The Template Library: Paper Formats, Slide Themes, and Plan Badges Explained
What Free, Pro, and Premium unlock for APA and IEEE templates, premium slide skins, and chart layouts, so you pick the right tier.
The Template Library is the fastest way to get a professional result from a cold start. But the plan badges matter. A template marked Pro or Premium in the picker is unlocked only on the matching subscription.
Free includes a curated set of base paper formats (APA 7th and MLA 9th) and two foundation slide themes. It is enough to finish a coursework assignment or a weekly progress update. The quality bar is already there. The catalog is narrower. Monthly caps on Free are deliberately concrete: 5 papers, 5 slide decks, 5 chart snapshots, 3 PDF chats, and limited runs on the writing tools (10 grammar, 10 paraphrase, 5 humanizer, 5 detector, 3 plagiarism).
Pro ($17.99/mo monthly, or $11.92/mo on annual) unlocks every slide theme, the IEEE and Chicago paper formats, every export format (PDF, PPTX, DOCX, LaTeX, PNG, SVG, CSV, XLSX), and the full chart layout library. Monthly generation caps relax dramatically across every tool. For most graduate students and faculty, Pro is the right tier because the unlocks compound. Better templates produce better drafts, which produce better revisions.
Premium ($27.99/mo monthly, or $18.58/mo on annual) is the truly unlimited tier. Unlimited papers, unlimited decks, unlimited charts, unlimited chats, unlimited grammar, paraphrase, humanizer, detector, and plagiarism runs. Pick it when you are drafting at a volume where Pro's monthly ceiling would be the bottleneck, not because you need extra 'enterprise' features.
Acadly AI plan ladder
Free, Pro, Premium — priced honestly
Start here
Free
No credit card
Enough to finish a coursework assignment without paying.
9 quotas included
- 5 Research Writer papers / month
- 5 Slide decks / month — no watermark, ever
- 5 Chart snapshots saved
- 3 PDF documents in AI Chat
- 10 Grammar checks / month (up to 800 words)
Free forever — upgrade when you hit a cap.
Researcher
Pro
or $17.99/mo on monthly
Replaces the full $90/mo single-tool stack.
9 quotas included
- 50 Research papers / month (up to 8,000 words each)
- 30 Slide decks / month
- 100 Chart snapshots saved
- 25 PDF documents in AI Chat (up to 50 MB / 300 pages)
- 100 Grammar runs / month (up to 10,000 words)
Upgrade to unlock the full monthly ceiling.
Best value
Premium
or $27.99/mo on monthly
Unlimited everything when you're writing at volume.
9 quotas included
- Everything in Pro — truly unlimited (∞ on every quota)
- Unlimited Research papers (up to 15,000 words each)
- Unlimited PDF documents in AI Chat (up to 200 MB / 1,000 pages)
- 25,000-word grammar / paraphrase runs
- 50,000-word AI Detector + Plagiarism scans
Upgrade to unlock the full monthly ceiling.
Our advice: start Free, upgrade to Pro the first time you hit a monthly cap or need one of the advanced export formats, and move to Premium only when you are reliably hitting Pro's ceiling every month.
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