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Perplexity is an answer engine that searches the open web in real time and returns concise responses with inline citations.
Free planAndroidiOSWeb
Best AI Research Assistants in 2026
AI research assistants can support work that involves finding, reviewing, and organizing sources. Compare deep research mode, source access, and source citations to see how each option handles research material and its references. File uploads and source limits may also matter for the material you need to work with, and a team workspace is worth checking if you collaborate. Perplexity, Genspark Design, and Liner are…
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Consensus is an AI workspace and academic search engine for scientific research, available on the web, Android, iOS, and as an extension.
Free planAndroidiOSWeb
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Liner combines AI search, academic research, and writing tools for professional workflows.
Free planAndroidiOSWeb
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SciSpace
SciSpace is a platform for discovering, analyzing, and writing scientific literature.
Free planAndroidiOSWebAPI8.1From $96 a year - 5
Gab AI Research Assistant
Gab AI Research Assistant creates structured reports from a topic and inputs such as audience, preferred sources, research depth, and focus questions.
Free planAndroidiOSWebAPI8.0From $16.67 a month - 6
Fabric
Fabric is a workspace for files, clients, notes, meetings, research, and AI, bringing connected information and AI agents into one place.
AndroidiOSWebAPI7.9From $8 a month - 7
You.com
You.com describes its current offering as web search APIs for developers building RAG systems, AI agents, knowledge bases, and data-driven applications.
Free planAndroidiOSWebAPI7.6Free plan - 8
Genspark Design
Genspark Design turns conversational descriptions into designs, including UI prototypes, websites, posters, animations, presentations, marketing assets, and documents.
Free planAndroidiOSWebLinux7.5From $19.99 a month - 9
Scholarly
Scholarly is a browser-based AI workspace that turns source material into study, research, and work outputs.
Free planWeb7.5From $144 a year - 10
Folio
Folio is a workspace for research, reading, writing, citations, and proof of work.
Free planWebAPIExtension7.3From $9.99 a month - 11
Felo AI Research
Felo AI Research is a research agent that breaks a topic into sub-questions, searches for material and synthesizes a report.
Free planAndroidiOSWebAPI7.2From $149.99 a year - 12
Gemini Notebook
Gemini Notebook is a web and mobile service for gathering material through web search, file uploads, app integrations, and a team workspace.
Free planAndroidiOSWeb7.1From $9.99 a month - 13
Elicit
Elicit is an AI research assistant designed to help researchers work more evidence-first.
Free planWebAPI7.0From $11 a month - 14
Praxa
Praxa is an AI agent for people and teams that can remember how work gets done and run standing goals as background missions.
Free planiOSWeb7.0From $29.99 a month - 15
Innogath
Innogath is an AI research workspace that turns questions, files, links, and follow-up conversations into structured reports, citations, visual data…
Free planWebmacOSWindows6.9Free plan - 16
Scite
Scite helps researchers discover and evaluate scientific literature by showing how later studies cite a paper.
Free planWebAPIExtension6.9From $14 a month - 17
Undermind
Undermind is an AI co-researcher for finding and evaluating scientific literature.
Free planWebAPIExtension6.8From $15 a month - 18
Embarke
Embarke creates audit-oriented research syntheses for medical writers, regulatory teams, and health technology assessment professionals.
Free planWebSelf-hosted6.6From $39 a month - 19
Kimi Deep Research
Kimi Deep Research is a research feature that defines a topic’s scope, prepares a plan, searches sources and produces a cited report.
Free planAndroidiOSWebExtension6.6Free plan - 20
LeapSpace
LeapSpace is a web-based, AI-assisted research workspace for exploring scholarly literature and supporting research workflows.
Free planWeb6.6From £250 a year - 21
Rabbit Hole
Rabbit Hole is a macOS research assistant that searches public sources and creates reports with citations.
Free planmacOS6.6From $29 a month - 22
Iris.ai
WebAPISelf-hosted6.1 - 23
Local Deep Research
Local Deep Research is a free AI research assistant that uses multiple language models and search engines to create reports with citations.
WebAPILinuxmacOS6.1 - 24
Arclyne
Windows6.0$49 one-time - 25
CLARA
CLARA is a free web-based AI research assistant for exploring, searching, and analyzing archival documents on corporate litigation and climate accountability.
Free planWeb6.0Free plan