Papers, sources and cited answers. 46 tools listed. Lists are never ranked: the order is A to Z, lowest starting price, or free plan first, whichever you pick.
Market-intelligence search for finance and corporate teams, with AI summaries over filings, broker research, news and expert call transcripts. Sold on annual contracts.
Price not publishedFree plan not shown on the vendor page we read
AI research assistant and academic search from Tsinghua and Zhipu, covering hundreds of millions of papers and millions of scholar profiles, with paper reading and review features.
Chat with PDFs and other documents: upload a file and ask questions, get summaries, flashcards, slides and cited answers. Free plan limits you to a few documents a day; Plus removes the limits.
Paid price not foundFree plan: 2 documents per day
Research assistant that searches academic papers, summarises them and extracts data into tables. The free tier covers search and chat with papers; paid tiers add more agent and review usage.
Web search API built for AI agents. It runs its own index and returns ranked pages with text and highlights in one call. Pay-as-you-go with no subscription; search starts at $4 per 1,000 requests.
Paid price not foundFree plan: 10 dollars in credits per month
Upload a research paper, highlight confusing text and get plain-language explanations and follow-up answers. Pro adds advanced models and whole-paper summaries.
Visual workspace with an infinite canvas and a built-in browser for collecting and organizing research, with AI tagging and search. One flat price covers unlimited members.
Literature discovery tool that maps papers by citations and references across a catalogue of 270M+ papers. Pro adds unlimited maps, alerts and Zotero sync.
AI math solver and tutor with step-by-step solutions, photo input, math video lessons and a PDF homework helper. Paid plans are priced per week and start with a 3-day trial.
Software for systematic literature reviews and meta-analysis, with AI-assisted search, screening and data extraction. Priced per user, with lower academic tiers.
Google's research and notes tool. You upload documents, notes or links, then ask questions, get summaries and make audio or video overviews based only on those sources.
Answer engine that searches the web and replies with cited sources. Free tier covers core search; paid plans add more in-depth searches, file uploads and advanced models.
From $10/mo (Education Pro)Free plan: 3 Pro Searches per day
Systematic review and literature screening platform with AI relevance predictions, duplicate detection and PICO extraction. Individual seats plus institutional licences.
Saves your highlights from books and articles and brings them back for review. Reader is its read-it-later app for articles, PDFs, EPUBs, emails and videos.
AI platform built for investment banks, asset managers and private equity: financial research, data room analysis, AI tables and agents that draft models and decks.
Price not publishedFree plan not shown on the vendor page we read
Desktop AI canvas where chats, notes and sources are nodes you can branch and connect, for long research and writing. You can use your own API keys, Claude or ChatGPT subscriptions, or local models.
All-in-one writing suite: AI writer, humanizer, AI content detector, plagiarism checker, rewriter, translator, summarizer and homework helper (Omni). Newer pages show Starter and Premium plans.
Computational knowledge engine for maths, science, data and more. Free for personal use; Pro adds step-by-step solutions, longer computation time and file uploads.
Academic writing workspace with autocomplete, in-text citations, PDF chat, academic search and a plagiarism checker. Pro limits monthly AI actions; Ultra is unlimited and adds frontier models.