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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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Talkpal
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI language coach offering conversational practice with real-time feedback across 130+ languages.

1.5M visits/mo9.9K saves

Free AI-assisted career aptitude quiz that matches personality and skills to suggested tech career paths.

1.6M visits/mo1.9K 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
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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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
  • Conversational practice with AI tutors
  • Real-time personalized feedback and corrections
  • Dialogue, sentence, word, call, photo, and debate modes
  • Voice interaction with natural AI voices
  • Grammar courses and language certificates
  • 130+ languages on web, iOS, and Android
  • AI-assisted career matching using validated psychological models
  • Instant results with no account required
  • Personality analysis alongside skill-based career matches
  • Ranked list of best-fit career paths
  • Job role overview summaries for each match
  • 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
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
  • Self-learners practicing conversational fluency
  • Business teams training employees in new languages
  • Students supplementing classroom language education
  • People considering a career change into tech seeking data-driven direction
  • Students unsure which tech role fits their strengths
  • Job seekers wanting language to explain their strengths to employers or mentors
  • Learning math and coding by doing
  • Getting adaptive tutoring outside class
  • Building STEM intuition
  • Daily skill practice
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