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Shows the leading reviewed AI Research Assistants brand for every public prompt and its cross-engine consistency.
Compare one brand with up to three competitors across the exact public prompt × engine matrix behind this leaderboard.
| Brand | Presence | Vs. primary | Selected share | Mentions | Cited answers | Owned URL signals | Engine breadth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elicitelicit.com | 43.8%21/48 | +22.9 pp | 43.8% | 47 | 2 | 2 | 3/3 |
| Consensusconsensus.app | 31.3%15/48 | +10.4 pp | 31.3% | 36 | 1 | 1 | 3/3 |
| Perplexityperplexity.ai | 20.8%10/48 | BASE | 20.8% | 40 | 0 | 0 | 3/3 |
| scitescite.ai | 4.2%2/48 | -16.7 pp | 4.2% | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2/3 |
16 prompts · 48 immutable answer hashes · empty cells mean no compared brand was detected.
| Public prompt | OpenAIopenai/gpt-4o-mini | Anthropicanthropic/claude-haiku-4-5 | Geminigoogle/gemini-2.5-flash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 Which AI research assistants are best for finding, synthesizing, and citing reliable sources across complex questions?recommendation | PerplexityElicit | PerplexityElicitConsensus | ElicitConsensus |
| 02 Recommend an AI research assistant for scientific literature search, paper screening, evidence extraction, synthesis, and traceable citations.recommendation | ElicitConsensus | ElicitConsensus | Elicit · C1scite · C1 |
| 03 Which AI research assistants are strongest for a systematic review with reproducible queries, inclusion criteria, data extraction, and audit trails?recommendation | Elicit | No selected brand | Elicit |
| 04 Recommend an AI research assistant for company, market, competitor, and industry research using current public sources with citations.recommendation | No selected brand | PerplexityElicit · C1Consensus · C1scite · C1 | No selected brand |
| 05 Which AI research assistants are best for commercial due diligence that must distinguish filings, company claims, estimates, and third-party evidence?recommendation | No selected brand | No selected brand | No selected brand |
| 06 Recommend an enterprise AI research assistant with private-data controls, team workspaces, source permissions, administration, and compliance.recommendation | No selected brand | Perplexity | No selected brand |
| 07 Which AI research assistants are strongest for current web research that requires broad retrieval, source diversity, recency, and cited synthesis?recommendation | ElicitConsensus | PerplexityElicitConsensus | ElicitConsensus |
| 08 Recommend an affordable AI research assistant for a student who needs source discovery, paper explanations, citation checking, and note organization.recommendation | Elicit | ElicitConsensus | No selected brand |
| 09 Compare AI research assistants on retrieval coverage, source quality, citation accuracy, synthesis, exports, collaboration, privacy, and price.commercial | ElicitConsensus | PerplexityElicitConsensus | PerplexityElicitConsensus |
| 10 Create a reproducible citation-accuracy test for AI research assistants covering source existence, claim support, quotation, attribution, and recency.commercial | No selected brand | No selected brand | No selected brand |
| 11 Design a retrieval benchmark for AI research assistants using known-item search, long-tail evidence, conflicting sources, dates, and paywalled material.commercial | No selected brand | No selected brand | No selected brand |
| 12 How should buyers compare AI research assistants on completeness, uncertainty, contradiction handling, evidence weighting, and unsupported claims?commercial | No selected brand | No selected brand | No selected brand |
| 13 Compare AI research assistant pricing across seats, searches, reports, document uploads, premium sources, exports, APIs, and enterprise controls.commercial | ElicitConsensus | PerplexityElicitConsensus | PerplexityElicitConsensus |
| 14 Compare AI research assistants on uploaded-document privacy, model training, retention, permissions, encryption, residency, audit logs, and deletion.commercial | No selected brand | Perplexity | No selected brand |
| 15 Which criteria expose library, annotation, citation, report, workspace, source-access, export, and API lock-in in an AI research assistant?commercial | No selected brand | No selected brand | No selected brand |
| 16 Create a shortlist of AI research assistant vendors for an evidence-heavy organization replacing ad hoc search and manual research briefs.commercial | No selected brand | Elicit | No selected brand |
Hostnames are derived from validated public HTTP(S) URLs, not provider-supplied domain labels.
| Source hostname | Cited answers | Distinct URLs | Engine breadth | Best position | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| paperguide.ai | 13 | 9 | 3 | #1 | Open source ↗ |
| youtube.com | 12 | 11 | 3 | #1 | Open source ↗ |
| reddit.com | 11 | 9 | 3 | #2 | Open source ↗ |
| listenlabs.ai | 10 | 5 | 2 | #1 | Open source ↗ |
| atlasworkspace.ai | 10 | 5 | 3 | #2 | Open source ↗ |
| facebook.com | 5 | 5 | 3 | #1 | Open source ↗ |
| medium.com | 5 | 5 | 3 | #2 | Open source ↗ |
| linkedin.com | 5 | 4 | 3 | #2 | Open source ↗ |
| litmaps.com | 4 | 1 | 2 | #1 | Open source ↗ |
| scispace.com | 3 | 3 | 2 | #1 | Open source ↗ |
| arxiv.org | 3 | 3 | 2 | #2 | Open source ↗ |
| thesify.ai | 3 | 2 | 2 | #1 | Open source ↗ |
| hebbia.com | 3 | 2 | 3 | #2 | Open source ↗ |
| clarivate.com | 3 | 1 | 1 | #1 | Open source ↗ |
| infoguides.gmu.edu | 3 | 1 | 3 | #1 | Open source ↗ |
| studytexter.com | 3 | 1 | 2 | #1 | Open source ↗ |
| teach.its.uiowa.edu | 3 | 1 | 2 | #2 | Open source ↗ |
| cypris.ai | 3 | 1 | 2 | #4 | Open source ↗ |
| researchgate.net | 2 | 2 | 2 | #1 | Open source ↗ |
| sciencedirect.com | 2 | 2 | 2 | #1 | Open source ↗ |
Derives prompt-level brand leaders, cross-engine brand-set disagreement, and leading-brand owned-citation opportunity from the complete public Rank.ai benchmark cohort.
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| public prompt brand presence events | 13 | 0% | — | 1 | available |
| public prompt citation urls | 20 | 0% | — | 1 | available |
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| public prompt engine disagreement | 61.309524 | 0% | — | 1 | available |
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| public prompt leading brand consensus | 100 | 100% | 100 | 1 | available |
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| public prompt leading brand owned citation coverage | 0 | 0% | — | 1 | available |
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| public prompt leading brand owned citation gap | 100 | 0% | — | 1 | available |
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