Sources you can cite
Answers that used the web come back with the pages they came from, so a claim can be checked and referenced rather than trusted.
AI for students
An AI that fits a student budget, which is to say almost none.
Free to start: the first question needs no account, and a new one opens with a free trial of Pro — no card. If you keep it, the paid plan is $5, less than most student discounts on the assistants that charge $20.
What a term of AI actually costs
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| BlueAI trial ★ | $0 | A 14-day Pro trial with every new account, encrypted history, no card held |
| BlueAI Pro ★ | $5/mo | 10,500 messages a month, flagship models, 36 research sessions |
| ChatGPT Plus | $20/mo | About $80 over a four-month term |
| Claude Pro | $20/mo | About $80 over a four-month term |
| Perplexity Pro | $20/mo | Research focus, still one subscription |
Competitor prices are public entry-level paid plans, checked August 2026.
The parts that matter for coursework
Reads your PDFs
Attach the lecture slides, the set reading or the marking rubric and ask questions about what is inside them.
Explains, not just answers
Ask for the working, the intuition or a simpler version. Getting a worked explanation is the difference between a grade and an education.
No card, no email
The trial asks for no payment method, and an account is a username and password — useful when you do not want coursework attached to an identity.
Using it without getting into trouble
Most universities do not ban AI outright; they ban passing it off as your own. The distinction is usually written into the assessment brief, and it is worth reading before the deadline rather than after. Where a tool is allowed with acknowledgement, say so plainly in the submission.
The uses that are almost always fine are the ones that leave your thinking in the work: explaining a concept a lecturer rushed, turning messy notes into an outline you then write from, checking whether an argument holds, generating practice questions, or asking why a piece of code fails. The use that is almost always not fine is asking for the finished essay.
Practically, the trial is long enough to find out whether the tool earns its place in your work: deep research with sources, long documents, and the strong models. Pro at $5 raises it to 10,500 messages and 36 research sessions, which is dissertation territory rather than weekly-essay territory.
Student questions
Yes. The first question costs nothing and needs no account, a new account starts with a 14-day Pro trial, and there is no credit card or student verification to sit through.
There is no separate student price because the standard one is already $5 a month, below what most student discounts bring a $20 subscription down to.
That is the useful mode. Ask it to critique a draft, find the weak link in an argument, suggest counterarguments or explain a source. Submitting generated text as your own is a matter for your institution’s rules.
Detection tools are unreliable in both directions, which is exactly why the safe path is following the brief and acknowledging assistance where it is required.
Yes. Attach the file and ask questions about it; the attachment stays with that conversation.
Yes, and it is worth asking for the working rather than the answer. For code, paste the error alongside the snippet — that single habit fixes most of what people bring.
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