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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
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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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ThesisAI
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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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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

Per document: from $4
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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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