Developers

One key for papers, full text and AI

Videmak is open source under the MIT licence. Videmak Cloud runs the services behind it, so your own copy or your own app works out of the box. Pay only for what you use.

Get a key Self-host GitHub

What one key gives you

Papers

Search and look up scholarly works, authors and journals from CitedEvidence Scholar.

GET /v1/oa/works

Full text and PDFs

Archived full text, XML and PDFs where a copy is available, with source and licence.

GET /v1/files/pdf/{id}

Research tools

Multi-source search, citation networks and recommendations, over MCP or JSON.

POST /v1/mcp

Reference checks

Confirm DOIs and PubMed IDs exist before they go in a reference list.

validate_citations

AI

OpenAI-compatible chat completions on DeepSeek. Works with any OpenAI SDK.

POST /v1/chat/completions

AI review

A structured peer review of a manuscript: strengths, problems by severity, a recommendation.

POST /v1/review

Word, LaTeX and PDF

Turn editor documents into .docx, PDF or a LaTeX project.

POST /v1/convert

Pay as you go

One credit is one paper or file request, the same credit as CitedEvidence Scholar. Everything else is priced in credits too, on one balance.

1,000 free credits

Every day, for papers, full text, research tools and reference checks. Back at midnight UTC.

100 credits to start

On your first key, to try AI, reviews and exports. Confirm your email to get both.

Service	Credits
Paper search and lookupsFree daily	1 per request
Full text and PDFsFree daily	1 per request
Research tools (MCP)Free daily	1 per tool call
Reference checksFree daily	1 per reference
AI input	78 per 1M tokens
AI cached input	1.56 per 1M tokens
AI output	312 per 1M tokens
AI review	10 per 1,000 words
Word, LaTeX and PDF files	1 per file

Credit packs

2,000$29.90 · $14.95 per 1,000
10,000$119 · $11.90 per 1,000
100,000$790 · $7.90 per 1,000
1,000,000$4,990 · $4.99 per 1,000

Credits you buy don't expire. Automatic top-up and per-key monthly caps are optional.

Quick start

Search papers

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $VIDEMAK_API_KEY" \
  "https://new.videmak.net/v1/oa/works?search=sleep%20memory&per_page=5"

AI with any OpenAI SDK

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://new.videmak.net/v1", api_key=VIDEMAK_API_KEY)
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="deepseek-chat",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Summarise this abstract: ..."}],
)

Research tools in Claude, Cursor or any MCP client

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "videmak-research": {
      "url": "https://new.videmak.net/v1/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_VIDEMAK_API_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

Check references

curl -X POST -H "Authorization: Bearer $VIDEMAK_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"identifiers": ["10.1038/nrn2762", "PMID:23589831"]}' \
  "https://new.videmak.net/v1/research/tools/validate_citations"

Each response says what it cost in X-Credits-Charged and what is left in X-Credits-Balance. Out of credits returns 402.

Run Videmak yourself

The whole app is MIT licensed: the editor, the server and the converter. Run it with Docker on your own server. Paste one Videmak key and papers, AI, reviews and exports work at once, or connect your own providers one service at a time.

AI: DeepSeek, OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter or Ollama
Papers: Scholar (free key, 1,000 credits a day) or OpenAlex
Files: this server's disk, Wasabi or any S3-compatible storage
Email: SMTP or Resend

git clone https://github.com/Videmak/VidemakResearchAI
cd videmak
cp .env.example .env      # set PUBLIC_URL and VIDEMAK_API_KEY
docker compose up -d      # http://localhost:3000

The README has every setting, backups and upgrades.

For universities and research groups

Videmak for a whole department or university: hosted by us or on your own servers, set up with you, paid by invoice, with a support agreement. Ask us about single sign-on and links to your course system.

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