AnswerThis
Verified Oct 16, 2026 ActiveCited literature search plus PRISMA screening and manuscript drafting for academic work
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Paid options from
- $35/mo
- Billing
- Monthly
Free plan needs no card and covers deep search, cited answers, five saved projects and export to reference managers. Pro is $35 per seat per month (about 17% less yearly), Lab & Team $75 per seat billed annually with a three-seat minimum, and Max $250/month for campus site licences with SSO and a librarian console. A credits table lower on the same page still shows older figures ($14, $30, $100), so confirm the price at checkout.
Use tool ↗About AnswerThis
AnswerThis is a research workflow tool rather than a chatbot: it searches a large corpus of papers, trials and PDFs, returns answers with citations attached, builds evidence tables, runs systematic-review screening against PRISMA and drafts manuscript sections in any of thousands of citation styles. It targets academics, pharma and consulting teams whose output has to survive peer review, so the citation trail matters more than fluency. A free plan covers search and five projects; paid seats unlock the writer, review pipelines and uncapped model use. Team and institutional tiers add shared workspaces and SSO.
- Platforms
- Web
- API
- Not confirmed
- Last verified
- Oct 16, 2026
Verified sources
- Pricing page: Free $0, Pro $35/month per seat billed monthly, Lab & Team $75/month billed annually with min 3 seats, Max $250/month (15 October 2026)answerthis.io ↗
- Home page claims 300M+ papers and sources and 2000+ citation styles, with PRISMA/Cochrane review workflows (15 October 2026)answerthis.io ↗
- Privacy policy states AnswerThis is a United States based company (15 October 2026)answerthis.io ↗
Is AnswerThis legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Nov 20, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 16, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 16, 2026The site answered
- Operated by
- AnswerThis, United StatesOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of AnswerThis
AnswerThis goes further into the actual review process than most cited-answer tools — dual-reviewer screening, evidence grading and PRISMA structure are real workflow features, not chat wrappers. The catch is price: $35 a seat is well above general research assistants, and the free tier's five-project cap makes a serious evaluation awkward.
Pros
- Screening, evidence grading and drafting sit in one workflow
- Free plan needs no card and still includes cited search and exports
- Exports into standard reference managers and thousands of citation styles
- Institutional tier covers SSO and LMS integration rather than just more seats
Cons
- Corpus size is stated inconsistently: 300M+ papers on the homepage, 250M+ on the pricing page
- Team tier requires three seats billed annually, so the real entry cost is much higher
- No API for pulling results into other tools
Best for
- Researchers running systematic or scoping reviews with a documented method
- Pharma and clinical teams needing traceable evidence tables
- Labs that want shared projects and dual-reviewer screening
Not for
- Casual question answering better served by a general AI search tool
- Solo students who cannot justify a $35 monthly seat
Watch out: AI-assembled evidence tables still need manual verification — a citation being attached is not the same as it supporting the claim, and journals will hold you to the latter.
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