The short answer
Cheapest at 5 seats a month
$20/mo
Claude (Research), Pro plan
- Lowest starting price
- $4.99 · Gemini Deep Research
- Free plans
- 7 of 20
- Prices published
- 10 of 20
- Sales-led only
- 4
AI research assistants at a glance
Median starting price$16.25/moHalf start between $10 and $41
Free plan35%10% offer a time-limited trial
Buy online50%Sign up and pay without a sales call
Sales only20%Demo or contact sales to buy
How they charge
What you'd pay at 5 seats a month
- Claude (Research) Pro$20
- Elicit Plus$55
- Gemini Deep Research Google AI Ultra (5x)$99.99
- Dust Business Pro seat$150
Computed from each tool's published plans, allowances and overage rates.
Every AI research assistant, side by side
| Tool | Starts at | Usage price | Free plan | How you buy | Checks | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Claude (Research) |
$17/mo yearly | – | Yes | Both | 7/10 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Elicit |
$11/mo yearly | – | Yes | Both | 9/10 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Gemini Deep Research |
$4.99/mo | – | Yes | Self-serve | 1/10 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Dust |
$24/mo yearly | $0.01/minute | Yes | Both | 6/10 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 ResearchRabbit |
$10/mo yearly | – | Yes | Both | 2/10 | Oct 29, 2026 |
| scite | $12/mo yearly | – | – | Both | 6/10 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 AlphaSense |
– | – | – | – | 5/10 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 ChatGPT (Deep Research) |
– | – | Yes | Both | 5/10 | Oct 29, 2026 |
| CoCounsel | – | – | – | – | 0/10 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Consensus |
– | – | – | – | 3/10 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Crayon |
– | – | – | Sales-led | 1/10 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Google NotebookLM |
– | – | – | – | 2/10 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Harvey |
– | – | – | Sales-led | 4/10 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Iris.ai |
– | – | – | Both | 1/10 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Klue |
– | – | – | Sales-led | 3/10 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Kompyte |
– | – | – | Both | 4/10 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Parallel Web Systems |
– | $5/minute | Yes | Both | 4/10 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Perplexity |
– | – | – | – | 0/10 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 SciSpace |
– | – | – | – | 0/10 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Talkwalker |
– | – | – | Sales-led | 1/10 | Oct 29, 2026 |
The tools
Claude (Research)General-purpose AI assistant from Anthropic with chat, web search, file creation, projects, a Research feature on paid plans, and app connectors.$17 /moElicitElicit is an AI research assistant that searches academic papers and builds cited reports, tables and systematic reviews.$11 /moGemini Deep ResearchGoogle's Gemini AI assistant app with chat, Deep Research, image and video generation, sold as a free tier plus paid Google AI plans.$4.99 /moDustDust is a platform for building and running AI agents that connect to company data and tools, with people and agents sharing the same workspace.$24 /moResearchRabbitResearchRabbit is a literature discovery tool that maps how papers connect, starting from seed articles, with a free tier and a paid RR+ plan.$10 /moSCsciteScite is an AI research assistant that answers questions from scholarly literature and shows whether papers have been supported or contradicted by later research.$12 /moAlphaSenseAI market intelligence platform that searches and summarizes financial and business documents, expert transcripts and a firm's own files, with cited answers.QuoteChatGPT (Deep Research)ChatGPT is OpenAI's AI assistant for chat, file uploads, deep research and more, sold in Free, Go, Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise plans.QuoteCOCoCounselLegal research service that has been shut down; the page points users to Westlaw and CoCounsel.QuoteConsensusAI-powered academic search engine that searches and analyzes peer-reviewed research papers.QuoteCrayonCompetitive intelligence platform that monitors competitors, summarizes findings with AI, and delivers battlecards to sales teams in their existing tools.QuoteGoogle NotebookLMGemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) is an AI notebook that answers questions and generates summaries, flashcards, mind maps and audio overviews from sources the user provides.QuoteHarveyLegal AI platform for law firms and in-house legal teams, with agents, a document vault, legal research, and shared workspaces.QuoteIris.aiIris.ai sells enterprise AI software for running retrieval-based AI workflows on a company's own documents and systems.QuoteKlueKlue is an AI platform for competitive intelligence and win-loss analysis that collects competitor intel and buyer feedback and delivers it to sales teams.QuoteKompyteCompetitive intelligence platform that tracks competitors across web sources and delivers AI-filtered updates and battlecards to sales teams.QuoteParallel Web SystemsWeb infrastructure APIs that let AI agents search, extract, monitor, and run cited research over the web.$5 /minutePerplexityPerplexity is an AI search tool with a question box and a Computer feature for handing off project work.QuoteSciSpaceQuoteTalkwalkerSocial listening, media monitoring and benchmarking platform from Talkwalker (now Lumen by Talkwalker, part of Hootsuite), sold by custom quote.QuoteHow this list is made
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