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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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Infranodus
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Knowledge-graph text analysis tool that surfaces topics and content gaps for research, SEO and market analysis.

71K visits/mo
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ThesisAI
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AI research workspace that drafts full academic papers with verified inline citations from up to 500 uploaded sources in a single prompt.

189K visits/mo32K saves
71K visits/mo
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Globe Explorer
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AI discovery and learning engine with Pro plans.

51K visits/mo
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

Per document: from $4

No public pricing

No public pricing

Core features
  • AI-enabled systematic reviews
  • Research reports
  • Upload your own PDFs
  • Quick summaries
  • Source quotes
  • Question answering
  • Text network / knowledge graph visualization
  • Topic modeling and content-gap detection
  • AI insight and question generation
  • GraphRAG and MCP server for LLMs
  • Many import sources (PDF, CSV, YouTube, Google, web)
  • Obsidian plugin and browser extension
  • Full document drafting from one prompt
  • Automated literature search via Semantic Scholar
  • Import and cite up to 500 uploaded papers
  • Inline citation verification
  • Export to PDF, Word, LaTeX, and BibTeX
  • Overleaf integration for manual editing
  • Zotero and Mendeley library import
  • Research on AI governance
  • Analysis of AI risks and opportunities
  • Annual reports and updates
  • Information on AI regulation
  • Event summaries and announcements
Use cases
  • Speeding up literature reviews
  • Automating systematic reviews and meta-analyses
  • Learning about new domains
  • Data extraction in rigorous systematic literature reviews
  • Research and idea generation
  • SEO content-gap analysis
  • Qualitative and market research
  • Researchers producing a literature review quickly
  • Students drafting long papers with verified citations
  • Academics writing in a non-native language
  • Exporting AI-drafted content into LaTeX workflows
  • Understanding public attitudes towards AI
  • Analyzing the impact of AI on great powers
  • Regulating downstream AI developers
  • Managing risks from AI-enabled biological tools
  • Researching topics using AI-driven search results.
  • Accessing enhanced features with a Pro subscription.
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