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 "id": "consensus",
 "name": "Consensus",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "consensus.app",
 "category": "IT & Productivity",
 "task": "Personal productivity & research",
 "summary": "AI search across peer-reviewed literature: it reports what published studies found, not whether those studies are sound. Study quality and conflicting results still need your own judgment.",
 "best_for": "researchers, clinicians, students and writers who want evidence-backed answers drawn from peer-reviewed papers instead of the open web",
 "skip_if": "your questions are practical/commercial rather than research-based (a general AI assistant fits), or you need full systematic-review rigor (this accelerates it, not replaces it)",
 "honest_knock": "It searches peer-reviewed literature, which is its strength and its boundary: it can tell you what published studies found, not whether those studies are good. Study quality, sample sizes and conflicting results still need your judgment, and the AI summary layer can smooth over genuine scientific disagreement. Treat it as a dramatically faster literature scan, not an oracle; click through to the papers that matter. Consensus's own developer notes (read 21 October 2026) add three limits worth knowing before you pay. The corpus is English-first: non-English papers are indexed where metadata exists, but ranking and summaries are tuned for English. It is not a news feed: papers published in the last few weeks may not be indexed yet. And the Consensus Meter is described as a heuristic, not a formal meta-analysis.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$12",
  "entry_price_terms": "a month, billed annually ($20 billed monthly)",
  "from_price_usd_month": 12.0,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(re-verified 28 September 2026 in a rendered browser, monthly and annual tabs) Free: $0, 10 Pro messages and up to 3 Deep reviews a month. Pro: $20 a month billed monthly, or $12 a month billed annually ($144 a year), with unlimited Pro messages, 15 Deep reviews a month and 500 API and MCP uses included, then $0.05 a use up to 1,000. Deep: $65 monthly, or $45 a month billed annually ($540 a year), with 200 Deep reviews and 2,000 API and MCP uses, then $0.05 a use up to 10,000. Students and faculty with a school email and US healthcare professionals with an NPI number can get up to 40% off. Team and Enterprise carry no amount on the page; the vendor's machine-readable pricing file puts Team at up to 200 seats with 50 Deep searches per seat and Enterprise on contract, and on 28 September it still gave Free 15 Pro messages where the rendered page said 10; re-read on 21 October 2026, that file has been aligned at 10 Pro messages and 3 Deep Searches a month, and it describes the student discount as 40% off for 12 months with a verified .edu or student email. The unit that matters is Deep reviews rather than seats. Correction: our earlier reading, which we could not confirm at the time, put Pro at about $15 a month or roughly $10 annually. The paid amounts are rendered in the browser from Stripe and could not be re-read on 21 October 2026 without one, so the dollar figures above still date from 28 September.",
  "verified_at": "2026-09-28",
  "source_url": null,
  "schema_offer": {
   "price": 20.0,
   "currency": "USD",
   "description": "Pro, Pro per month billed monthly; $12 a month billed annually ($144 a year). Read on the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-09-28.",
   "page": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/b2b/consensus-review/"
  },
  "source_quotes": null
 },
 "free_plan": true,
 "free_plan_evidence": "(re-verified 28 September 2026 in a rendered browser, monthly and annual tabs) Free: $0, 10 Pro messages and up to 3 Deep reviews a month.",
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "per_seat",
   "label": "Per-seat pricing",
   "evidence": "Team and Enterprise carry no amount on the page; the vendor's machine-readable pricing file puts Team at up to 200 seats with 50 Deep searches per seat and Enterprise on contract, and on 28 September it still gave Free 15 Pro messages where the rendered page said 10; re-read on 21 October 2026, that file has been aligned at 10 Pro messages and 3 Deep Searches a month, and it describes the student discount as 40% off for 12 months with a verified .edu or student email.",
   "verified_at": "2026-09-28",
   "source_url": null
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Elicit or Semantic Scholar",
  "why": "the research-AI peer set — Consensus leans consumer-friendly consensus summaries; Elicit leans structured extraction for reviews"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/consensus.json",
  "review": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/b2b/consensus-review/",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/consensus/",
  "vendor_site": "https://consensus.app"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://get.consensus.app/jmzj2dn2d901",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "Being verified: free trial and refund terms are not yet matched to a verbatim line on the vendor's own pages. Not matched does not mean there is none.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "verification": {
  "price": "read",
  "free_trial": "being_verified",
  "refund": "being_verified"
 },
 "status_page": null,
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "consensus:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "consensus:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "consensus:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "consensus:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_checked",
   "detail": "We could not read the vendor's pages as plain HTML.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}