| Resource |
Link |
Features |
Pricing |
| Avidnote |
https://avidnote.com/ |
AI-powered platform that helps with writing and organizing research, and provides options including like paper summarization, citation generation, paper generation in a variety of template styles, critiquing, and proofreading |
Limited free plan, $19 monthly professional plan, $59 monthly premium plan |
| ChatPDF |
https://www.chatpdf.com/ |
Allows users to upload the PDFs of articles and analyze, summarize, and interact with them through simple questions and commands in English |
Currently free, with a limit of three articles per day |
| Connected Papers |
https://www.connectedpapers.com/ |
Citation-based mapping tool that can be used to help find relevant academic papers |
Free option that allows for a limit of 5 graphs per month, $6 monthly academic account, and a $20 monthly business account |
| Consensus |
https://consensus.app/search/ |
Academic search engine that can synthesize research that has been found on a given topic, compose summarizations based off its search results, and also agreement/disagreement percentages of relevant studies for all questions asked in a yes-no format |
A limited free account, $8.99 monthly premium account, a $9.99 per seat small teams account, and an “enterprise” (institutional) account that requires contacting sales for a quote |
| Elicit |
https://elicit.com/ |
Research assistance that lets users customize what they want shown in their search results, such as abstract summary, main findings, methodology, interventions, etc, and also allows papers to be selected for summarization, to have their data extracted, among other options |
Free basic account that doesn’t allow for refills of initial 5,000 credit quota (credits are needed to run workflows), $12 monthly Plus plan ($10 if on yearly plan) that allows for 12,000 monthly credits and the ability to purchase more as needed |
| Inciteful |
https://inciteful.xyz/ |
Citation-based mapping tool that can be used to help find relevant academic papers, and also has a “literature connector” to show how two papers are connected |
Free |
| Litmaps |
https://www.litmaps.com/ |
Citation-based mapping tool that can be used to help find relevant academic papers |
Limited free account, $10 monthly pro account, and a team account that requires a sales quote |
| Notion |
https://www.notion.so/help/guides/category/ai |
Writing assistant that can help with brainstorming, writing, editing or summarizing. |
Free (limited?) account, $8 monthly for small groups account, $15 monthly business account,
Enterprise-level account that requires a sales quote
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| Perplexity |
https://www.perplexity.ai/ |
Search engine that not only provides AI-generated answers, but also sources for the questions that it’s asked (sources can be a mix of academic and non-academic) |
Limited free account, $20 monthly pro account |
| ResearchRabbit |
https://www.researchrabbit.ai/ |
Citation-based mapping tool that can be used to help find relevant academic papers |
Free |
| SciSpace |
https://typeset.io/ |
Finds and summarizes papers |
Free basic plan, $12 monthly premium plan, $8 per person “labs and universities” plan |
| Scite |
https://scite.ai/ |
Citation resource that shows where a paper has been cited, and provides the context of how an article has been discussed in the citing paper – classifies citations as supports, contrasts, and mentions |
One-week free trial, then $20 monthly |
| Semantic Scholar |
https://www.semanticscholar.org/ |
AI-powered search engine that powers several other prominent AI research tools – allow users to interact with search results through asking simple questions |
Free |
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