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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
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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
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The Rundown AI
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Daily AI newsletter that condenses AI news, tool spotlights, and practical use cases into a five-minute read for over two million readers.

630K visits/mo
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ResearchRabbit
✓ verifiedFreemium

Free-first literature discovery tool that visually maps citation networks and related papers to speed up systematic reviews.

1.2M visits/mo79 saves
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Rayyan
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI-assisted systematic literature review platform for research teams handling screening, deduplication, extraction, and PRISMA reporting.

1.1M 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
Per document: from $4

No public pricing

Free: $0/month (unlimited searches across 310M+ articles)
ResearchRabbit+ Annual: $10/month
ResearchRabbit+ Monthly: $12.5/month
Free: $0 (3 active reviews, 2 free reviewers)
Essential: $8.33/month billed quarterly
Advanced: $13.33/month billed quarterly (9 active reviews, 10 free reviewers)
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
  • Daily AI news digest delivered by email
  • Practical application tips alongside each story
  • Exclusive interviews with AI industry leaders
  • AI University with guides, tools directory, and courses
  • Article archive on AI, tech, and robotics
  • Citation and author network exploration from a seed paper
  • Interactive visualizations of how topics relate over time
  • Unlimited library organization and collection sharing
  • Zotero integration for syncing saved papers
  • Up to 300 seed articles supported on the paid tier
  • Alerts for new related research
  • Reference import, organization, and deduplication across large libraries
  • AI-powered relevance predictions to prioritize screening
  • Collaborative title/abstract and full-text screening workflows
  • Structured data extraction and PICO framework support
  • Risk of bias assessment tools
  • Auto-generated PRISMA flow diagrams and audit trails
  • Mobile app for screening on the go
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
  • Professionals wanting a quick daily AI news briefing
  • Readers seeking practical ways to apply new AI tools
  • Learners looking for structured AI courses and guides
  • Following exclusive interviews with AI leaders
  • Building a systematic literature review efficiently
  • Discovering research gaps in an unfamiliar field
  • Tracking new publications related to saved papers
  • Visualizing how a body of research has evolved
  • Running systematic literature reviews as a research team
  • Speeding up deduplication and abstract screening for large reference sets
  • Producing PRISMA-compliant documentation for publication
  • Coordinating divided screening workloads across reviewers
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