Pricing
Reading WASTE is free and open access — forever. We charge for tools, data, and infrastructure, never for acceptance.
Now live — AI Precheck is available today: your first desk check is free, then $12 per report. The other plans below are still planned; we'll announce them (with waivers) before any fees apply.
For everyone
Read & Cite
Free/ always
Every article, dataset, and protocol is open access under CC BY 4.0.
- Full-text access, no account needed
- Download, cite, and reuse
- Search the failure-mode archive
For authors
Optional tools that help your submission succeed. You can always submit without them.
AI Precheck
1st free, then $12/ per report
Your first AI desk check is free — just sign in. Run it before you submit, so you don't get desk-rejected.
- Submission-type classification
- Required-section & ethics/stats checks
- Completeness score + author fix-list
Assisted Submission
$99–$299/ per manuscript
We help convert messy lab notes or a failed paper into a WASTE template.
- Structured-template conversion
- Data/code availability check
- Submission-ready formatting
Article Processing
$399–$899/ per published article
Full publication once accepted — lower than large OA journals, with waivers.
- DOI registration & indexing (planned)
- Open-access hosting
- Waivers for unfunded / LMIC authors
For labs & institutions
Turn the archive into infrastructure — private failure memory, mandates, and data access.
Lab Plan
$199–$999/ per lab / month
A private failed-experiment memory for your lab — before you publish.
- Private negative-results archive
- AI screening for internal notes
- Search what your lab already tried
Institutional Gateway
Custom/ per year
A department- or funder-wide negative-results archive and mandate compliance.
- Org-wide negative-results repository
- Reporting & dashboards
- Independence firewall built in
Journals & Publishers
From $1/ per submission
Run WASTE desk checks inside your own submission flow — author-paid or journal-paid.
- AI technical / ethics / stats checks
- Author-paid or annual license
- API + editorial firewall built in
Data / API
$99–$999/ per month
Query failure-mode intelligence — know what failed before repeating it.
- Search API over the index
- Failure-mode metadata export
- R&D / pharma / materials use cases
Editorial independence
Fees fund tools, review infrastructure, and hosting — never acceptance. AI performs initial desk checks; human editors make every publication decision. Waivers are available for unfunded researchers and those from low- and middle-income countries.
Read our publication ethics