Will the output be scientifically accurate?

AI gets you 99% of the way there; you handle the final 1%. Every label, arrow and shape stays editable, so you can verify and correct any detail before submission — nothing is locked into flat pixels.

Can I edit a generated figure?

Yes, that's the core of the product. Refine with AI edits, or export editable PPTX and layered SVG and adjust every element in the built-in vector canvas or in PowerPoint and Illustrator.

Can I use the figures in journal submissions?

Publication and commercial rights come with any paid plan or credit pack — on those you retain full rights to everything you generate, and exports reach 600+ DPI at single-column width. The free credits are for evaluating the tool and do not carry publication rights. Whether an AI-assisted figure needs disclosure is a separate matter and depends on your target journal's policy — when in doubt, add a one-line note in your methods.

Is my unpublished data safe?

Private uploads are encrypted in transit and at rest, and are never used to train models. Your manuscripts, sketches and figures remain yours alone.

How is this different from BioRender or raw AI image tools?

Template libraries limit you to shapes someone already drew; raw AI tools give you flat pixels you can't correct. Scientific Figure generates to scientific conventions and keeps the result fully editable — science-grade output you can still fix.

AI figure engine · for researchers

Free AI Scientific Figure Generator. Turn a text prompt, hand sketch, PDF, or abstract into publication-ready scientific figures.

Q: Who is Scientific Figure for?

Researchers, graduate students, educators, R&D teams and science communicators — anyone who needs accurate figures without a designer. It is built for blank-canvas users: no Illustrator or BioRender skills required.

Free to start. Every label, color, and shape remains editable — not just a flat image.

Trusted in the lab

Used by researchers from 97 universities and research institutes across 44 countries — and counting

A free AI figure generator, built for journals

The whole loop, not just the first draft — 100 free credits, no card.

Illustration

Cell biology, anatomy and mechanism figures, drawn from a sentence, a sketch or the paper itself.

AI scientific illustration generator

Diagram & Chart

Signalling pathways, cycles and flow diagrams, with every node in the right order.

Browse diagram tools

Plot

Bar graphs, box plots and heatmaps drawn from your numbers, with journal-style axes.

Bar graph maker

Start creating

A figure from your paper in four steps

Bring what you already have — and change anything afterwards.

How it works

From paper to FIGURE

Start from anything

A sentence, a whiteboard sketch, an abstract, or the whole paper as a PDF.

Generate

A publication-ready figure in about 30 seconds, drawn to scientific conventions.

Change everything

Fix a gene name, redraw one panel, recolour to a journal palette or strip the background. Nothing is baked in.

Export in any format

PNG and JPG at 300 or 600 dpi, layered SVG, or an editable PPTX slide.

Everything a journal submission asks for

House colours, one consistent style and proof of the right to publish.

Built for journals

What else you GET

Journal palettes

Recolour a finished figure to Nature, Science, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA or Okabe-Ito in one click.

Nine illustration styles

Pick one look and every figure in the paper is drawn in the same hand.

Publication license

On paid plans, each figure can carry a numbered PDF certificate — proof of commercial and journal-publication rights that an editor can verify online.

How the license works

Tools

Dedicated tools for the figures researchers hand in most often.

What is Scientific Figure?

Scientific Figure is an AI tool that turns a text prompt, a hand sketch, an abstract or a full paper PDF into a publication-ready scientific figure in about 30 seconds. Unlike a general-purpose image generator, it draws to the conventions of scientific illustration and leaves every element live — so a wrong gene name is a correction, not a regeneration.

Key facts

Four ways in — a sentence, a hand sketch, an abstract, or the whole paper as a PDF
Labels stay live text; arrows, colors and shapes stay objects you can move
Exports as PNG, JPG, layered SVG and editable PPTX
Up to 8K, and 600+ DPI at single-column width
Recolor to Nature, Science, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA or Okabe-Ito palettes
Nine illustration styles, from clean schematic to 3D render

Who is Scientific Figure for?

It is for anyone who needs an accurate figure and does not have a designer. No prior tool matters — experience with Illustrator, Inkscape or BioRender is optional, not assumed.

The PhD student with a revise-and-resubmit

Reviewer two wants the mechanism redrawn, the deadline is two weeks out, and learning Illustrator is not on the schedule.

The lab with no design budget

A figure or two per paper, several papers a year, and no line item for a scientific illustrator.

The educator building a lecture

A labelled diagram that is actually correct, exported as a slide that can still be edited in PowerPoint.

The PI writing a grant

A clean schematic for the proposal, in the hour before the submission portal closes.

The science communicator or medical writer

A published result turned into something a non-specialist takes in on the first pass.

How Scientific Figure compares

The three things researchers usually reach for each solve a different part of the problem — a fixed icon library, a general-purpose image model, or a professional vector editor. What follows is where each one stops.

	Scientific Figure	BioRender	General AI image tools	Illustrator / Inkscape
How a figure is made	Generated from your text, sketch or PDF	Assembled from an icon library	Generated from a prompt	Drawn by hand
Limited to premade shapes	No	Yes — the icon set	No	No
Editable afterwards	Every label, arrow and shape	Yes, within the editor	No — flat pixels	Fully
Follows scientific conventions	Yes	Yes	Inconsistently	Only if you know them
Vector and editable-slide export	SVG and PPTX	SVG; PPTX on select paid plans	No	SVG and AI
Design skill needed	None	Some	None	Substantial

BioRender's export tiers are as documented in its own help centre, August 2026.

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Pricing

Transparent pricing, safe payment

Start free with 100 credits. Upgrade when you publish.

Free

100 free creditsNo card needed

Try it on a real figure

Start free

The model the free plan runs on

GPT

100 credits to startGranted on sign-up, no credit card
No 2K output
No 4K output
No 8K upscale
Standard generation queue
Watermarked exports
No publication license
No customer support

Lite

$8.25/mo$9.9

2 months free$99 billed yearly

For light use

Advanced models after upgrading

FLUX

Seedream

GPT

Nano Banana

1,200 credits / month
Up to 4K export
Edit in Canvas
Layered SVG export
Fully editable PPTX export
No watermarks
Publication license certificate
Standard generation queue
Priority customer support

Frequently asked questions

Everything you need to know before your first figure.

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Free AI Scientific Figure Generator. Turn a text prompt, hand sketch, PDF, or abstract into publication-ready scientific figures.

Used by researchers from 97 universities and research institutes across 44 countries — and counting