Built for researchers, not enterprises
A cloud LaTeX editor priced for grad students, not labs.
CompetitorKit gives you full LaTeX compile, complete document history, and PDF export — without the timeout limits of a free tier or the $21/month price of Overleaf Standard.
What you actually get for the price
The Overleaf free tier caps compiles at 24 seconds and only keeps 24 hours of history — fine for a problem set, painful for a thesis. We unlock both for less than Standard.
| Feature | CompetitorKit | Overleaf Free | Overleaf Standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly price | $14 / mo | $0 | $21 / mo |
| Compile timeout | Full compile | 24 seconds | Full compile |
| Document history | Full history | 24 hours | Full history |
| PDF export | Included | Included | Included |
| Annual option | $99 / yr | — | $199 / yr |
Overleaf pricing and limits per overleaf.com as of June 2026. We don't claim parity on every Overleaf integration — we claim parity on the three things that actually slow down a thesis.
One plan. No free tier. No upsell ladder.
Everything CompetitorKit does is in the plan: full compile, complete history, PDF export. Start with seven days. Pay monthly or save with annual — cancel any time.
- Full pdflatex / xelatex / lualatex compile
- Complete revision history, restore any version
- One-click PDF export, BibTeX support
- 7-day trial, then $14/month or $99/year
CompetitorKit Researcher
7-day trialor $99 / year — about $8.25 / month
Start 7-day trialTrial starts when you sign in. Cancel before day 7 at no charge.
Includes everything. No "Pro", no "Team", no add-ons. If we add collaboration later, current subscribers keep their price.
We started here because researchers kept saying the same things.
We're a new product — no manufactured testimonials. These are patterns we heard before building, paraphrased from public threads on LaTeX, thesis writing, and graduate budgets.
“The free tier kills my build halfway through chapter four. I either pay $21 or compile locally and lose the cloud sync.”
Pain pattern from r/LaTeX threads on thesis compile limits
“History only goes back 24 hours on the free plan. I rewrote a section, my advisor wanted the old one, and it was gone.”
Pain pattern from graduate writing forums
“$21 a month is two textbook chapters worth of coffee. For one user editing one thesis, it never made sense.”
Pain pattern from PhD budget threads