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BASE Search
AI Research
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Academic search engine indexing 300M+ open access documents from 10,000+ providers.
Best for: research
Google Scholar ✓
AI Research
Free
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Mar 2026
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Free Google search engine for scholarly articles, theses, books, and patents worldwide.
Best for: research
Semantic Scholar ✓
AI Research
Free
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Mar 2026
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Free AI academic search with 200M+ papers, TLDR summaries, and citation graphs.
Best for: research
PubMed AI ✓
AI Research
Free
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Mar 2026
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AI-enhanced biomedical literature search built on the PubMed database by NCBI.
Best for: biomedical
Consensus
AI Research
Freemium
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Mar 2026
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AI academic search engine that finds scientific consensus on any research question.
Best for: research
Elicit
AI Research
Freemium
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Mar 2026
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AI research assistant for finding, extracting, and synthesizing academic papers.
Best for: research