About Yila AI

Yila AI is a tool designed for researchers who work with scientific papers, data analysis, and presentation materials. It facilitates tasks from literature search and review to data analysis and creating conference-ready outputs. It emphasizes grounding outputs in real papers and provides editable exports suitable for academic work.

The system profiles uploaded data, suggests analysis paths, and returns results, charts, and reusable files. Users can upload CSV or XLSX files, and Yila AI outlines the analysis route before delivering interpretable results and exportable outputs.

Users can generate figures from natural language prompts, edit figures in the browser, and export them as editable files. The tool also offers literature reviews with citations and editable structure, built around full papers rather than encyclopedic summaries.

Yila AI presents step-by-step guides and use cases, showing how to move from literature searches to data analysis and presentation deliverables.

Use cases

Data analysis with charts and reusable scripts
Conference-ready posters and slides

Key features

Upload a CSV or XLSX and Yila profiles the data first, chooses an analysis path for your question, and returns clear results, professional charts, and reusable files.
Describe a mechanism, workflow, or scientific concept and quickly generate a polished figure for papers and academic slides, ready for further refinement.
Literature reviews grounded in full papers
Upload a paper. Generate an academic poster.
Upload your research paper and Yila maps out the argument, plans the narrative, and turns the background, methods, results, and conclusions into slides ready to present.
Find the papers that matter, faster
Turn a research paper into a professional academic poster with Yila
A review draft from 50+ full papers

Pros and cons

Pros

Credits-based usage with different plan levels

Includes Expert access with higher plans

Pricing

Starter

$20/mo

Monthly

10,000 credits per period
Lite + Pro models
Standard support

Flagship

$99/mo

Monthly

60,000 credits per period
Lite + Pro + Expert models
Dedicated support

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Frequently asked questions

What is Chat with PDF?

Chat with PDF is a reading workspace in Yila, an AI research agent. You upload a PDF, Yila reads it and gives a quick overview, and you ask follow-up questions while the original stays open beside the chat.

Is Chat with PDF free to use?

New accounts receive free credits to get started. Each conversation uses credits according to the work the agent does, and you can see your balance in the sidebar at any time.

What files can I upload?

Chat with PDF takes one PDF per upload, up to 50 MB. Once the conversation has started you can attach more files from the message box.

Can it read scanned PDFs?

Yes. When a PDF has no text layer, Yila runs OCR on the pages. Scans take longer and may be less exact than born-digital PDFs, especially for equations.

Which languages are supported?

You can ask in English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Thai and other languages. Yila replies in the language you write in, even when the paper is in another language.

Is my PDF private?

Your uploads are stored in your account and only you can open them. If you share a conversation, the link shows the chat, not your PDF file.

Can I turn the paper into slides, a poster or notes?

Yes. Ask in the same conversation — for example "make a 10-slide presentation of this paper" — and Yila builds it from the paper you uploaded.

Does it work on mobile?

Yes. On a phone the chat fills the screen, and the PDF opens full-screen from the button above the conversation.

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