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Consensus

by Consensus · Platform · also known as Consensus AI, consensus.app

AI search engine over peer-reviewed literature that synthesizes answers, shows a Consensus Meter for yes/no questions and summarizes studies

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Overview

Consensus is a hosted search engine for scientific literature that answers natural-language questions with synthesized text grounded in peer-reviewed papers. Its distinctive features are the Consensus Meter, which displays the balance of findings for yes/no questions, Study Snapshots that summarize methods and results, Pro Search and Deep Search modes for more thorough synthesis, an "Ask Paper" chat for single documents, collections, a citation graph view, and export of references in RIS, BibTeX and CSV.

The product is free to start with paid individual plans on monthly or annual billing and team, organization and university offerings; the public pages do not name the bibliographic sources it indexes.

Because answers are generated by language models over abstracts and full texts, the meter and summaries are a triage aid and the underlying papers should still be read before citing.

Editorial note on uncertainty. The pricing page renders plan details client-side; only the individual/team/enterprise structure and monthly/annual billing could be confirmed.

Capabilities

  • Natural-language search over peer-reviewed papers
  • Consensus Meter for yes/no questions
  • Study Snapshots summarizing methods and findings
  • Pro Search and Deep Search synthesis modes
  • Ask Paper chat and collections
  • Citation export in RIS, BibTeX and CSV

Typical workflows

  1. Quick evidence check on a factual question
  2. Collecting candidate papers before a formal review

Strengths

  • Free tier to start
  • Answers cite the specific studies used

Limitations

  • Sources of the index are not disclosed publicly
  • Generated summaries require verification
  • Help centre blocks automated access, limiting documentation review

Prerequisites

  • Web browser; account for saved collections

Who it is for

  • Students
  • Clinicians and practitioners
  • Researchers scoping a question

Alternatives & comparison

Elicit emphasizes structured extraction into tables; scite classifies individual citations; Consensus is optimized for direct question answering with an agreement indicator.

  • Elicit

    AI research assistant that finds papers, extracts structured data from them into tables and runs systematic-review style workflows and reports

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  • Google Scholar

    Free scholarly search engine from Google that indexes articles, theses, books and court opinions with citation counts and author profiles

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  • scite

    Citation-analysis platform whose Smart Citations show whether later papers support, contrast or merely mention a claim, with an AI assistant and reference checking

    ProprietaryFreemium
  • Semantic Scholar

    Free AI-assisted literature search from Ai2 with an Academic Graph API, recommendations and downloadable datasets of papers, authors and citations

    ProprietaryFree
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Sources & verification

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  • Official site
    Consensus: AI for Research

    https://consensus.app/

    Supports: name, summary, capabilities

    checked Nov 1, 2026
  • Pricing page
    Pricing

    https://consensus.app/pricing

    Supports: pricing_model

    checked Nov 1, 2026
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