Consensus

Our independent research dossier — no vendor description, because nobody at Consensus has claimed this page.

IT & Productivity Unclaimed · our research only We found: Free plan; paid from $12 🔎 1 cost-trap flag
🔎 Unclaimed — this is our research, not their listing. Consensus has not submitted anything to us, has not seen or approved this page, and has not claimed this listing. There is no vendor description here, and we have not written one on their behalf. Everything below comes from our own dossier — the same one behind the Honest Software Atlas. Reader reviews are moderated for spam only; critical ones get published too.
Our pricing checkRead on their own pricing page, 28 Sep 2026
Cost-trap flags🪑 Per-seat pricing 🆓 Free tier
Independent reviewRead our full dossier →
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What we found — independently

Researched by AIBM, not supplied by the vendor. The vendor has not been involved in this page at all.

Our pricing check · re-verified 28 September 2026 in a rendered browser, monthly…Free: $0, 10 Pro messages and up to 3 Deep reviews a month.
What will cost you money if you skim itIt 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.

Cost-trap flags — each with its evidence

🪑 Per-seat pricing — Cost scales with every user you add
“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 se…”
🆓 Free tier — A genuinely free plan or version exists
“(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.”

Genuinely good for

researchers, clinicians, students and writers who want evidence-backed answers drawn from peer-reviewed papers instead of the open web

Skip it 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)

The honest comparisonElicit or Semantic Scholar — the research-AI peer set — Consensus leans consumer-friendly consensus summaries; Elicit leans structured extraction for reviews

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