Edison Scientific vs Undermind

Edison Scientific

• Biology and drug-discovery teams analyzing large experimental datasets
• Academic researchers, for whom the docs describe a free tier
• Checking whether a research idea has already been tried
• Organizations that want research agents deployed in their own environment

Undermind

• Complex research questions where keyword search misses relevant papers
• Academics, who pay $16 a month on annual billing instead of the $60 industry rate
• People who want literature search inside Claude, ChatGPT or a coding agent
• R&D teams tracking new publications in specific technical areas

Edison Scientific

• Prices are not published on the public site; plans appear inside the platform after sign-up.
• At its November 2025 launch a Kosmos run cost 200 credits at $1 a credit, and the company said that rate would probably rise.
• In the same launch post, Edison reported that 79.4% of Kosmos's conclusions were accurate.
• The public site is aimed at biopharma R&D, with demos booked through sales.

Undermind

• Free-tier searches read abstracts and metadata only; full-text search of open-access papers and preprints needs Pro.
• Industry pricing is far higher than academic: Pro is $60 a month billed annually against $16.
• A deep search typically takes about 2 minutes to finish, so results are not instant.
• Charges are non-refundable once a billing period has begun, except where the law requires a refund.

Edison Scientific

Kosmos

An autonomous AI scientist: given an objective and datasets, it reads literature, runs analysis code and writes a cited report. The docs say one run reads about 1,500 papers and executes about 42,000 lines of code.

Literature

Search and synthesis across more than 175 million papers, trials and patents, returning cited answers or a deep review of conflicting evidence.

Analysis

Processes experimental data such as flow cytometry and RNA-seq results into statistical analyses and publication-ready figures.

Precedent

Searches across fields to judge whether a research idea has been tried before, pointing out prior work and open gaps.

Molecules

A chemistry agent that predicts ADMET properties, plans retrosynthesis routes, runs safety assessments and searches databases such as ChEMBL.

API client and enterprise deployment

A Python client runs agent tasks programmatically with an API key. For enterprises, the company offers on-premises deployment and scientists embedded with the customer's team.

Undermind

Deep literature search

You describe a research goal in plain language and answer follow-up questions. Undermind then reads and evaluates hundreds of papers and follows citation trails; a typical search takes about 2 minutes.

Reports with in-line citations

Findings come back as a report in which statements carry in-line citations that lead to the source paper, alongside a paper list you can sort and filter to judge relevance.

Chat and custom tables

After a search you can brainstorm with an assistant grounded in the papers it found, extract details from full texts and generate custom tables.

Alerts for new papers

Undermind keeps track of your areas of interest and notifies you when relevant papers are published.

Agent connections over MCP

An MCP server lets assistants and coding agents such as Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and VS Code run Undermind searches. Connecting agents is included in the Free plan.

Full-text search on Pro

The Free tier searches abstracts and metadata. Pro adds compute to search the full texts of nearly all open-access and preprint articles.

Edison Scientific

Pricing could not be confirmed. See edisonscientific.com.

Undermind

• Free$0

  Chat, deep searches and reports with standard rate limits, shared workspaces and agent connections over MCP.

• Pro (Academic)$16

  per month, billed annually ($192); $20 billed monthly

  The newest AI models, full-text analysis, 10x higher usage limits, and unlimited workspaces, files and paper libraries.

• Pro (Industry)$60

  per month, billed annually ($720); $75 billed monthly

  The same Pro features at the industry rate.

• Team (Academic)$15

  per person / month, billed annually; $18.70 billed monthly

  From 3 seats. Pro features plus member management, priority support and central billing. Falls to $12.50 per person at 60 or more seats.

• Team (Industry)$60

  per person / month, billed annually; $75 billed monthly

  From 3 seats at the industry rate, with member management, priority support and central billing.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Increased compute, sitewide organizational login, an admin dashboard, onboarding seminars, and custom terms, SLA and security review.

Edison Scientific

No public discounts listed.

Undermind

• Annual discount

  Save 20% with annual billing

  Pro is $16 a month billed annually against $20 billed monthly at the academic rate, and $60 against $75 at the industry rate. The pricing section labels this a 20% saving.

• Education

  Academic pricing from $16 a month

  Choosing Academic in the pricing section shows Pro at $16 a month billed annually or $20 billed monthly, against $60 and $75 under Industry.

• Other savings

  Volume pricing on academic Team plans

  On annual billing the academic Team price per person is $15 for 3 to 10 seats, $14.17 for 11 to 25, $13.33 for 30 to 50 and $12.50 for 60 to 200.