Liner

Name: Liner
Brand: Liner (라이너)
Price: 17.99 USD
Availability: InStock

Liner (라이너), South Korea, liner.com

AI search from a Korean startup that answers mainly with academic papers and highly reliable sources

Search Writing/Productivity

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CurrencyUSD KRW EUR

Personal starting price$17.99+Official price in USD

Free tierFree plan available

Korean supportGood

Price checked 2026-10-17, source: liner.com/pricing. Prices and benefits may change. Check the official site before you pay.

Pros

Answers centered on academic material and sources
Useful for research and assignments

Cons

Little difference from Perplexity for general search
Advanced features are paid

These are opinions compiled by Pickx from public sources.

At a glance

Liner is a source-based AI search/research service made by the Korean startup Liner. It answers based on web documents and academic papers and attaches a source to every sentence. One subscription covers AI search (Liner), paper research (Liner Scholar) and writing (Liner Write), so it suits students and researchers writing assignments/papers, and office workers who need evidence-backed reports. The domain changed from getliner.com to liner.com, and the mobile app was recently renamed "AI Search & Investing" (which includes investment news analysis).

Full model list

Liner's pricing page says only "use of major AI models (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)", and we could not confirm the exact version names of the selectable models on the official page. Below is the range confirmed officially.

Model	Type	Features	Plans that can use it
Liner default search engine (Advanced Search)	Liner's in-house search/answer system	Finds web and academic material and answers with a source attached to each sentence 95.3% on the OpenAI SimpleQA benchmark (announced by Liner)	All plans, including Free (unlimited)
ChatGPT (OpenAI GPT family)	External model	The app description mentions GPT-5 Strong at general writing/analysis The exact version needs checking in the in-app model selector	Pro Max Team Enterprise
Claude (Anthropic)	External model	Strong at natural sentences and long document handling Exact version cannot be confirmed officially	Pro Max Team Enterprise
Gemini (Google)	External model	Strengths are long context and fast responses Exact version cannot be confirmed officially	Pro Max Team Enterprise
Premium external models Other external models	Credit-deducted models	Using external models in Liner Scholar/Write chat deducts credits per request Premium 30 credits Other 20 credits	Plans with credits
Deep Research	In-depth research feature	Digs through many sources at length and organizes the result as a report 40 credits per request	All plans (usage differs by plan)
Liner Scholar agents	Research-only agents	8 kinds, including hypothesis generation/evaluation literature review citation recommendations survey generation/simulation peer review 30 to 80 credits per request	Plans with credits (desktop only)
Image generation	Image generation feature	Generates images within answers 20 credits per request Model name not disclosed	All plans

Liner's Model API for developers provides dozens of models such as GPT/Claude/Gemini/DeepSeek/Grok/GLM through an API, but this is separate from the model selection list in the regular app.

Plans

Plan	Price (monthly billing / yearly billing)	What you can do	Usage limits	Features
Free	Free	Advanced Search Research Assistant File upload	Unlimited Advanced Search Research Assistant 10 times per day File upload once per day (1 file/25MB per question) 0 agent credits	Ads are attached to answers Scholar mode/per-sentence citations are unlimited
Pro	$17.99/mo $14.99 per month with yearly billing (about 20% off)	Use ChatGPT/Gemini/Claude File upload Agents	File upload 20 times per day (5 files/100MB per question) 1,000 agent credits per month Unlimited Research Assistant	No ads One subscription covers Liner/Scholar/Write Won price not shown officially
Max	$35.99/mo $29.99 per month with yearly billing	File upload Agents Deep Research	Unlimited file upload (20 files/200MB per question) 2,500 agent credits per month Deep Research/credit limits greatly expanded	The plan Liner marks as "recommended"
Team	$26.99 per seat per month (2 to 20 people)	All Max features	2,500 credits	Billing/management unified under a master account Admin workspace Team data excluded from AI training Whether yearly billing exists is not on the official page
Enterprise	Contact separately	All Team features	Not disclosed officially	Dedicated manager Onboarding Audit logs Bigger discount rate
API (Liner API Model API MCP)	Usage-based pay as you go	Search API External model API Search/Scholar MCP	Not disclosed officially	For developers See the developer docs for detailed prices

If you run short of credits, you can buy extra credit packs or turn on auto top-up. Subscription credits reset on the monthly renewal date and do not carry over.
Refunds: not allowed in principle, but customers in Korea can get a refund within 7 days of purchase if unused.
App Store prices can differ from the web (for example, in-app Professional Yearly $175.99 to $324.99).

Which plan to choose

Free: Students/office workers who occasionally use source-backed search for assignments or reports. Advanced search is unlimited, so it is enough for basic use, but ads are attached.
Pro: Graduate students/researchers who often upload papers/material PDFs to summarize and want to use GPT/Claude/Gemini together. At about $15 a month with yearly billing, it offers good value.
Max: Researchers who run Scholar agents such as literature review/hypothesis generation and Deep Research every day, and people who handle many large files.
Team: Organizations such as labs/consulting teams where 2 to 20 people share it, want to manage billing in one place, and need exclusion from data training.
Enterprise: University or company-wide adoption that needs audit logs/dedicated support.
API: Developers who want to add source-based search or paper search to their own service.

Notes

Information checked: 2026-10-12
Sources:
Not confirmed: the exact version names of the external models you can choose in the app, the won prices, and student discounts are not on the official page.

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Prices converted at 1 USD = ₩1,329.49 (2026-10-19). Original price shown in brackets. Taxes as listed by each provider.

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