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Consensus vs Resea AI

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. Resea AI publishes a starting price ($12); Consensus does not. Both have a free tier.

ConsensusSearch over peer-reviewed papers with claim summariesResea AIAcademic research agent that searches PubMed, arXiv, and Scholar, then drafts cited papers up to 50,000 words.

Side by side

FactConsensusResea AI
CategoryAcademic Search & Literature ReviewAcademic Search & Literature Review
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starts at—$12 month
Public APINoNo
PlatformsWeb, iOS, AndroidWeb
CompanyConsensusResea AI
Launched20212025
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

Resea AI

Resea AI targets the specific pain of academic writing: finding citable sources and turning them into a structured draft instead of a blank page. It looks suited to literature reviews and coursework, but because the vendor's site blocked automated access, claims about accuracy and citation quality couldn't be checked hands-on.

Pros

  • searches multiple recognized academic databases in one pass
  • produces long-form drafts, reportedly up to 50,000 words, with formatted citations
  • includes a credit-based free tier before any payment
  • covers the full loop from research to paraphrasing and editing

Cons

  • the vendor's own site returned a bot-blocking error during research, so pricing and features are secondhand
  • credit-based pricing makes real monthly cost hard to predict without testing
  • no information on how it handles citation accuracy or hallucinated sources

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 Resea AI if you need

  • students drafting literature reviews with proper citations
  • researchers who want a first draft assembled from scholarly sources
  • long-form academic writing in APA or IEEE format

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