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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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ThesisAI
✓ verifiedPaid
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
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Infranodus
✓ verifiedFreemium
Knowledge-graph text analysis tool that surfaces topics and content gaps for research, SEO and market analysis.
71K visits/mo
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Open Knowledge Maps
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Free nonprofit tool that visualizes scientific literature as topic maps, clustering papers to speed research discovery.
113K visits/mo1.1K 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
Per document: from $4
No public pricing
No public pricing
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦AI-enabled systematic reviews
- ✦Research reports
- ✦Upload your own PDFs
- ✦Quick summaries
- ✦Source quotes
- ✦Question answering
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦AI-generated visual maps of research topics
- ✦Clusters papers into themes
- ✦Open-access resource discovery
- ✦Open-source and nonprofit
- ✦Custom integrations/embedding for organizations
Use cases
- →Speeding up literature reviews
- →Automating systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- →Learning about new domains
- →Data extraction in rigorous systematic literature reviews
- →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
- →Research and idea generation
- →SEO content-gap analysis
- →Qualitative and market research
- →Get an overview of a research field
- →Find relevant papers faster
- →Identify key concepts in the literature
- →Embed discovery tools in library systems
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