🔬 25 Best Research AI Tools

Web research, academic search, and data extraction. Browse our curated list of 25 research AI tools — every entry includes pricing, integrations, and a direct link to the product. Updated continuously as new tools launch.

Perplexity

AI-powered search engine that answers questions with cited sources and follow-up queries.

$20/mo · Free plan available

Elicit

AI research assistant that finds, summarizes, and extracts data from academic papers.

$12/mo · Free plan available

Consensus

AI-powered search engine for scientific research with evidence-backed answers from papers.

$9/mo · Free plan available

Exa

AI search engine and API designed for finding specific web content by meaning, not keywords.

Free tier · Pay-as-you-go

Tavily

Search API optimized for AI agents with real-time web data, summaries, and citations.

Pay-as-you-go · Free tier available

Browse AI

No-code web scraping and monitoring tool that extracts data from any website.

$48.75/mo · Free plan available

Apify

Web scraping and automation platform with 2,000+ ready-made actors and custom scraper development.

$49/mo · Free plan available

Firecrawl

API that turns websites into LLM-ready markdown data for AI applications.

$19/mo · Free tier available

Glean

Enterprise AI search and work assistant that finds information across all your company's apps.

Custom pricing · Demo available

You.com

AI-powered search engine with conversational answers, citations, and customizable modes.

$15/mo · Free plan available

Andi Search

Ad-free AI search engine that shows answers instead of links with visual results.

Free · Completely free

Phind

AI search engine for developers with code-aware answers and technical documentation.

$17/mo · Free plan available

Metaphor

Neural search engine that finds content by meaning and intent rather than keywords.

API pricing · Free credits

Kagi

Premium ad-free search engine with AI assistant integration and customizable results.

$10/mo · Free trial

Supermemory

Your personal AI memory that remembers everything you read, save, or write.

$10/mo · Free tier available

ChatPDF

Chat with any PDF document — ask questions and get instant answers with citations.

$5/mo · Free for small PDFs

Humata

AI for professional documents — ask questions across multiple PDFs with citations.

$9.99/mo · Free plan available

Julius AI

AI data analyst that analyzes your files, creates visualizations, and answers questions.

$17.99/mo · Free plan available

Tools by Taskade

Enable your agents with the right set of tools to get the job done: web search (allow the agent to browse the web), WolframAlpha (enhance th...

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Ai-Writing-Survey

This repository contains the results of a survey about the use of AI for academic writing. The survey includes responses from 24 particip…

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Ethics_And_Policy_Resources_For_Pennaitech

This collection of resources offers a comprehensive overview of key policies, initiatives, and literature resources related to various aspec...

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Worldwide_Ai-Ethics

Worldwide AI Ethics (WAIE) is a systematic literature review done by AIRES researchers at PUCRS

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Llms-Learning

A repository sharing the literatures about large language models

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Blockoli

Blockoli is a high-performance tool for code indexing, embedding generation and semantic search tool for use with LLMs

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Txtai

💡 All-in-one open-source embeddings database for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows

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