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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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ThesisAI
✓ verifiedPaid
AI research workspace that drafts full academic papers with verified inline citations from up to 500 uploaded sources in a single prompt.
189K visits/mo32K saves
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Thesify
✓ verifiedPaid
AI reviewer that critiques academic manuscripts and Coauthor agents that search, cite, and draft alongside researchers.
161K visits/mo32K saves
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MagicSchool
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI education platform with 80+ teacher tools and student features, built for schools with privacy controls.
2.2M visits/mo17K saves
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
Per document: from $4
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No public pricing
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Core features
- ✦AI-enabled systematic reviews
- ✦Research reports
- ✦Upload your own PDFs
- ✦Quick summaries
- ✦Source quotes
- ✦Question answering
- ✦Full document drafting from one prompt
- ✦Automated literature search via Semantic Scholar
- ✦Import and cite up to 500 uploaded papers
- ✦Inline citation verification
- ✦Export to PDF, Word, LaTeX, and BibTeX
- ✦Overleaf integration for manual editing
- ✦Zotero and Mendeley library import
- ✦AI manuscript review flagging gaps in argument and evidence
- ✦Citation search across 200+ million academic sources
- ✦Coauthor agents that search, read, and draft alongside users
- ✦Journal recommender and chat support
- ✦Confidentiality guarantee that documents aren't used for AI training
- ✦Video lessons
- ✦Revision notes
- ✦Quizzes
- ✦Flashcards
- ✦Exam-style questions
- ✦Past papers
- ✦80+ AI teacher tools
- ✦50+ safe student tools
- ✦AI instructional coach
- ✦Enterprise-grade security and privacy
- ✦District dashboards and rollout support
- ✦Free for teachers
Use cases
- →Speeding up literature reviews
- →Automating systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- →Learning about new domains
- →Data extraction in rigorous systematic literature reviews
- →Researchers producing a literature review quickly
- →Students drafting long papers with verified citations
- →Academics writing in a non-native language
- →Exporting AI-drafted content into LaTeX workflows
- →Graduate students refining a thesis or dissertation
- →Researchers preparing a manuscript for journal submission
- →Students polishing essays and reports for coursework
- →Getting fast feedback without waiting on a supervisor
- →Preparing for Maths and Science exams at KS3, GCSE, and A-Level.
- →Plan lessons and cut prep time
- →Personalize student learning
- →Roll out AI safely across a district
- →Build student AI literacy
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