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Consensus vs Inquisite

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors. Only Consensus has a free tier.

ConsensusSearch over peer-reviewed papers with claim summariesInquisiteLets research teams semantically search over 100 million papers and visualize how they relate to each other.

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FactConsensusInquisite
CategoryAcademic Search & Literature ReviewAcademic Search & Literature Review
Pricing modelFreemiumContact
Public APINoNo
PlatformsWeb, iOS, AndroidWeb
CompanyConsensusInquisite
Launched20212023
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 1, 2026

What our research says

Consensus

Useful when you want to know what a body of literature actually concludes rather than reading one paper at a time, but it orients you, it does not replace reading them.

Pros

  • Every answer is tied to specific papers with study design and sample size
  • Free tier is a standing plan rather than a time-limited trial
  • The yes-or-no consensus meter is a fast orientation device
  • Covers a very large index of peer-reviewed literature

Cons

  • Summaries can flatten real disagreement between studies into false consensus
  • Coverage skews to indexed English-language biomedical work
  • Pricing cannot be verified from outside; the site blocks automated access
  • Free allowance of the deeper analyses runs out quickly in real use

Inquisite

Inquisite targets science and R&D teams rather than students, with a semantic search index built for finding related work across a large paper corpus and turning it into project-organized synthesis. Coming out of a university research background gives it some credibility on the science side, but the lack of public pricing makes it hard to evaluate against competitors without contacting sales.

Pros

  • Indexes a large corpus of over 100 million papers for semantic rather than keyword search
  • Built by domain-experienced founders from a university research program
  • Offers multiple LLM choices for the analysis step

Cons

  • No public pricing, so evaluating cost requires contacting the company directly
  • Full features are gated behind account sign-in, limiting what can be checked without registering
  • Organized as a young public benefit corporation, so longevity is less proven than established players

Which one fits

Choose Consensus if you need

  • Checking whether a specific claim has support across published studies
  • Clinicians and students orienting quickly in an unfamiliar literature
  • Anyone who wants citations attached to every summarised claim

Choose Inquisite if you need

  • R&D and science teams doing systematic literature reviews
  • Researchers who want to visualize relationships between papers, not just a search list
  • Teams wanting a choice of underlying LLM for analysis

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