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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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txyz.ai
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI research assistant for reading, searching, and writing about academic papers, built for researchers managing a personal library.
110K visits/mo
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Open Knowledge Maps
✓ verifiedFree
Free nonprofit tool that visualizes scientific literature as topic maps, clustering papers to speed research discovery.
113K visits/mo1.1K saves
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Up Learn
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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
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
Free: $0/year (up to 100-page file analysis, 5 writing pages)
Pro: $96/year (up to 100-page analysis, full library access)
Ultra: $288/year (up to 300-page analysis, 3x context window)
No public pricing
No public pricing
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
Core features
- ✦AI-enabled systematic reviews
- ✦Research reports
- ✦Upload your own PDFs
- ✦Quick summaries
- ✦Source quotes
- ✦Question answering
- ✦AI-assisted search across academic papers
- ✦Chat-based Q&A over uploaded documents with source citations
- ✦Personal research library with retention limits by plan
- ✦AI writing agent for drafting research-based content
- ✦API access for institutions and businesses
- ✦Adjustable file upload size (up to 300 pages on top tier)
- ✦AI-generated visual maps of research topics
- ✦Clusters papers into themes
- ✦Open-access resource discovery
- ✦Open-source and nonprofit
- ✦Custom integrations/embedding for organizations
- ✦Video lessons
- ✦Revision notes
- ✦Quizzes
- ✦Flashcards
- ✦Exam-style questions
- ✦Past papers
- ✦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
Use cases
- →Speeding up literature reviews
- →Automating systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- →Learning about new domains
- →Data extraction in rigorous systematic literature reviews
- →Finding papers relevant to a research topic
- →Getting quick summaries and answers from long PDFs
- →Managing and revisiting a personal library of research papers
- →Drafting literature-informed writing with AI assistance
- →Integrating paper search/analysis into an institution's own tools via API
- →Get an overview of a research field
- →Find relevant papers faster
- →Identify key concepts in the literature
- →Embed discovery tools in library systems
- →Preparing for Maths and Science exams at KS3, GCSE, and A-Level.
- →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
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