For university researchersAcademic Pricing
We offer discounted Bring Your Own Key pricing to researchers at accredited universities and research institutions.
Who qualifies
You need an active affiliation with an accredited university, institute, or research hospital, and you need to do data analysis as part of your work.
How it works
Apply with your institutional email
Tell us your institution, role, and research area. Takes about a minute. Use the email your institution issued you — that email is what we verify against.
We verify your affiliation
We check your institutional domain and public profile. Most applications are reviewed within 48 hours. Hospital, government lab, and institute domains are welcome — we review those manually.
Unlock academic pricing
We email you a code tied to the BYOK plan. Apply it at checkout and your subscription bills at $15/month — or $120 for the year — for as long as your affiliation holds.
Ready to apply?
One short form. We review within 48 hours.
Questions
The full Bring Your Own Key plan — unlimited queries against your own OpenAI API key, no markup on tokens, direct access to the team, onboarding support, and feature requests — at $15/month instead of $39.99/month, or $120 for the year instead of $399.90. You pay your model provider directly for tokens, which is usually a few dollars a month at research volumes.
Want to help shape PlotStudio for your field instead? See the Research Partner Program →