Transparent Pricing
From single departments to entire organizations. Self-hosted or cloud. Starting at FREE (open source).
Integration scope and readiness are confirmed during onboarding
All Major Platforms for Higher Education
Connector maturity varies by platform. Supported partial fixes require human review; validate upload and monitoring in your deployment.
Individual Faculty Plans
Sign up now with your .edu email. No waitlist, no IT department required.
Faculty Starter
Fix your course materials for free
- Defined monthly Processing Unit allowance
- 50 pages per document
- PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint scanning
- AI-generated alt text
- Auto-remediation
- Automated findings reports
- Cloud-hosted (no setup required)
- Email support
Faculty Plus
More documents, LaTeX support
- Defined monthly Processing Unit allowance
- 100 pages per document
- Everything in Starter, plus:
- LaTeX/MathML support (STEM)
- Advanced equation rendering
- Detailed WCAG reports
- Priority email support (2-business-day response target)
- Usage analytics dashboard
Faculty Pro
Higher-volume processing + video
- Defined monthly Processing Unit allowance
- 250 pages per document
- Everything in Plus, plus:
- Video transcription & captions
- Website scanning (5/month)
- Bulk upload (up to 25 files)
- API access (work consumes Processing Units)
- Priority support (1-business-day response target)
Individual plans require a .edu email address • Learn more about faculty plans →
Department Plans
For single departments or small teams - from FREE open source to fully managed cloud
Open Source (Self-Hosted)
Explore the beta tools at no software charge
- Eight beta tool areas (PDF, PPT, LaTeX, Image, Video, Website, Code, Reporting)
- Open core (MIT + AGPL) - CLI tools MIT, engine AGPL-3.0, nothing feature-gated
- Self-host on your own servers
- Same open-core codebase as managed deployments
- Community support (GitHub Issues)
- Control providers, data flows and storage in your deployment
- No vendor lock-in - export anytime
- You provide: Servers + IT support
Self-Hosted Department + Support
Free software + expert help
- Everything in Open Source tier
- Guided installation and upgrade planning
- Email support (2-business-day response target)
- Private support channel
- Supported release and model guidance
- Monthly check-ins
- Department user administration
- You provide: Department servers
Cloud Department
Managed department evaluation
- Everything in Self-Hosted + Support
- Aelira-managed pooled cloud
- Department user administration
- Monthly Processing Unit allowance set in the order form
- 100GB included storage
- API access (work consumes Processing Units)
- Canvas LTI and SSO scope confirmed during onboarding
- 99.9% monthly service target
- Priority support (1-business-day response target)
Institution Plans
For mid-size to large universities with multiple departments
Self-Hosted Institution / BYOC
Multi-department self-hosting
- Everything in Self-Hosted Department
- Multi-department tenant administration
- Institution-managed infrastructure or cloud account
- Centralized institution dashboard
- Institution-wide reporting
- P1 response target: 4 business hours
- Quarterly operational review
- Deployment and acceptance scoped separately
Cloud Institution Pooled
Bounded institution workload on managed capacity
- Multi-department tenant administration
- Monthly Processing Unit allowance set in the order form
- 500GB included storage
- API and bulk processing
- Priority support (P1: 4 business hours)
- Institution-wide reporting
- 99.9% monthly service target
- Integration scope confirmed during onboarding
Cloud Institution Dedicated
Dedicated, region-fixed inference capacity
- Dedicated 96GB GPU inference plane
- Pinned open-weight model and runtime manifest
- Monthly Processing Unit allowance set after benchmark
- Private regional deployment and controlled runtime egress
- Tenant administration, API, and reporting
- Content-free application telemetry
- 99.9% contractual SLA available in the order form
- Priority support (P1: 4 business hours)
- Deployment and integrations scoped separately
Cloud Institution HA
Two inference workers with tested failover
- Everything in Cloud Institution Dedicated
- Two independent dedicated inference workers
- Reserved interactive capacity
- Tested failover and recovery runbook
- 99.95% contractual SLA available after acceptance testing
- Priority support (P1: 2 business hours)
- Quarterly operational review
- Advanced integrations available by statement of work
Deployment Cost Examples
Illustrative plan configurations. Staff review, infrastructure and workload costs vary by institution.
Example: Small College
Illustrative 5-department configuration
Institution provides infrastructure and staff review
799/dept × 5; example configuration
Confirm processing allowance and deployment scope
Check your actual return
Measure staff time and review outcomes during a bounded pilot.
Example: Large University
Illustrative 50-department configuration
Institution manages infrastructure
Confirm workload and acceptance scope
Acceptance testing required for SLA
Check your actual return
Measure staff time and review outcomes during a bounded pilot.
Example: Multi-Campus University
Illustrative 100+ department configuration
Dedicated regional inference; benchmark workload
Two inference workers; validate failover in acceptance
Check your actual return
Measure staff time and review outcomes during a bounded pilot.
Model your institution's assumptions and include review time
Calculate Your Custom ROICompare accessibility workflows
Compare document repair, STEM support and deployment options for your institution.
Scroll horizontally if needed to see all workflows.
| Workflow | Aelira | YuJa Panorama | Blackboard Ally | Manual work |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PDF repairs | Metadata, OCR and eligible structural fixes; reading-order inspection is read-only. PDF guide | Guided fixes, AutoPilot and structural remediation modules. Repair checklist | PDF auto-tagging; OCR, title and language quick fixes. PDF options | Specialists inspect and edit each file with chosen tools. |
| Math and LaTeX | Processes supported .tex source and generates MathML review artifacts. LaTeX guide · Source | Math alternatives in LaTeX, text and audio. Panorama API | Word equations in HTML and audio alternatives. Release notes | Authors edit source and check rendered math with their chosen tools. |
| Course and file workflows | CLI scans PDF directories recursively; supported fixes are handled per file. CLI guide · PDF CLI | Course reporting and alternative-format API. Panorama API | Checks course materials and produces alternative formats. Formats FAQ | Staff scope files, assign work and track review. |
| Deployment options | Free self-hosted software, optional department support or managed cloud. Plans | LMS-oriented vendor service; modules depend on contract. Panorama | LMS-oriented vendor service; modules depend on contract. Ally | Depends on staff, contractors and selected tools. |
| Cost | Software free for self-hosting. Optional support $799 USD/month; managed cloud $1,499 USD/month. Plan details | Contact vendor for a quote. YuJa contact | Contact vendor for a quote. Ally contact | Costs depend on tools, specialist skills and staffing. |
Aelira is in beta; review originals and outputs. Free software excludes hosting, model and staff costs. Vendor modules depend on contract.
Free self-hosted software, with optional support and managed cloud
Aelira processes supported LaTeX source and provides review artifacts for STEM content.
Pricing & Plans FAQ
The free open-source software includes Aelira's scanning and remediation engine. Paid plans add support, managed infrastructure, tenant administration, reporting, and integrations as listed for each offer. Compute-backed plans use defined Processing Unit, storage, and service allowances; your order form records the exact scope.
Self-hosted and bring-your-own-cloud plans run in infrastructure you control. You own the hardware or cloud bill and normal platform operations; Aelira provides the contracted software support and deployment services. Aelira cloud plans include managed application and inference infrastructure in the contracted region. Pooled, dedicated, and high-availability offers provide different levels of capacity isolation and availability.
With self-hosting or BYOC, your institution buys and operates the compute, storage, networking, backup, and monitoring. Aelira cloud prices include those direct costs and the capacity reserved for your service. Dedicated and high-availability cloud cost more because they reserve isolated GPU capacity instead of sharing a pool.
Yes! You can upgrade from self-hosted to cloud at any time. We'll help migrate your data and configuration. You can also downgrade from cloud to self-hosted (though you'll need to provide infrastructure). Contact [email protected] for migration assistance.
Institution plans replace per-department multiplication with one tenant and a defined workload allowance. We size the Processing Unit, storage, integration, support, and availability requirements during discovery, then record the price and any approved expansion blocks in the order form.
A pilot is a bounded evaluation with a frozen corpus, agreed success criteria, and a written data-handling path. The current higher-education pilot runs for six weeks at no software charge. Any infrastructure work, continuation price, case study, or extension is stated in writing; each institution determines its own review and purchase-order requirements.
Accessible content requires an ongoing publication and review process. Scope Aelira against new content, course updates, and unresolved issues as part of your institution's obligations. US Title II timing varies by public-entity category; Australian DDA and DSE obligations have no matching US date.
Yes. Annual prepayment is priced at 11.25 times the monthly service fee, a 6.25% discount. Implementation, usage expansion, taxes, and third-party services are excluded. The signed order form controls renewal, price protection, and any service-specific terms.
Faculty subscriptions can be cancelled before the next billing period. Department and institution terms, including termination, transition assistance, data export, and deletion, are set in the signed order form. The six-week pilot can end without a production subscription.
Yes. Contact [email protected] when you need institution-wide self-hosting, a dedicated or high-availability cloud route, custom integrations, data migration, a multi-campus design, or special security and legal terms. Infrastructure and integration work is scoped separately from the recurring subscription.
Ready to Get Started?
Individual faculty: Sign up free now (500 spots). Departments: Join our waitlist.
Questions? Email us at [email protected]