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Compare AI research assistant pricing across seats, searches, reports, document uploads, premium sources, exports, APIs, and enterprise controls.

168.056 index_pointsprompt volatility index

Ahead of second place: 18.1
Held by the top three: 41%
Middle of the board: 68
Below half the leader: 8 of 16

Highest 168.056 index_pointsMiddle 68

Rank 1one bar per published rowRank 16

winner changed: 1 on 8 of 16 rows · 2 checks behind each row · 100% confidence across rows.

AI research Assistants prompt Volatility current rankings
Rank	Name	Prompt volatility index	Consensus absolute change	Disagreement absolute change	Why
01	Compare AI research assistant pricing across seats, searches, reports, document uploads, premium sources, exports, APIs, and enterprise controls.	168.056 index_points	100	36.1	This rank Run it
02	Design a retrieval benchmark for AI research assistants using known-item search, long-tail evidence, conflicting sources, dates, and paywalled material.	150 index_points	33.3	66.7	This rank Run it
03	Which AI research assistants are strongest for current web research that requires broad retrieval, source diversity, recency, and cited synthesis?	130 index_points	33.3	26.7	This rank Run it
04	Which AI research assistants are best for finding, synthesizing, and citing reliable sources across complex questions?	126.111 index_points	33.3	18.9	This rank Run it
05	Recommend an affordable AI research assistant for a student who needs source discovery, paper explanations, citation checking, and note organization.	125 index_points	33.3	16.7	This rank Run it
06	Recommend an enterprise AI research assistant with private-data controls, team workspaces, source permissions, administration, and compliance.	116.667 index_points	0	33.3	This rank Run it
07	Compare AI research assistants on uploaded-document privacy, model training, retention, permissions, encryption, residency, audit logs, and deletion.	100 index_points	0	0	This rank Run it
08	Create a shortlist of AI research assistant vendors for an evidence-heavy organization replacing ad hoc search and manual research briefs.	100 index_points	0	0	This rank Run it
09	Compare AI research assistants on retrieval coverage, source quality, citation accuracy, synthesis, exports, collaboration, privacy, and price.	36.012 index_points	66.7	5.4	This rank Run it
10	Recommend an AI research assistant for scientific literature search, paper screening, evidence extraction, synthesis, and traceable citations.	25 index_points	0	50	Showing Run it
11	Recommend an AI research assistant for company, market, competitor, and industry research using current public sources with citations.	16.667 index_points	33.3	0	This rank Run it
12	Create a reproducible citation-accuracy test for AI research assistants covering source existence, claim support, quotation, attribution, and recency.	0 index_points	0	0	This rank Run it
13	Which AI research assistants are best for commercial due diligence that must distinguish filings, company claims, estimates, and third-party evidence?	0 index_points	0	0	This rank Run it
14	Which criteria expose library, annotation, citation, report, workspace, source-access, export, and API lock-in in an AI research assistant?	0 index_points	0	0	This rank Run it
15	How should buyers compare AI research assistants on completeness, uncertainty, contradiction handling, evidence weighting, and unsupported claims?	0 index_points	0	0	This rank Run it
16	Which AI research assistants are strongest for a systematic review with reproducible queries, inclusion criteria, data extraction, and audit trails?	0 index_points	0	0	This rank Run it

Primary brandPrompt intentAnswer enginePrompt contains

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Answer presence16.7%8/48 filtered answers mention or cite Perplexity

Selected-set share30.8%Share of answer-presences among the compared brands, not market share

Owned citation answers00 answer-level URL signals on reviewed owned domains

Engine breadth2/3Engines with at least one observed presence

Filtered competitive answer-presence comparison
Brand	Presence	Vs. primary	Selected share	Mentions	Cited answers	Owned URL signals	Engine breadth
Elicitelicit.com	22.9%11/48	+6.3 pp	42.3%	19	3	4	3/3
Perplexityperplexity.ai	16.7%8/48	BASE	30.8%	12	0	0	2/3
Consensusconsensus.app	10.4%5/48	-6.2 pp	19.2%	5	0	0	2/3
scitescite.ai	4.2%2/48	-12.5 pp	7.7%	0	2	2	1/3

ANSWER-LEVEL OBSERVATIONS

Prompt × engine matrix

16 prompts · 48 immutable answer hashes · empty cells mean no compared brand was detected.

Brand presence by public prompt and answer engine
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	PerplexityElicitConsensusscite · C1 6 source URLs`a02b36fa`	No selected brand 0 source URLs`64f6855d`	PerplexityElicitConsensus 8 source URLs`6f2848a8`
02 Recommend an AI research assistant for scientific literature search, paper screening, evidence extraction, synthesis, and traceable citations.recommendation	Elicit · C2 5 source URLs`20907d80`	Elicit 0 source URLs`3ef98f5d`	Elicit · C1 8 source URLs`9665a335`
03 Which AI research assistants are strongest for a systematic review with reproducible queries, inclusion criteria, data extraction, and audit trails?recommendation	Elicit 4 source URLs`ad85ef10`	Elicit 0 source URLs`31ab6612`	No selected brand 0 source URLs`8984db0a`
04 Recommend an AI research assistant for company, market, competitor, and industry research using current public sources with citations.recommendation	Perplexity 6 source URLs`d5aca091`	No selected brand 0 source URLs`a7590452`	Perplexity 8 source URLs`fec13cd2`
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 6 source URLs`cb37d81b`	No selected brand 0 source URLs`c174811c`	No selected brand 8 source URLs`0fcd15dc`
06 Recommend an enterprise AI research assistant with private-data controls, team workspaces, source permissions, administration, and compliance.recommendation	No selected brand 6 source URLs`8d9a3767`	No selected brand 0 source URLs`9fbc902a`	No selected brand 8 source URLs`1d2af08a`
07 Which AI research assistants are strongest for current web research that requires broad retrieval, source diversity, recency, and cited synthesis?recommendation	PerplexityElicitConsensus 6 source URLs`c9c6938f`	No selected brand 0 source URLs`e74a1604`	PerplexityElicitConsensus 7 source URLs`0a94c7a3`
08 Recommend an affordable AI research assistant for a student who needs source discovery, paper explanations, citation checking, and note organization.recommendation	scite · C1 6 source URLs`b7918b9d`	No selected brand 0 source URLs`ff91d95b`	No selected brand 8 source URLs`a94ac626`
09 Compare AI research assistants on retrieval coverage, source quality, citation accuracy, synthesis, exports, collaboration, privacy, and price.commercial	No selected brand 0 source URLs`f878efc1`	No selected brand 0 source URLs`d39bf2d2`	PerplexityElicitConsensus 7 source URLs`f56bfd78`
10 Create a reproducible citation-accuracy test for AI research assistants covering source existence, claim support, quotation, attribution, and recency.commercial	No selected brand 0 source URLs`06a15cf0`	No selected brand 0 source URLs`959f1f3b`	No selected brand 0 source URLs`dc38bce4`
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 0 source URLs`97530899`	No selected brand 0 source URLs`7f80b04b`	No selected brand 0 source URLs`f4cb48da`
12 How should buyers compare AI research assistants on completeness, uncertainty, contradiction handling, evidence weighting, and unsupported claims?commercial	No selected brand 7 source URLs`09f92639`	No selected brand 0 source URLs`ad984f0d`	No selected brand 9 source URLs`a99e882d`
13 Compare AI research assistant pricing across seats, searches, reports, document uploads, premium sources, exports, APIs, and enterprise controls.commercial	No selected brand 6 source URLs`8fc8fe6a`	No selected brand 0 source URLs`c8f1b4da`	No selected brand 4 source URLs`9ac462d4`
14 Compare AI research assistants on uploaded-document privacy, model training, retention, permissions, encryption, residency, audit logs, and deletion.commercial	No selected brand 6 source URLs`fc95d794`	No selected brand 0 source URLs`d325e24c`	No selected brand 2 source URLs`8310f04a`
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 1 source URLs`f2b94fe6`	No selected brand 0 source URLs`901ed988`	No selected brand 1 source URLs`0ec04094`
16 Create a shortlist of AI research assistant vendors for an evidence-heavy organization replacing ad hoc search and manual research briefs.commercial	PerplexityElicit · C1 5 source URLs`cc6c2448`	No selected brand 0 source URLs`fa804489`	No selected brand 9 source URLs`a660984a`

STRUCTURED CITATION LEDGER

Sources shaping this filtered view

Hostnames are derived from validated public HTTP(S) URLs, not provider-supplied domain labels.

Validated citation sources in filtered answers
Source hostname	Cited answers	Distinct URLs	Engine breadth	Best position
reddit.com ↗	10	7	2	#1
kimi.ai ↗	8	3	2	#1
paperguide.ai ↗	7	5	2	#1
atlasworkspace.ai ↗	7	3	2	#1
litmaps.com ↗	5	1	2	#1
facebook.com ↗	4	4	2	#2
linkedin.com ↗	4	4	2	#7
editage.us ↗	4	1	2	#1
clarivate.com ↗	4	1	2	#4
sciencedirect.com ↗	3	3	2	#1
elicit.com ↗	3	2	2	#1
rank.ai ↗	3	2	2	#1
listenlabs.ai ↗	3	2	2	#3
openai.com ↗	2	4	2	#1
researchgate.net ↗	2	2	1	#1
simular.ai ↗	2	2	2	#3
gosearch.ai ↗	2	2	2	#4
thesify.ai ↗	2	2	2	#5
choice360.org ↗	2	1	2	#1
mdpi.com ↗	2	1	2	#1

PUBLIC-BENCHMARK PRIVACY BOUNDARY

This report contains only code-reviewed public prompts, deterministic brand counts, answer hashes, and validated structured citation URLs. Full model answers are neither stored nor published here. No customer, organization, or private tracked-prompt data is included.

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Published rank: #10
Score: 25 index_points
Sample size: 2

100% confidence · 100% component coverage · as of Aug 25, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC

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Components contributing to Recommend an AI research assistant for scientific literature search, paper screening, evidence extraction, synthesis, and traceable citations.'s rank
Component	Value	Weight	Contribution
public prompt consensus absolute change	0	0%	—
public prompt disagreement absolute change	50	0%	—
public prompt volatility index	25	100%	25
public prompt winner changed	0	0%	—

WHY IT MOVED

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PRIMARY EVIDENCE

Source trail

4 public records

Absolute consensus changepublic prompt consensus absolute change · observed Aug 25, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC0 percentage_points100% confidence
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Rank.ai AI Research Assistants Prompt Benchmark
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Absolute disagreement changepublic prompt disagreement absolute change · observed Aug 25, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC50 percentage_points100% confidence
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Rank.ai AI Research Assistants Prompt Benchmark
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{"promptSlug":"ai-research-scientific-literature","currentSnapshotId":"094ed367-ca17-4245-939d-a437c87cb26c","previousSnapshotId":"95899004-1cae-44ec-9e3e-a9a060b5577f"}
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Prompt volatility indexpublic prompt volatility index · observed Aug 25, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC25 index_points100% confidence
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Rank.ai AI Research Assistants Prompt Benchmark
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Leading brand changedpublic prompt winner changed · observed Aug 25, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC0 boolean100% confidence
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Rank.ai AI Research Assistants Prompt Benchmark
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Freshness
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