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Which AI research assistants are strongest for current web research that requires broad retrieval, source diversity, recency, and cited synthesis?

Which brands each model API named when asked this question, and which pages it cited. Answer text is not published.
Snapshot Oct 3, 2026. Each category is re-run in rotation, every few weeks.

Recommendation

Kind of question

3

Model APIs

5

Brands named

13

Pages cited

Brands

Brands the answers named

Ordered by how many model APIs named the brand, then by mentions. A mention is not an endorsement or a position.
Rank#BrandModel APIsMentionsOwn-site citationsNamed by
1Elicitelicit.com222OpenAI · Google
2Consensusconsensus.app220OpenAI · Google
3Semantic Scholarsemanticscholar.org211OpenAI · Google
4NotebookLMnotebooklm.google.com110Google
5SciSpacescispace.com110Google

Model APIs

What each model API returned

One row per model API. The hash identifies the exact answer without publishing it.
Model APIModelBrands namedCitationsDomainsAnswer hash
OpenAIopenai/gpt-4o-miniElicit · Consensus · Semantic Scholar54ea1f28b6…291cf
Anthropicanthropic/claude-haiku-4-5None named0061a42cc8…40d1b
Googlegoogle/gemini-2.5-flashElicit · Consensus · Semantic Scholar · NotebookLM · SciSpace88be2142dc…58fd4

Sources

Pages the answers cited

Hostnames come from the URLs the answers returned. Best position is the earliest place a page was cited in an answer.
DomainCited pageBest positionCited byCitations
elicit.comhttps://elicit.com/1OpenAI1
paperguide.aihttps://paperguide.ai/blog/best-ai-research-assistant-tools/1Google1
clarivate.comhttps://clarivate.com/academia-government/scientific-and-academic-research/research-discovery-and-referencing/web-of-science/web-of-science-research-assistant/2Google1
semanticscholar.orghttps://semanticscholar.org/paper/Elicit%3A-AI-literature-review-research-assistant-Whitfield-Hofmann/9a249103bde3347fe18210df2ca84d5175cc896f2OpenAI1
guides.lib.ua.eduhttps://guides.lib.ua.edu/az/web-of-science3Google1
tandfonline.comhttps://tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15228959.2023.22241253OpenAI1
guides.libs.uga.eduhttps://guides.libs.uga.edu/ai/research_tools4Google1
youtube.comhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=rJJPS-EvNfk4OpenAI1
elicit.comhttps://elicit.com/pricing5OpenAI1
mindstudio.aihttps://mindstudio.ai/blog/ai-agents-research-analysis5Google1
studytexter.comhttps://studytexter.com/ai-research-assistant6Google1
atlasworkspace.aihttps://atlasworkspace.ai/blog/ai-research-assistant-tool7Google1
inra.aihttps://inra.ai/blog/ai-research-assistant8Google1
Snapshots
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Question set
ai-research-assistants-2026-07-27
Benchmark version
4-ai-research-assistants-2026-07-27-models-64232fd32583
What is kept
Measured in Research AI. Full answers are not stored or published, and no customer data is included.

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