Best AI tools for research
13 AI research assistant tools, ranked by how well they fit the task and how popular they are. 11 of them can be tried for free.
Google's AI notebook that grounds every answer in your uploaded documents, PDFs and audio files with source citations.
An AI academic search engine that surfaces the degree of scientific agreement on a question from peer-reviewed papers.
An AI research assistant for literature reviews that searches academic papers and extracts key findings into structured tables.
An AI tool for reading research papers with inline concept explanations, full-paper Q&A and related literature discovery.
An academic research platform that classifies citations as supporting or contrasting, showing the evidential weight behind published claims.
OpenAI's AI assistant for questions, writing, coding and research, with a free tier and paid plans for more capable models.
Anthropic's AI assistant with a long context window, nuanced reasoning and strong performance on writing and analysis.
Google's multimodal AI assistant with live web search and deep integration with Gmail, Docs and Drive.
An AI search assistant that answers questions with cited web sources and supports multi-step deep research reports.
Mistral AI's consumer chat product with fast models, web search, image generation and document upload.