Best AI Agents

Perplexity alternatives

7 other research agents listed here. Perplexity is freemium.

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

OpenAI Deep Research

Research agents

ChatGPT agent that writes multi-page research reports

Paidopenaichatgpt

STORM

Research agents

Stanford system that drafts Wikipedia-style articles

Open sourcestanfordresearch