An Overleaf alternative that costs less and compiles longer.
Scholar is $75 a year. Overleaf's Student plan is $98, Standard $199 and Pro $399. Scholar compiles for up to 8 minutes where Overleaf's paid plans stop at 240 seconds, and it has no collaborator cap where Standard and Student stop at 10.
The short answer: pick Texeno if you pay for Overleaf and your limits are compile time, collaborators or the bill. Stay on Overleaf if you rely on Mendeley or journal submission, or have your institution's licence.
What you get for the money
Compiles that run longer
Overleaf's paid plans end a compile after 240 seconds. Scholar and Lab allow 8 minutes, and no plan has a compile quota. Paid compiles use the priority lane, so they start without waiting behind free ones at busy hours.
A collaborator list with no ceiling
Overleaf's Student and Standard plans allow 10 collaborators per project, and unlimited needs Pro at $399 a year. Texeno has no cap on any plan. Editors, reviewers and read-only viewers are all unlimited.
A lower bill
Scholar is $9 a month or $75 a year, against $98 for Student, $199 for Standard and $399 for Pro. For a group, Lab is from $49 a month or $490 a year, sold in sizes of 10, 25, 50, and 100 members. The team shares 8 compiles at once and 50 GB, and people you invite to a single project never count as members.
Errors in plain words, and a fast loop
Texeno reads the TeX log, says what went wrong in a sentence and takes you to the line. In our measurements most edits typeset again in 1 to 3 seconds (5 to 8 for documents full of TikZ or pgfplots figures), and paid plans start auto-compile 1.5 seconds after you stop typing.
What you keep when you switch
Nothing is rebuilt. A LaTeX project is a folder, and it moves as one.
Your files
Download the source as a .zip from Overleaf and upload it. Folders, figures, .bib files and custom classes come with it.
Your compiler
pdfLaTeX, LaTeX, XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX on TeX Live 2026, or an older version you choose per project, with biber and makeindex. Minted, SVG figures and other shell-command packages run on every plan.
The way you work
Track changes, comments, project chat, version history with labels and diffs, a visual editor, and shortcuts that follow Overleaf's.
Your tools
Sync with GitHub, Dropbox, Google Drive, GitLab or any Git server, and Zotero, on Scholar and Lab, plus a public template gallery for new documents.
The two at a glance
| Feature | Texeno | Overleaf |
|---|---|---|
| Paid compile limit | 8 minutes | 240 seconds |
| Cheapest paid plan for one person | $9 a month or $75 a year | $13 a month or $98 a year (Student) |
| Paid plan with unlimited collaborators | Scholar: $75 a year | Pro: $399 a year |
| Collaborators per project, paid |
Stay on Overleaf if
- Your university already pays for Overleaf and you are happy with it.
- You use Mendeley sync or direct journal submission. Texeno has neither yet.
- You need single sign-on through your institution. Texeno does not have it yet.
Switch to Texeno if
- Your compiles reach Overleaf's 240-second limit.
- Your paper has more than 10 authors and you would otherwise pay for Pro.
Overleaf's plans and limits are from its plans page.
Questions
How much does Texeno cost compared with Overleaf?
Scholar is $9 a month or $75 a year, against $98 a year for Overleaf Student, $199 for Standard and $399 for Pro. Scholar adds 8-minute compiles, the priority lane, 5 GB, full version history, GitHub sync and Zotero. A free plan lets you try it first.
Will my Overleaf project compile the same way?
Texeno runs the same compilers, on TeX Live 2026 or an older version you choose per project, so most projects build unchanged. If a project depends on an older package version, pick the TeX Live version it was written for in the project's settings. If it still does not build, the logs pane says where and why.
Can my co-authors stay on Overleaf?
Try your own paper in Texeno.
Start free, upload a project as a .zip and press Recompile. Upgrade when you need longer compiles.
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