significance framing, and response plan
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 really like this tool, perhaps a bit too much”
Anaëlle Denieul-Babrot
Recent PhD, Economics · INRAE, France
“Both candid and correct about the strengths and limitations of my manuscript.”
Bo Cowgill
Assistant Professor · Columbia Business School
“It was as if a human editor had reviewed and replied”
Terry Grimmond
Consultant Microbiologist · Grimmond & Associates
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
$109
Save ~26%
Three Full Reviews for your revision rounds and your next manuscript.
Full Review 5-Pack
$169
Save ~31%
Five Full Reviews. Best value for multi-round revisions or a lab's submission pipeline.
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
Plagiarism + AI-content scan
Reviewers are increasingly trained to flag AI-written prose patterns. The Dossier scans for both plagiarism and AI-content patterns with per-match details so you can rewrite the flagged sentences 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 $49 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 Plan
Pre-submission review for your whole lab.
A shared portal where every member of your lab gets senior-reviewer-grade feedback before they submit, on pooled review credits, with memory across every revision. Expensable, with invoice or PO support.
- Pooled review credits, unlimited team seats
- Memory across revisions: reviews v2 against v1
- Billed annually or monthly, card or invoice/PO
- 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 and you both 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.
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Questions
Common questions before you buy.
For the Full Review, checkout opens after the free manuscript preview is generated because the paid report is tied to a specific manuscript job. The pricing page routes users into that real upload and preview flow.
You buy reviews, not a subscription. But most manuscripts go through two or three revision rounds, and every time you re-upload a revised version we review it in light of your prior version, telling you what you addressed, what still shows up, and what is new. The 3-pack and 5-pack (24-30% off) are built for that revision arc.
Yes. When you upload a revision, the engine has your prior findings and reviews the new version against them, so you see exactly what changed across rounds, not a fresh review from scratch. Re-upload and we pick up where the last review left off.
You can start Dossier checkout from pricing or from the portal without running a free preview first. After checkout, upload the manuscript in your Manusights account and the Dossier starts for that manuscript.
Manusights uses Stripe Checkout for paid Full Review and Submission-Ready Dossier purchases. Available payment methods depend on customer location, currency, and Stripe account eligibility.
60-day money-back guarantee on the Full Review, no questions asked. Email team@manusights.com within 60 days of purchase. After 60 days, you can still request a refund through 12 months if the report did not flag at least 3 substantive issues in your manuscript. Expert Review refund terms are confirmed during quoting.
No. We diagnose what reviewers will reject (unsupported claims, weak novelty positioning, citation problems, journal-fit risk), not what reads awkwardly. For prose, tools like Grammarly, Paperpal, or Trinka are built for that. If your manuscript is scientifically sound and the only remaining issue is grammar, we're the wrong tool.
No. The diagnosis is ours; the rewriting is yours. We point out specific claims that need stronger evidence and sections that will draw reviewer pushback, but we never replace your sentences with our own.
No. We don't draft introductions, rewrite abstracts, or synthesize literature reviews. Most journals (Springer Nature, Elsevier, Wiley, Cell Press) prohibit AI as an author and require AI-use disclosure. Manusights produces analysis about your paper, not text in your paper.
Start with the free manuscript preview.
Then get the one-time Full Review when you want the complete report.