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Elicit
✓ verifiedFreemium

Well-adopted AI research assistant for finding papers, summarizing, and extracting data at scale.

2.1M visits/mo
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Paper Digest
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI research platform for literature reviews, paper Q&A and daily digests, built for academics wanting cited answers.

140K visits/mo
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Scholar AI
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI research search tool for peer-reviewed papers with citation management, now integrated into Jenni AI's writing workspace.

156K visits/mo
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Up Learn
✓ verifiedPaid

AI-personalized online A Level and GCSE courses for UK students, backed by an A*/A grade guarantee or money back.

1.6M visits/mo
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PTE APEUni
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI-scored practice platform for PTE Academic and PTE Core exam prep, with question banks, predictions and study tools.

2.1M visits/mo
Pricing
Basic: Free
Plus: $10 per month, billed annually
Pro: $42 per month, billed annually
Team: $65 per user, per month billed annually
Enterprise: Custom

No public pricing

Basic: $9.99/month (50 credits/month, 9TB uploads)
Premium: $18.99/month (unlimited GPT & Copilot use)
Credits: $4.99 (25 credits)
Credits: $9.99 (50 credits)
GCSE Combined Science: from £49.99/month
Up Master (2028 access): £694.98 one-time for a single subject
Up Core (2028 access): £549.98 one-time for a single subject
Up Master monthly: £99.99/month pay-as-you-go
Up Core monthly: £74.99/month pay-as-you-go

Free trial available

No public pricing

Core features
  • AI-enabled systematic reviews
  • Research reports
  • Upload your own PDFs
  • Quick summaries
  • Source quotes
  • Question answering
  • literature review generator with per-sentence citations
  • AI reader for PDFs
  • AI writer with citations
  • academic claim verification
  • question answering over literature
  • daily, conference and best-paper digests
  • cross-source search of papers, patents and grants
  • Search across millions of peer-reviewed papers
  • Agentic AI chat that consults research and uploaded PDFs
  • Auto-citation in over 2,600 citation styles
  • One-click Zotero/Mendeley library import with metadata and PDFs
  • ScholarAI GPT available in the ChatGPT GPT Store
  • Developer API for integrating research search
  • Interactive video lessons mapped to specific exam boards
  • AI diagnostic algorithm for personalized revision
  • Detailed progress tracking across the curriculum
  • Guided exam-question walkthroughs
  • 24/7 online tutor support via chat
  • A*/A grade guarantee with money-back policy
  • 3-day free trial with no payment details required
  • AI scoring for speaking and writing
  • Full PTE question-type practice
  • Weekly exam prediction files
  • Vocabulary books and shadowing tools
  • AI study plan and score analysis
  • Web and mobile app sync
Use cases
  • Speeding up literature reviews
  • Automating systematic reviews and meta-analyses
  • Learning about new domains
  • Data extraction in rigorous systematic literature reviews
  • staying current with new research
  • generating cited literature reviews
  • reading and understanding papers
  • verifying academic claims
  • tracking topics and conferences
  • Finding and citing academic sources for a paper
  • Chatting with AI about uploaded research PDFs
  • Importing an existing reference library for a new project
  • Building custom apps on top of academic search via API
  • A Level students preparing for AQA, Edexcel, OCR, or Cambridge International exams
  • GCSE students studying Combined Science
  • Students wanting AI-personalized revision instead of generic textbooks
  • Schools looking to boost student attainment with a supplementary platform
  • Preparing for PTE Academic/Core exams
  • Practicing speaking and writing with AI feedback
  • Studying likely exam questions
  • Tracking prep progress
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