Best AI Agents

OpenAI Deep Research alternatives

7 other research agents listed here. OpenAI Deep Research is paid.

Consensus

Research agents

Search engine for peer-reviewed research

Freemiumpaperssearch

Elicit

Research agents

Research assistant for scientific papers

Freemiumpapersliterature-review

Gemini Deep Research

Research agents

Gemini mode that researches a topic and writes a report

Freemiumgooglegemini

GPT Researcher

Research agents

Open source agent that writes cited research reports

Open sourceopen-sourcereports

Open Deep Research

Research agents

LangChain's open source deep research agent

Open sourcelangchainlanggraph

Perplexity

Research agents

Answer engine with a multi-step research mode

Freemiumsearchcitations

STORM

Research agents

Stanford system that drafts Wikipedia-style articles

Open sourcestanfordresearch