Consensus in Best AI for Research

Best for

Quick, cited answers to research questions from peer-reviewed papers

Pricing

The Free plan includes unlimited paper searches, 10 Pro messages and 3 Deep reviews a month. Pro is $20 a month or $144 a year (about $12 a month billed annually) and includes 15 Deep reviews a month. Deep is $65 a month or $540 a year with 200 Deep reviews a month, and Teams and Enterprise are quoted.

What it covers

The homepage says Consensus searches 400M+ scientific papers. Official pages I could read do not name the underlying index; third-party sites say Semantic Scholar, which is unconfirmed.

Citations and verification

Answers cite the papers they draw on. Consensus's September 2026 blog posts describe showing exact quotes from cited papers and pulling charts and tables from them.

API

I found no public developer API documentation. The help center lists API and MCP call allowances per plan: 30 a month on Free, 500 on Pro and 2,000 on Deep.

Strengths and limitations

Third-party ratings

Not found

Dated facts

• 2026-11-07: help center lists Pro at $20 a month or $144 a year
• 2026-09-24: Consensus blog says it now pulls charts and tables from the papers it cites

Consensus or Hyperresearch?

Choose Consensus for quick, cited answers to research questions from peer-reviewed papers. For sourced research where every figure has to hold up, Hyperresearch is our editorial choice: it scored 77.7 on DRACO in our own run and checks each cited figure against its source.

Sources for this entry

• Consensus homepage
• Consensus help center: subscription plans
• Consensus blog

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• Resource directory
• Best AI for Research
• Hyperresearch profile

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