ReferenceLib is currently in a private pilot for CIPD students. Every feature that exists today, question decoding, evidence search, evidence for your paragraph, reference verification, citation generation and manual source entry, is free, with no account and no payment details required. Nothing you use today will ever ask you to pay during the pilot.
Question decoding, evidence search and citation generation are planned to stay free and unlimited for everyone, with no account required, permanently. A future feature that uses a language model to check whether a claim you have already written is supported by evidence (not yet built) is planned to be the only thing gated: five free uses every rolling 30 days on a free account (email only, no payment details), or unlimited use on a full membership planned at R599 a year (roughly $36). No feature that is live in the tool today will be moved behind that paywall retroactively.
This page describes the current plan and is updated as pricing decisions are finalised. It is not a contract.