ChatGPT
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The everyday AI assistant most people try first, good at drafting, explaining and making images.
Free · Plus $20/mo
By profession
🔬AI tools for researchers
Researchers use AI to search the literature, get answers with citations, extract data from studies into tables, summarize long papers and run quick analyses. It makes the early stages of a review far less tedious.
We suggest prioritizing citations you can verify, coverage of the databases in your field, and the ability to upload your own documents safely.
We picked 9 tools across research, summarizer and data & analytics — 9 of them free to start.
🔬 Research for researchers
All Research →Gemini
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Google's AI assistant, at its most useful when it can see your Gmail, Docs and Drive.
Free · Advanced $19.99/mo
Perplexity
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Ask a question, get a clear answer with links to where the information came from.
Free · Pro $20/mo
NotebookLM
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Google's free research notebook that answers questions only from the sources you give it.
Free
🧾 Summarizer for researchers
All Summarizer →QuillBot
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A handy all-in-one spot to reword, shorten and tidy up text without bouncing between apps.
Free · Premium $9.95/mo
NotebookLM
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Google's free research notebook that answers questions only from the sources you give it.
Free
Otter.ai
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Live transcripts and tidy summaries of your meetings, so you can listen instead of scribbling.
Free · Pro $16.99/mo
Eightify
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Skip the hour-long video and get the main points of any YouTube clip in a quick summary.
Free · from $4.99/mo
📊 Data & Analytics for researchers
All Data & Analytics →Julius AI
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Upload a spreadsheet, ask a question in plain English and get the chart you were picturing.
Free · from $20/mo
Hex
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Shared data notebooks where SQL, Python and an AI helper all live on one page.
Freemium📊 Data & Analytics
Free · from $36/mo
FAQ
Which AI tools should researchers try first?+
We’d start with ChatGPT — the everyday ai assistant most people try first, good at drafting, explaining and making images, Gemini — google's ai assistant, at its most useful when it can see your gmail, docs and drive and Perplexity — ask a question, get a clear answer with links to where the information came from.
Are there free AI tools for researchers?+
Plenty — ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and QuillBot all have free plans.