AI research assistant
Editorial picks for "best ai research assistant".
5 tools
Elicit
RAG · Claude Opus 4.5
AI research assistant that searches, screens, and extracts data from 138M+ academic papers at scale.
Freemium· Free tier; paid Plus, Pro, and Enterprise plansliterature-reviewsystematic-review
Genei
RAG · GPT-3 (per public site)
AI research assistant that summarizes PDFs and web pages and answers questions across your document library.
Freemium· 14-day free trial; Basic £3.99/mo; Pro £15.99/mopdf-summarizationresearch-assistant
SciSpace
RAG · Multi-model
AI research assistant that turns dense PDFs and literature reviews into searchable, citation-backed answers.
Freemium· Free tier; Premium $12/mo; Advanced $70/mo; Teams $20/user/moliterature-reviewchat-with-pdf
Scite
RAG · Multi-model
AI research assistant that grades citations as supporting, contrasting, or mentioning across 1.6B citation statements.
Freemium· Free tier; Personal ~$20/user/mo ($12 annual); Organization customliterature-reviewcitation-analysis
Sourcely
Writing
AI source-finder that scans your draft and pulls citable academic papers to back each claim.
Freemium· Free tier; Ultra $19/mo, Max $39/mo (annual)academic-citationssource-discovery