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Compare AI research assistants on retrieval coverage, source quality, citation accuracy, synthesis, exports, collaboration, privacy, and price.

An exact prompt-level view of which reviewed brands surfaced and which public URLs the configured AI models cited. No answer text or tenant data is published.

Intent
commercial
Model providers
3
Categories
1
Last observed
Jul 27, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC
COMPETITIVE OUTCOME

Brands surfaced

Ordered by provider breadth, then total mentions and owned-domain citations. A mention is not an endorsement or a position claim.

#BrandCategoryProvidersMentionsOwned citationsProvider evidence
01Elicitelicit.comResearch AI3170Openai · Anthropic · Gemini
02Consensusconsensus.appResearch AI3160Openai · Anthropic · Gemini
03Perplexityperplexity.aiResearch AI2110Anthropic · Gemini
04NotebookLMnotebooklm.google.comResearch AI180Anthropic
05OpenAI Deep Researchopenai.comResearch AI141Anthropic
06Gemini Deep Researchgemini.google.comResearch AI140Anthropic
07Semantic Scholarsemanticscholar.orgResearch AI110Gemini
08SciSpacescispace.comResearch AI101Anthropic
MODEL COMPARISON

Answer matrix

One row per configured provider and category snapshot. Hashes prove answer identity without publishing stored answer text.

ProviderModel versionCategoryBrands surfacedCitationsUnique domainsAnswer hash
Openaiopenai/gpt-4o-miniResearch AIElicit · Consensus33c136ce86…1e18b
Anthropicanthropic/claude-haiku-4-5Research AIPerplexity · Elicit · Consensus · NotebookLM · OpenAI Deep Research · Gemini Deep Research · SciSpace9926cf4e2a…beb47
Geminigoogle/gemini-2.5-flashResearch AIPerplexity · Elicit · Consensus · Semantic Scholar88acea1ec3…cc837
URL-DERIVED CITATIONS

Sources cited

Hostnames are derived from the returned public URLs. Best position is the smallest citation position observed.

DomainCited pageBest positionProvidersObservationsCategories
huit.harvard.eduhttps://huit.harvard.edu/ai/tools1Openai1Research AI
listenlabs.aihttps://listenlabs.ai/articles/ai-research-assistant-literature-review/1Gemini1Research AI
studytexter.comhttps://studytexter.com/ai-research-assistant1Anthropic1Research AI
editage.ushttps://editage.us/blog/best-ai-research-assistants/2Gemini1Research AI
researchguides.library.syr.eduhttps://researchguides.library.syr.edu/c.php?g=1341750&p=102942982Openai1Research AI
scispace.comhttps://scispace.com/agents/zotero-ai-research-assistant-svw7jt0z2Anthropic1Research AI
atlasworkspace.aihttps://atlasworkspace.ai/blog/best-ai-research-assistants3Gemini1Research AI
guides.lib.purdue.eduhttps://guides.lib.purdue.edu/c.php?g=1371380&p=105928013Openai1Research AI
paperguide.aihttps://paperguide.ai/blog/ai-tools-for-research-paper-writing/3Anthropic1Research AI
devopsschool.comhttps://devopsschool.com/blog/top-10-ai-literature-review-assistants-features-pros-cons-comparison/4Gemini1Research AI
youtube.comhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=7sWE_-w28po4Anthropic1Research AI
cypris.aihttps://cypris.ai/insights/11-best-ai-tools-for-scientific-literature-review-in-20265Gemini1Research AI
evernote.comhttps://evernote.com/chat-with-ai-assistant/ai-research-assistant-free5Anthropic1Research AI
community.openai.comhttps://community.openai.com/t/exporting-references-from-deep-research-to-e-g-bibtex/11501656Anthropic1Research AI
ticnote.comhttps://ticnote.com/en/blog/ai-agent-scientific-research6Gemini1Research AI
mirfan99.substack.comhttps://mirfan99.substack.com/p/9-best-ai-research-assistant-tools7Anthropic1Research AI
paperguide.aihttps://paperguide.ai/blog/best-ai-research-assistant-tools/7Gemini1Research AI
litmaps.comhttps://litmaps.com/learn/best-ai-research-tools8Gemini1Research AI
sourcely.nethttps://sourcely.net/resources/stop-wasting-time-the-smartest-way-to-build-a-bibliography8Anthropic1Research AI
atlasworkspace.aihttps://atlasworkspace.ai/blog/ai-with-references9Anthropic1Research AI
Snapshot IDs90b48a78-a237-4e5b-a147-59c7e398ad1c
Corpus versionsai-research-assistants-2026-07-27
Benchmark versions4-ai-research-assistants-2026-07-27-models-64232fd32583

Coverage: Research AI. Full answers stored: no · Full answers published: no · Tenant data included: no.