Buyer prompt · published evidence

Create a shortlist of AI research assistant vendors for an evidence-heavy organization replacing ad hoc search and manual research briefs.

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
Aug 25, 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
01Perplexityperplexity.aiResearch AI130Openai
02Elicitelicit.comResearch AI121Openai
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 AIPerplexity · Elicit55cc6c2448…4bd0e
Anthropicanthropic/claude-haiku-4-5Research AINone observed00fa804489…e32a2
Geminigoogle/gemini-2.5-flashResearch AINone observed99a660984a…f06c3
URL-derived citations

Sources cited

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

DomainCited pageBest positionProvidersObservationsCategories
microsoft.comhttps://microsoft.com/en/microsoft-365/word/ai-research-agent1Gemini1Research AI
researchgate.nethttps://researchgate.net/post/What_are_the_best_AI_tools_for_Research1Openai1Research AI
elicit.comhttps://elicit.com/2Openai1Research AI
kimi.aihttps://kimi.ai/resources/best-ai-research-assistants2Gemini1Research AI
listenlabs.aihttps://listenlabs.ai/articles/enterprise-ai-research-assistant-capabilities/3Gemini1Research AI
simular.aihttps://simular.ai/alternatives/ai-assistant3Openai1Research AI
clarivate.comhttps://clarivate.com/academia-government/scientific-and-academic-research/research-discovery-and-referencing/web-of-science/web-of-science-research-assistant/4Gemini1Research AI
reddit.comhttps://reddit.com/r/PhD/comments/1qdpgwf/what_is_the_best_ai_tool_for_research/4Openai1Research AI
litmaps.comhttps://litmaps.com/learn/best-ai-research-tools5Openai1Research AI
paperguide.aihttps://paperguide.ai/5Gemini1Research AI
casrai.orghttps://casrai.org/guides/ai-powered-research-assistant-tools6Gemini1Research AI
provectus.comhttps://provectus.com/generative-ai-center-of-excellence/ai-research-assistant/7Gemini1Research AI
reddit.comhttps://reddit.com/r/AIAssisted/comments/1j3enww/i_tested_5_best_ai_tools_for_researchheres_my/8Gemini1Research AI
hirefullstackdeveloperindia.comhttps://hirefullstackdeveloperindia.com/ai-research-assistant-platform-development-agencies9Gemini1Research AI
Snapshot IDs87e6acfa-8e14-4c4e-ba2b-0942f94ccc86
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.