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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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Algor Education
✓ verifiedFreemium
Algor Education turns notes, docs, and media into AI-generated concept maps, flashcards, quizzes, and study notes.
1.7M visits/mo
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Cogniroot
✓ verifiedFreemium
Online exam and course platform with AI question generation, secure AI proctoring, quizzes, flashcards, and certificates.
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 (concept maps, up to 15k characters)
Beginner: €2.99/mo
Base: €5.49/mo
Pro: €7.99/mo
Free trial available
Starter: Free (€0)
Business Essentials: €35/mo
Business: €55/mo
Education Individual: €29/mo
AI Starter add-on: €9/mo
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
- ✦AI concept and mind maps
- ✦AI flashcards and quizzes
- ✦AI study notes/summaries
- ✦Transcriptions from audio/video
- ✦Prebuilt and custom templates
- ✦Multi-language support
- ✦AI question and exam generation from documents
- ✦AI proctoring (screen lock, multi-person and device detection)
- ✦Course, quiz, and flashcard builders
- ✦Auto-issued branded certificates
- ✦SCORM 1.2/2004 and LTI 1.3 support
- ✦Learner CRM and analytics
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
- →Turning notes into visual study aids
- →Creating teaching materials
- →Exam revision and self-study
- →Create and deliver secure online exams
- →Generate quizzes and courses from documents
- →Run proctored certification tests
- →Build multilingual training content
- →Track learners and issue certificates
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