Research tooling that respects sources
Cited retrieval over your corpus, a 1M-token window for literature-scale reading, a genuinely free tier to start, and opt-in access to real quantum hardware for research workloads.
Built for evidence-driven work
Research runs on citations, and so does Bee's retrieval: upload a paper corpus, lab documentation, or archival material, and answers come back grounded with cite-backs to the source passages. Research is an active first-class domain on the platform.
For synthesis across a whole literature set — methods sections compared across dozens of papers, a decade of committee minutes — the 1M-token long-context mode on Comb and Buzz reads it in one request.
Access that starts free
- →Bee Cell — free, 128K context, 500K monthly tokens, no card: real capability for students and first experiments.
- →Bee Brood ($19/mo) — an individual researcher's tier with 256K context and API access.
- →Bee Comb ($79/mo, 3 seats) — a lab-group workspace with pooled tokens and shared billing.
- →API plans meter per token at published rates for programmatic pipelines and course tooling.
Real quantum hardware, honestly framed
For quantum-computing research and teaching, Bee's quantum integration submits real circuits to IBM Heron r2 processors (156 qubits) — opt-in per request, never silently routed. A local statevector simulator is free for development, and the Quantum Hardware Pack (Hive and above) runs metered jobs on actual QPUs.
That's a working on-ramp for coursework and experiments: simulate locally, then run the same workload on hardware when it matters.
Multimodal course and research material
Comb, Buzz, and Hive accept images and video natively — lecture slides, figures, recorded seminars, and whiteboard photos can be analysed in the same conversation as text.
Governance for institutions
Bee requires users to be 16 or older, and education for minors is a restricted (Tier-3) domain — deployments for younger students are a gated, acknowledged use, not a default. Customer data is not used to train the Bee base model, and institutional data handling follows the published DPA under Singapore PDPA and GDPR frameworks.
Frequently asked questions
- Is there a real free tier for students and researchers?
- Yes — Bee Cell is free with a 128K context window and 500K monthly tokens, no card required. It's the full platform at small scale, not a demo.
- Can Bee help with literature reviews?
- Yes — retrieval grounds answers in your uploaded corpus with citations, and the 1M-token long-context mode on Comb and Buzz can hold a large set of papers in a single request for cross-paper synthesis.
- Do researchers get access to real quantum computers?
- Yes, opt-in: Bee submits circuits to IBM Heron r2 hardware (156 qubits) for Quantum Hardware Pack holders on Hive and above, with a free local statevector simulator for development. Requests never route through quantum hardware implicitly.
- Can Bee be used in courses for minors?
- Education for minors is a restricted (Tier-3) domain: accounts require users 16+, and any deployment involving younger students runs through explicit gating under the Acceptable Use Policy.
- Does uploaded research data train the model?
- No. Customer data, including research corpora, is not used to train the Bee base model.
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Start on the free tier
Bee Cell is free — no card. Scale to paid tiers, the API, or sovereign deployment when you are ready.