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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
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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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Connected Papers
✓ verifiedFreemium

Widely used visual tool for exploring related academic papers.

873K visits/mo
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Iris AI
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Enterprise AI knowledge platform that unifies complex regulated-industry data into trusted, AI-ready intelligence for R&D and agents.

56K 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
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)

Free trial available

Free: USD 0
Academic: USD 3 /month*
Business: USD 10 /month*
Academic Group: 3 USD / seat / month*
Business Group: 10 USD / seat / month*
Academic Library: Request a Quote

No public pricing

Per document: from $4
Core 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
  • Visual graph generation of related academic papers
  • Discovery of prior and derivative works
  • Identification of important and relevant papers
  • Exploration of research field dynamics
  • Axion for turning data chaos into AI-ready intelligence
  • Neuralith for converting enterprise knowledge into an AI engine
  • RSpace for precision intelligence in complex R&D
  • Data unification across fragmented enterprise sources
  • Built for regulated, compliance-driven industries
  • 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
Use cases
  • 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
  • Getting a visual overview of a new academic field
  • Ensuring no key papers are missed in a field with a large volume of new publications
  • Creating a bibliography for a thesis
  • Discovering relevant prior and derivative works
  • Grounding enterprise AI agents in trusted internal knowledge
  • Accelerating R&D literature and data analysis
  • Unifying siloed regulated data for AI applications
  • 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
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