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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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SciSummary
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI tool that summarizes scientific papers into abstract, methods, results, and conclusion sections, with figure and citation support.

74K visits/mo162K saves
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Brilliant
✓ verifiedFreemium

Interactive learning app with an AI tutor for math, coding, science and data-visual, adaptive lessons for all ages.

2.6M visits/mo
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gizmo.ai
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI study app that turns notes, PDFs, YouTube and slides into quizzes and flashcards to help students revise.

5.4M visits/mo10K 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 Trial: $0 for first 7 days (30,000 words, 5 figures, 100 chat messages)
Student: $0 for first month (promo code, unlimited use)
Pro: $4/month billed as $48/year (unlimited summaries, figures, chat, and searches)

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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
  • Structured section-by-section paper summarization
  • Bulk and multi-paper summarization and comparison
  • Chat with figures for data interpretation
  • Folder and tag-based library organization
  • Semantic search across indexed documents on Pro
  • ChatGPT connector integration
  • Personal AI tutor (Koji)
  • Visual, interactive lessons
  • Adaptive practice based on mastery
  • Courses in math, CS, science and data
  • Gamified streaks, levels and daily goals
  • iOS and Android apps
  • AI-generated quizzes
  • Flashcard maker
  • Create flashcards from PDFs, notes and slides
  • YouTube and PowerPoint summarizers
  • Spaced-repetition study
  • Mobile app
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
  • Students digesting dense research papers quickly
  • Researchers doing literature reviews across many papers
  • Academics organizing a personal paper library
  • Learning math and coding by doing
  • Getting adaptive tutoring outside class
  • Building STEM intuition
  • Daily skill practice
  • Revise for school and university exams
  • Turn notes and PDFs into flashcards
  • Study with AI-generated quizzes
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