#4 in Research & searchFree tier
Consensus
Search engine for scientific papers.
Consensus searches research papers and summarizes what they report, with links to the studies. It is for scientific and academic questions, not for news or your codebase.
Why this rank
When the claim is a research claim, Consensus searches papers. A general chat is a worse place to start.
Best for
Checking a scientific claim against published papers.
Pricing
Free searches and paid plans on consensus.app. See the site for current limits.
Pricing checked November 7, 2026. Confirm it on the official site.
Before you commit
- Coverage is the research literature, not product docs or the news.
- A paper existing is not the same as the paper being right. Read it.
Also look at
- NotebookLM — Google's notebook that answers from sources you upload.
- Perplexity — Answer engine that cites the pages it used.