Simple pricing

The desktop app is always free (it runs on your own machine). These plans cover the hosted cloud MCP.

Free

Current plan

Try the cloud bridge with your Zotero library.

$0/forever

✓ 150 MCP calls / month
✓ Search & read your Zotero library
✓ Item metadata, notes & collections
✓ PDF text extraction (read papers as text)
✓ Up to 8 tool calls per LLM turn
✗ Raw PDF file downloads
✗ Write access (create/update notes & items)

Recommended

RefBridgeMCP Pro

For real research workflows.

$2.50/month

or $20/year (save 33%)

✓ Everything in Free, plus:
✓ 2,000 MCP calls / month
✓ Write access — create notes, add items, update metadata
✓ Raw PDF file downloads (for tools that need the binary)
✓ Up to 25 tool calls per LLM turn
✓ Priority support

The desktop app (RefBridgeMCP Desktop) is 100% free and runs on your own machine — it never uses the cloud bridge, so it isn't subject to these limits.