Citavi Pricing Overview

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Citavi Pricing Key Insights

Last updated on Apr 09, 2026

Citavi offers 4 pricing editions, starting from $249 to $449. Citavi pricing tiers are designed to support different usage levels and team sizes. Citavi also offers a free trial. Compare the Citavi pricing table below to figure out the best fit for your needs. Some plans may require you to contact Lumivero for custom pricing.

Citavi for Windows - Business — $379 / per user

Citavi for DBServer - Business — $449 / per user

Citavi for DBServer - Academic — $289 / per user

Citavi for Windows - Academic — $249 / per user

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Citavi for Windows - Business

$379

per user

Citavi for Windows is suited to small teams that have access to a network share.

Citavi for DBServer - Business

$449

per user

Citavi for DBServer is meant for large teams.

Citavi for DBServer - Academic

$289

per user

Citavi for DBServer is meant for large teams.

Citavi for Windows - Academic

$249

per user

Citavi for Windows is suited to small teams that have access to a network share.

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Product	Price	Features
ReadCube ReadCube	Starting at $65.00Per Year	ReadCube simplifies your research life by dramatically enhancing how you discover, annotate, collaborate and cite research. Eliminate wasted hours manually wrangling information and get back to research with the ReadCube reference manager. With ReadCube across all of your devices (web, desktop & mobile), you can unlock a powerful suite of features that will streamline your research life and keep you one step ahead. Search & Download: Built-in search engines. Personalized recommendations. Related article feeds. Institutional proxy support. Web importing via browser. 1-click PDF downloads. Advanced search filters. Stay Organized: Easy importing tools from your desktop/other reference managers. Auto article meta-data matching. Full text library search. Advanced sorted & filtering. Manual & Smart Lists. #keyword tagging, labels & article ratings. Read & Annotate: Enhanced PDF viewing. Hyperlinked inline references, high-res figure browsers & auto-fetched supplements. Advanced article metrics (incl. citations, field & relative citation ratio, and Altmetric) Inline and sticky notes, highlighting and drawing tools. Text to speech tool. Share & Collaborate: Private shared collections (PDFs/references). Collaborate with teammates. Share references, PDFs, notes, tags and PDF annotations. Cite Faster: Insert references from personal / shared libraries or use built-in search engine. 8000+ citation styles supported. Customize & import your own Quick-copy of citations in bibtex, ris. Export reference list for use in third party citation tools like EndNote and Overleaf. Supports Word 2016+ Sync Across Devices: Unlimited cloud storage for your personal library. Sync your entire library including notes, lists, annotations, and highlights across all of your devices. Supports Desktop (Mac/PC), mobile (iOS/Android) and Web.
Paperpile ACADEMIC	$2.99per month (billed annually)	All features included For academic institutions, non-profits and personal use
Sciwheel Basic	$0.00	Get started for free! You will have access to all of Sciwheel's tools including access to Sciwheel website, our browser extension, citations tools for MS Word and Google Docs, and our companion mobile apps for Android and iOS. Create up to 3 projects

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Citavi Pricing Reviews

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Verified User in Higher Education

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/24/2026

"All-in-One Literature Management with Seamless Word Integration"

5/5

What do you like best about Citavi?

It’s a one-stop place for storing all my literature and organizing it by chapters and author names. I can even edit PDFs and highlight sentences to use as citations during my report writing. I also really liked the feature that lets us organize citations by keywords, because it makes it much easier to find the right citations while writing my report. It worked really well with Microsoft Word; I was able to integrate the Citavi app into the Word application for seamlessly importing my references during report writing. I used the paid version of Citavi access provided by my research group, and I think the pricing is very affordable for the features it offers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Citavi?

Sometimes it glitched while integrating with Microsoft Word. The add-on in Word didn’t work at times, and the references didn’t appear. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Citavi solving and how is that benefiting you?

It solves the huge problem of keeping all my references organized in one place. And it doesn’t just organize them—I can actually use them and cite authors directly from my Citavi references list into Word while writing a report. I can also pick citations straight from the web with the help of the Citavi Picker, add the web URL to the citation, and store everything as references in a single place.

It really, really solves the problem of giving proper citations without missing any, and I don’t have to deal with the mess of manually adding citations. It does it automatically with a single click. It saves me a lot of time and efforts to give citations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.