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Semantic Scholar
✓ verifiedFree
Free AI-powered academic search engine indexing 236M+ papers, for researchers wanting semantic literature discovery and an augmented reader.
7.9M visits/mo13K saves
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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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Astra AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI tutor for school and university subjects with step-by-step help, exam prep, oral/mock exams and flashcards.
4.4M visits/mo1.7K saves
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ParakeetAI
✓ verifiedFreemium
Real-time AI interview assistant that transcribes questions and generates answers, marketed as undetectable on screen share.
1.2M visits/mo5.4K saves
Pricing
No public 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
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Core features
- ✦AI-powered semantic search across 236M+ papers
- ✦Semantic Reader for augmented, contextual paper reading
- ✦Free public API for paper search and metadata
- ✦Author and topic discovery
- ✦Citation graph exploration
- ✦Beta program for new features
- ✦AI-enabled systematic reviews
- ✦Research reports
- ✦Upload your own PDFs
- ✦Quick summaries
- ✦Source quotes
- ✦Question answering
- ✦Step-by-step subject explanations
- ✦Photo-based math problem solving
- ✦Oral and mock exam practice with grading
- ✦Personalized study plans
- ✦Flashcards from uploaded notes
- ✦Coverage of many subjects, user-created subjects
- ✦real-time question transcription
- ✦AI answers with a choice of GPT or Claude models
- ✦coding interview support
- ✦resume-based personalization
- ✦knowledge base uploads
- ✦invisible during screen share
- ✦AI meeting notes
Use cases
- →Researchers searching scientific literature across disciplines
- →Developers building applications on top of scholarly data via the API
- →Students exploring citation networks for a topic
- →Librarians and academics needing free literature discovery tools
- →Speeding up literature reviews
- →Automating systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- →Learning about new domains
- →Data extraction in rigorous systematic literature reviews
- →Prepare for school or university exams
- →Get help understanding tough concepts
- →Practice oral exams out loud
- →Study from your own notes
- →getting live answers during job interviews
- →coding interview assistance
- →meeting note-taking
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