Pricing
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
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
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.”
Lora Chen
Researcher · University of Hong Kong
“It was as if a human editor had reviewed and replied.”

Terry Grimmond
Consultant Microbiologist · Grimmond & Associates
“Roughly 1/30th of the cost of a true outside, independent reviewer.”

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.
Full Review 5-Pack
$139
Save ~29%
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
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.
For individual authors, no: you buy reviews or review packs, not a monthly subscription. 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. Labs and research programs can start with a paid Lab Pilot: pooled review credits, a shared workspace, invoice or PO support, and a renewal decision after real usage is clear.
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, a Dossier credit is added to your Manusights account. You then upload the manuscript you want, redeem the credit on it, and the Dossier generates for that manuscript in about 1-2 hours. It does not run automatically.
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.