Models
A mixture of models, cross-checked.
Every frontier model (Claude, GPT, Gemini, Mistral, Grok) alongside our own, routed per sub-task and made to check each other. No single-model bias.
Explore Science vs Trinka AI
Trinka works on everything an editorial office checks before a paper reaches a reviewer. Explore Science works on what the reviewer says next.
The short answer
Trinka is built to get a manuscript past the desk: subject-specific language correction, 25+ compliance checks, a citation screen against Crossref, and a journal match from your abstract. None of that reads the design of the study or weighs the evidence behind a claim. Explore Science returns a Calibre score out of 100 across eight fixed categories covering methodology, claims and evidence, with the method published at /scoring and every reference tested against the statement it is attached to. If your draft is written and the open question is whether the work holds, run the review: $49, no subscription.
Compared July 2026 · from Trinka AI's own published materials
Choose Explore Science when
- Calibre scores the methodology, claims and evidence out of 100 across eight fixed categories, with the scoring method published at /scoring.
- Every reference is checked against live scholarly databases, including whether the source actually supports the claim it is cited for.
- Novelty Check searches the live literature through Semantic Scholar and OpenAlex to test whether the finding is already in print.
- Claude, GPT, Gemini, Mistral, Grok and our in-house Explorer One cross-check each other across a review that runs up to 2 hours.
- Every revision is scored, so per-dimension movement between drafts is visible to you and to any co-author in the workspace.
Choose Trinka AI when
- Subject-specific and technical grammar correction, with style guides including APA, IEEE, ACS, AGU and AMA 11th.
- A free Basic plan: 5,000 words a month, four credits, a personal dictionary, Journal Finder and one plagiarism score.
- Plagiarism checking built in against 190M+ paid scholarly articles, 200M+ open-access articles and 99B+ web pages, plus an AI text detector.
- It runs where you already write: Word add-in, Windows and offline apps, browser plug-in, API, and on-premise for enterprises.
- A Certificate of Editing issued by Enago after human editors work on the file, for journals that ask for language verification.
Side by side
| Capability |  | Trinka AI |
|---|---|---|
| What it does | Reviews the research: methodology, claims, evidence | Corrects academic and technical writing, then screens the file for submission |
| TurnaroundTime to a result | Up to 2 hours, run once on a draft you consider finished | Corrections as you type; Proofread File returns a tracked-changes copy in minutes |
| Review engine | Claude, GPT, Gemini, Mistral and Grok run alongside our own Explorer One, each checking what the others found before any of it reaches you | Its own models tuned for academic and technical writing; no model list published |
| Quality score | Calibre: scores the research out of 100 across eight categories | A language quality score on each Proofread File run, plus 25+ technical checks across eight categories; the published outputs score the writing and submission compliance |
| Reference checking | Every reference resolved against live scholarly databases, and flagged when the source does not support the claim attached to it | Citation Quality Check against Crossref: retracted, unverified, predatory-journal, duplicate and dated references, plus journal overuse; 1 credit per 30 citations |
| Literature search | Novelty Check reads Semantic Scholar and OpenAlex to test whether the finding is already published | Journal Finder matches your abstract to journals from an OpenAlex-sourced index, with predatory-journal warnings; free to use |
| Revisions | Every version scored, with per-dimension movement shown draft to draft and co-authors in the same workspace | Each proofread run returns a revision report grouping the changes it made by category |
| Paper-grounded chat | Rosa is briefed on the paper, the review it just received, and the rest of your body of work | /ask and AI Agents draft and rephrase from the text in front of you, rather than from a review of it |
| Plagiarism and AI text | Plagiarism, AI-text and AI-figure detection available as plug-ins | Built in and credit-metered: 24 credits a standard check, 240 pages a year on Premium Plus, 1,000 on Confidential Data |
| Pricing | Free to start; $49 buys one full-depth review outright; plans from $99 a month if you submit regularly | Free Basic tier; Premium around $20 monthly or about $80 a year on Trinka's own comparison page; Premium Plus and Confidential Data priced above that, with reports metered in credits |
90% rate a review on par with or better than the human peer review they have had.
Two in three rate it better. From 304 head-to-head ratings by researchers who had received peer review on the same paper. These are our own users, self-reported, which is worth knowing when you weigh them.
Depth
Why a thorough review takes the time it takes.
Most tools optimize for speed. Explore Science runs the engine we built to conduct original research autonomously, and points it at your manuscript: it reads recent literature in your field, checks every reference, and works through the paper the way a careful reviewer does.
The time is the method, not an overhead on it.
How a paper is scoredTime spent thinking about your paper
How long a review actually takes
Single-pass LLM
~2 min
Other AI reviewers
5 to 20 min
Human peer review
(active reading time)
~30 min
Explore Science
up to 2 hrs
Industry observation; self-reported vendor figures; Publons peer-review time survey, 2018.
The engine
What actually reads your paper.
Three pieces of the architecture do the work behind every review.
Agents
Scientific agents that reason like the field.
Dozens of specialised agents work each review in parallel, each tuned to one dimension of analysis, spawning more when a section needs them.
Infrastructure
An in-house science stack.
Memory that holds your paper in context for the whole review, live verification of every citation, and novelty assessment. Built over years of autonomous science.
What the 25+ technical checks screen for
Trinka's Technical Checks span eight categories: journal scope match, technical compliance, ethical compliance, authorship details, reference details, figures and tables, clinical trial information, and keywords and summary. They confirm the consent statement is present, the affiliations resolve, the captions are cited, the trial ID is there. That is the editorial office's checklist, and clearing it is worth a credit.
It is also a checklist about the paperwork around the study. Whether the control group was adequate, whether the effect survives the sample size, whether the discussion claims more than the results carry: those questions arrive later, from a reviewer. An Explore Science review asks them first, and returns them as a Calibre score you can argue with rather than a note you can tick.
A retracted reference and an unsupported one are different failures
Citation Quality Check validates against Crossref: it flags entries that have been retracted, that no database can find, that sit in a predatory journal, that repeat, that are old, or that lean too heavily on one journal. Every one of those is a provenance question, and catching a retraction before submission is genuinely useful.
Explore Science asks the other question. A reference can be real, current, and in a strong journal, and still not say what your sentence says it says. We resolve each reference against live scholarly databases and test it against the claim it is attached to, then count the result against the Calibre category for evidence, next to the argument it weakens.
Journal Finder and Novelty Check both read OpenAlex
Trinka pulls journal recommendations from an index sourced from OpenAlex, filtered by scope, impact factor, open access and publisher, with predatory titles marked. It answers where the paper should go.
Explore Science reads Semantic Scholar and OpenAlex to answer whether it should go anywhere yet: what is already in print on this question, how close the nearest published result sits, and which part of your contribution survives that comparison. The novelty pass runs alongside the protocol and editorial passes, so the answer arrives with the review rather than as a separate errand.
Common questions
Can Trinka put a human editor on my paper?
Yes, and that is a real reason to keep it. Enago editors work the file through Trinka and issue a Certificate of Editing, which some journals accept as language verification from authors writing in a second language. Explore Science does not sell editing hours; the review is machine-run and returns findings, not a copyedited manuscript.
Can I get a review of a grant proposal or a protocol, not a finished paper?
Yes. Explore Science runs a protocol and proposal pass built for work that has not produced results yet, so the design, the power calculation and the analysis plan get scored before you spend the sample. Trinka's checks are written around a manuscript headed for a journal.
Where does my manuscript go, in each case?
Trinka's answer is to keep it near you: a Word add-in, a Windows app, an offline grammar checker, and a Confidential Data plan for teams of five or more with instant deletion and no AI training, plus on-premise deployment for enterprises. Explore Science runs in a hosted workspace, and we do not train on your manuscript.
Will Explore Science fix my English?
No. We do not rewrite prose, and if language is what stands between you and a desk rejection, Trinka's subject-specific correction and style guides are the tool for it. What we return is a judgement on the research: eight scored categories, the references tested against the claims, and the specific findings a reviewer is likely to raise.
Claims about Trinka AI reflect its own published materials; everything about Explore Science reflects what the platform does today. Sources: Trinka AI, Trinka features, Trinka pricing plans, Trinka Technical Checks, Trinka Citation Quality Check, Trinka Plagiarism Check, Trinka Proofread File, Trinka Journal Finder, Trinka Certificate of Editing, Trinka DocuMark, Trinka about us (Crimson Interactive, Enago), Trinka price comparison page. Something out of date? and we will fix it.
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