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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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txyz.ai
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI research assistant for reading, searching, and writing about academic papers, built for researchers managing a personal library.

110K visits/mo
81K 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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Infranodus
✓ verifiedFreemium

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

71K 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
Free: $0/year (up to 100-page file analysis, 5 writing pages)
Pro: $96/year (up to 100-page analysis, full library access)
Ultra: $288/year (up to 300-page analysis, 3x context window)

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Core features
  • AI-enabled systematic reviews
  • Research reports
  • Upload your own PDFs
  • Quick summaries
  • Source quotes
  • Question answering
  • AI-assisted search across academic papers
  • Chat-based Q&A over uploaded documents with source citations
  • Personal research library with retention limits by plan
  • AI writing agent for drafting research-based content
  • API access for institutions and businesses
  • Adjustable file upload size (up to 300 pages on top tier)
  • Scholar Search
  • 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
  • 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
Use cases
  • Speeding up literature reviews
  • Automating systematic reviews and meta-analyses
  • Learning about new domains
  • Data extraction in rigorous systematic literature reviews
  • Finding papers relevant to a research topic
  • Getting quick summaries and answers from long PDFs
  • Managing and revisiting a personal library of research papers
  • Drafting literature-informed writing with AI assistance
  • Integrating paper search/analysis into an institution's own tools via API
  • Grounding enterprise AI agents in trusted internal knowledge
  • Accelerating R&D literature and data analysis
  • Unifying siloed regulated data for AI applications
  • Research and idea generation
  • SEO content-gap analysis
  • Qualitative and market research
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