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Ask an AI vs Consensus vs Litmaps

All three are research tools. Here is what separates them.

	Ask an AI	Consensus	Litmaps
What it is	Curated, quality-checked AI answers. Ask anything — only answers that pass an independent editorial AI review become permanent, citable pages.	Answers a yes-or-no research question by aggregating what the papers actually found.	Litmaps accelerates your entire literature review. Discover important papers faster and transform how you do research with dynamic visualizations.
Category	Research	Research	Research
Pricing	Paid	Freemium · Free · from $8.99/mo	Paid · $10/mo
How it bills	Not published	Flat monthly	Flat monthly
Free tier	No	Yes	No
Rating	Not yet rated	Not yet rated	Not yet rated
Features	—	Evidence-based answers from papers Consensus meter across studies Study quality indicators Citation export Filters by study type	—
What works	Sits in Uncategorised, one of the better-covered categories here — easy to compare	Shows disagreement rather than hiding it Every answer traces to papers Good free tier	Publishes its price openly — $10/mo Sits in Research, one of the better-covered categories here — easy to compare
What does not	No free tier — it has to be paid for before it can be tried Does not publish a price on its own site, so the cost is only clear after signing up 93 other tools in this catalogue claim to do the same job 21 tools in the same category have a free tier	Only covers questions research has addressed Consensus meter oversimplifies Field coverage is uneven	No free tier — it has to be paid for before it can be tried 44 other tools in this catalogue claim to do the same job 12 tools in the same category have a free tier

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