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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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Rayyan
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI-assisted systematic literature review platform for research teams handling screening, deduplication, extraction, and PRISMA reporting.
1.1M visits/mo
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Videmak Research AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
Academic research assistant now merged into CitedEvidence, offering AI literature review, citation, and PDF-chat tools for researchers.
205 visits/mo
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Gatsbi AI
✓ verifiedPaid
AI research assistant that surfaces research gaps, drafts cited papers, and runs systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
10K 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: $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)
Free: Free
Unlimited: $8/month, billed yearly
Team: As low as $6.80 per user/month, billed yearly
No public pricing
Free trial available
Pro: $19.99/mo (unlimited usage)
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦AI-enabled systematic reviews
- ✦Research reports
- ✦Upload your own PDFs
- ✦Quick summaries
- ✦Source quotes
- ✦Question answering
- ✦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
- ✦Document Writer
- ✦Reference Manager
- ✦File Annotator
- ✦AI Assistant (powered by Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT)
- ✦Multi-agent deep-reasoning research across 200+ AI agents
- ✦Search of 300M+ academic articles and journals
- ✦Chat with PDFs to extract answers from papers
- ✦Automated citation generation across many citation styles
- ✦AI writing editor for rewriting and refining academic text
- ✦Personal library for organizing papers, notes and citations
- ✦Research idea discovery with originality scoring
- ✦One-click research paper drafting with real citations and figures
- ✦Systematic literature review and meta-analysis automation
- ✦Integrated Deep Research Agent for evidence gathering
- ✦Patent disclosure drafting in 11 languages
- ✦Windows, macOS and web apps
Use cases
- →Speeding up literature reviews
- →Automating systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- →Learning about new domains
- →Data extraction in rigorous systematic literature reviews
- →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
- →Writing research papers
- →Managing and organizing research references
- →Annotating research files
- →Conducting literature reviews
- →Taking notes and organizing research ideas
- →Literature review and proposal writing for graduate students
- →Citation management for research papers
- →Extracting insights from PDF papers via chat
- →Organizing and searching a personal research library
- →Generating novel research ideas
- →Writing academic manuscripts
- →Conducting systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- →Drafting patent disclosures
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