Consensus
Overview
AI research engine that answers questions with evidence from peer-reviewed scientific papers and citations.
Best For Professions:
Consensus is a search engine for scientific literature that uses AI to synthesize findings from published research. Students, clinicians, and analysts use it to get evidence-backed answers instead of generic web summaries.
Product overview
Capabilities, pricing and fit
Consensus is a hosted academic search and research platform with agentic research features, not a general-purpose autonomous agent. It searches a large peer-reviewed-paper index, ranks results for relevance and quality, and grounds AI summaries and reviews in cited studies.
Information as of August 14, 2026
What it can do
- Hybrid academic-paper search
Consensus searches more than 220 million papers with semantic and keyword retrieval, then reranks results using relevance, recency, citations, and journal-quality signals.[1]
- Research Agent and cited synthesis
The Research Agent plans multi-step searches and applies academic filters, while Pro messages synthesize findings from retrieved papers with citations.[1]
- Paper analysis and literature organization
Users can inspect study details, chat with full text, visualize agreement with Consensus Meter, and organize papers in a personal library.[1], [3]
Where it fits best
Pricing and availability
Consensus has a free tier. Pro is $20 per month or $144 per year, Deep is $65 per month or $540 per year, and Teams and Enterprise use organization-specific pricing.[2]
Platforms: Consensus web application[1], [2]
Access: Consensus-hosted individual service, Consensus-hosted Teams or Enterprise service[1], [2]
Important considerations
- Consensus is intentionally scoped to its scientific-paper database rather than the general web, so it is not the right source for questions whose evidence primarily lives outside academic literature.[1]
- Advanced Pro messages, Deep reviews, and Study Snapshots are capped by plan; the free tier includes only limited monthly allowances for these features.[2]
Sources (3)
- How Consensus Works | Consensus Help CenterDocumentation · checked 2026-08-14
- Subscription Plans | Consensus Help CenterPricing page · checked 2026-08-14
- Consensus Product Changelog | Consensus Help CenterChangelog · checked 2026-08-14
Autonomy level
45/100
Our subjective rating of how independently the product carries out its documented tasks, considering the human setup, input, approval and review it needs. This is not a measured success rate.
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Some of the use cases of Consensus:
- Finding evidence-backed answers from scientific papers.
- Summarizing research literature for reports and decisions.
- Reducing time spent manually scanning academic sources.
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