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AI Research Assistant Reviews

We read every research assistant's own pricing page and export documentation for the step that makes the tool worth using: whether the papers you found can leave as a citation file your reference manager accepts, or only as something you read on their site.

What we check here

On the free plan, how much can you run through it — and can you export the results into your own reference manager?

Every number carries the date we read it, and anything the vendor does not state is left blank rather than estimated. The full procedure is on the Methodology.

Reviews

• Can you get your citations out of a free AI research tool?

  Elicit says plainly that structured export needs a paid plan. Consensus and SciSpace document exports without saying who may run them. Scite has no free plan, and its trial auto-enrols you.

  Last verified 2026-08-06