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IT & Productivity Unclaimed · our research only We found: from $15 🔎 1 cost-trap flag
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Our pricing checkRead on their own pricing page, 2026
Cost-trap flags🆓 Free tier
What we found — independently
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Our pricing check · 2026Free tier with essential search; Pro about $15/mo (or ~$10/mo billed annually) with unlimited Pro searches and 15 Deep searches; a Deep tier adds ~200 Deep searches for power users; Teams/Enterprise custom.
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 — study quality, sample sizes and conflicting results still need your judgment, and the AI summary layer can smooth over genuine scientific …
Cost-trap flags — each with its evidence
🆓 Free tier — A genuinely free plan or version exists
“(2026) Free tier with essential search; Pro about $15/mo (or ~$10/mo billed annually) with unlimited Pro searches and 15 Deep searches; a Deep tier a…”
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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