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Best AI tools for research

Source-grounded answers, literature review, and reading a long document.

The job: Turn a pile of sources into something you can stand behind.

Ranked by score

  1. 1

    Claude

    The professional odds-on. Strong on documents, drafts, and staying with the thread.

    Preliminary scoreReviewed from docs
    89
  2. 2

    ChatGPT

    The default option. Specialists have to be better than this at one job.

    Preliminary scoreReviewed from docs
    85
  3. 3

    NotebookLM

    Answers from your sources. That constraint is the feature.

    Preliminary scoreReviewed from docs
    85
  4. 4

    Perplexity

    Cited web answers. The research tool that shows its work.

    Preliminary scoreReviewed from docs
    83
  5. 5

    Gemini

    Google's general assistant. Strongest when the files are already Google's.

    Preliminary scoreReviewed from docs
    80
  6. 6

    Elicit

    Papers in, a table out. Narrow, and that is the point.

    Preliminary scoreReviewed from docs
    76
  7. 7

    Consensus

    Scientific search. Ask it what the papers say, not what the internet thinks.

    Preliminary scoreReviewed from docs
    74