BUYER PROMPT / PUBLISHED EVIDENCE
Which AI research assistants are strongest for current web research that requires broad retrieval, source diversity, recency, and cited synthesis?
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
- recommendation
- 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.
| # | Brand | Category | Providers | Mentions | Owned citations | Provider evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Consensusconsensus.app ↗ | Research AI | 3 | 5 | 0 | Openai · Anthropic · Gemini |
| 02 | Elicitelicit.com ↗ | Research AI | 3 | 4 | 0 | Openai · Anthropic · Gemini |
| 03 | Perplexityperplexity.ai ↗ | Research AI | 1 | 4 | 0 | Anthropic |
| 04 | NotebookLMnotebooklm.google.com ↗ | Research AI | 1 | 1 | 0 | Gemini |
| 05 | SciSpacescispace.com ↗ | Research AI | 1 | 1 | 0 | Gemini |
| 06 | Semantic Scholarsemanticscholar.org ↗ | Research AI | 1 | 1 | 0 | Gemini |
MODEL COMPARISON
Answer matrix
One row per configured provider and category snapshot. Hashes prove answer identity without publishing stored answer text.
| Provider | Model version | Category | Brands surfaced | Citations | Unique domains | Answer hash |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Openai | openai/gpt-4o-mini | Research AI | Elicit · Consensus | 7 | 7 | 34973baa…93319 |
| Anthropic | anthropic/claude-haiku-4-5 | Research AI | Perplexity · Elicit · Consensus | 6 | 6 | f5f6e729…28dea |
| Gemini | google/gemini-2.5-flash | Research AI | Elicit · Consensus · Semantic Scholar · NotebookLM · SciSpace | 7 | 7 | 65f1dd16…e1df4 |
URL-DERIVED CITATIONS
Sources cited
Hostnames are derived from the returned public URLs. Best position is the smallest citation position observed.