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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
Rayyan logo
Rayyan
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI-assisted systematic literature review platform for research teams handling screening, deduplication, extraction, and PRISMA reporting.

1.1M visits/mo
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MathGPT
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI math solver and tutor that adds animated video explanations for homework across math, physics and chemistry, for students.

3.6M visits/mo5.5K saves
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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
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
Free: $0 (3 active reviews, 2 free reviewers)
Essential: $8.33/month billed quarterly
Advanced: $13.33/month billed quarterly (9 active reviews, 10 free reviewers)

No public pricing

No public pricing

Free trial available

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
  • Reference import, organization, and deduplication across large libraries
  • AI-powered relevance predictions to prioritize screening
  • Collaborative title/abstract and full-text screening workflows
  • Structured data extraction and PICO framework support
  • Risk of bias assessment tools
  • Auto-generated PRISMA flow diagrams and audit trails
  • Mobile app for screening on the go
  • Step-by-step problem solutions
  • AI-generated animated video explanations
  • Interactive practice quizzes and tests
  • Coverage of math, physics, chemistry and accounting
  • Graphs and diagrams for complex problems
  • Mobile app
  • 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
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
  • Running systematic literature reviews as a research team
  • Speeding up deduplication and abstract screening for large reference sets
  • Producing PRISMA-compliant documentation for publication
  • Coordinating divided screening workloads across reviewers
  • Getting homework solved step by step
  • Watching video explanations of solutions
  • Practicing with generated quizzes
  • Preparing for exams
  • Prepare for school or university exams
  • Get help understanding tough concepts
  • Practice oral exams out loud
  • Study from your own notes
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