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Buying question

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

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.

Commercial

Kind of question

3

Model APIs

4

Brands named

16

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 APIsMentionsNamed by
1Consensusconsensus.app22OpenAI · Google
2Elicitelicit.com12OpenAI
3Perplexityperplexity.ai12OpenAI
4SciSpacescispace.com11OpenAI

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-miniPerplexity · Elicit · Consensus · SciSpace76e35e8ca0…31252
Anthropicanthropic/claude-haiku-4-5None named00fa5bdf76…9dab7
Googlegoogle/gemini-2.5-flashConsensus994b0c6291…6868c

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
answerthis.iohttps://answerthis.io/1OpenAI1
microsoft.comhttps://microsoft.com/en/microsoft-365/word/ai-research-agent1Google1
fiercehealthcare.comhttps://fiercehealthcare.com/ai-and-machine-learning/payerset-launches-ai-powered-research-assistant-turn-price-transparency2Google1
reddit.comhttps://reddit.com/r/PhD/comments/1qdpgwf/what_is_the_best_ai_tool_for_research/2OpenAI1
payerset.comhttps://payerset.com/platform/ai-research-assistant/3Google1
thesify.aihttps://thesify.ai/blog/best-ai-tools-academic-research3OpenAI1
clarivate.comhttps://clarivate.com/academia-government/scientific-and-academic-research/research-discovery-and-referencing/web-of-science/web-of-science-research-assistant/4Google1
reddit.comhttps://reddit.com/r/PhdProductivity/comments/1kvepen/what_ai_tools_besides_chatgpt_do_you_actually_use/4OpenAI1
reddit.comhttps://reddit.com/r/AIAssisted/comments/1j3enww/i_tested_5_best_ai_tools_for_researchheres_my/5Google1
simular.aihttps://simular.ai/alternatives/ai-assistant5OpenAI1
choice360.orghttps://choice360.org/libtech-insight/ai-tools-for-academic-libraries-ai-research-assisants/6OpenAI1
qedscience.comhttps://qedscience.com/blog/best-ai-research-assistant-tools6Google1
paperguide.aihttps://paperguide.ai/7Google1
quora.comhttps://quora.com/What-is-the-best-AI-for-scholarly-research-and-writing7OpenAI1
libguides.kcl.ac.ukhttps://libguides.kcl.ac.uk/systematicreview/ai8Google1
researchpal.cohttps://researchpal.co/ai-agent9Google1
Snapshots
764b7769-1e62-441d-8be5-5d6425d2fc22
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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