OpenPaper API / MCP — not live yet, testing demand

Generate a full, cited research paper
from inside Claude.

One tool call. A real paper back — outline, sections, and verified citations pulled from 500M+ academic sources. No browser, no dashboard. Just an API and an MCP server for Claude, Cursor, and any MCP client.

Join the waitlist Reserve your spot — $19 refundable

Built on the same engine behind openpaper.dev — 18 specialized AI agents, zero-hallucination citations sourced from OpenAlex, Crossref, and Semantic Scholar. This page is a demand test: the API doesn't exist yet. We're deciding whether to build it based on who shows up here.

The interface

One tool. That's it.

No dashboards, no multi-step wizard. A single MCP tool (or HTTP endpoint) that takes a topic and hands back a finished paper.

mcp — openpaper

// called from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client
generate_paper({
  topic: "The economics of open-source AI models",
  context: "Focus on venture funding trends, 2023-2026",
  level: "graduate",      // high-school | undergraduate | graduate | professional
  style: "APA",            // APA | MLA | Chicago | IEEE
  pages: 12
})

Returns a complete paper — title, abstract, sections, in-text citations, and a full reference list — as Markdown, DOCX, or PDF.

Ships as an MCP server (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor) and a plain HTTP endpoint. Bring your own workflow — agent pipeline, internal tool, or a one-off request.

Pricing

Usage-based. Pay for what you generate.

No subscription, no seat fees. An API key and a per-paper price, banded by length.

Short paper

$5/paper

1–5 pages. Essays, briefs, summaries.

Most common

Standard paper

$7/paper

6–15 pages. Term papers, reports, most requests.

Long paper

$9/paper

16–30 pages. Theses, lit reviews, deep research.

Pay-as-you-go by API key. Building on top of this for a product or classroom? Volume rates available — email us.

Get in early

Two ways to get access

We're validating demand before we commit engineering time to the API. Both options tell us it's worth building — a deposit just tells us more.

Join the waitlist

Free. We'll email you the moment the API/MCP server is live, with docs and a key.

Reserve your spot — $19

Skip the queue. A fully refundable $19 deposit moves you to the front of the access list and converts into $19 of API usage once we launch. Changed your mind? Full refund, any time before launch, no questions — just email us.

Reserve access — $19

Handled by Stripe. $19 becomes $19 of API credit at launch, or a full refund on request — whichever you want. This is a real charge to a real Stripe account; it is not a subscription.

Is this live yet?

No. We're validating demand before committing engineering time to building it. Your email, or your deposit, is the signal that decides whether we build it next.

What does the $19 deposit actually reserve?

Priority access when the API/MCP server ships, plus $19 of usage credit once it's live. If we don't build it, or you change your mind, you get a full refund — any time before launch, no questions asked.

Who's behind this?

The team running openpaper.dev, the AI research-paper platform. The API would expose the same engine as a tool instead of a web app.

Generate a full, cited research paperfrom inside Claude.