# Consensus

> AI search engine that answers questions from peer-reviewed papers

Consensus is an AI search engine for academic research. It answers questions from an index of more than 220 million peer-reviewed papers and links each claim to the paper it came from. Deep Search plans and runs a literature search, screening up to 1,000 papers and reporting on the 50 most relevant. A paper library with Zotero import, a citation graph, an API and an MCP connector for AI assistants sit alongside search.

- **Category:** AI Research Tools
- **Made by:** Consensus NLP, Inc. (since 2021)
- **Website:** https://consensus.app
- **Runs on:** Web, Android
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 5, 2026

## Pricing

Consensus's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site.


## Ways to pay less

- **Up to 40% off for students, faculty and US clinicians** (Education): Students and faculty with a valid school email, and US clinicians with a valid NPI number, can claim up to 40% off. Consensus's pricing summary gives students 1 year free, then 40% off until graduation. Source: https://consensus.app/pricing/

## Key features

- **Cited answers from 220M+ papers:** Ask a research question in plain language and get a summary tied to its source papers, with filters for study type, journal rank, citation count, sample size and year.
- **Deep Search:** Builds and runs a search strategy, screens up to 1,000 papers and writes a report on the 50 most relevant. The monthly allowance depends on the plan.
- **Research agent:** Chains citation crawling, DOI lookup, author search and similar-paper search, and can build a comparison table from the full text of the results.
- **Citation Graph:** Starts from one or more seed papers and maps what they cite and what has cited them since. It is included with every account.
- **Library with Zotero import:** Imports papers from Zotero, BibTeX, RIS or PDF, then searches the collection, looks for gaps in it and generates bibliographies.
- **API and MCP connector:** The API returns ranked papers with metadata for use in other tools, and the MCP connector links Consensus search to ChatGPT, Claude and Copilot.

## Good for

- Checking what peer-reviewed studies say about a specific question
- Students and researchers starting a literature review
- Teams that want cited paper search inside ChatGPT, Claude or their own tools

## Worth knowing

- Paid prices could not be confirmed: the pricing page did not show them when read, and Consensus's own pricing summary leaves out dollar amounts.
- The free tier allows 10 Pro messages and 3 Deep Searches per month. Pro includes 15 Deep Searches, Deep 200 and Team 50 per seat.
- API calls beyond a plan's included credits cost $0.05 each; 500 are included on Pro, Team and Enterprise and 2,000 on Deep.
- An Android app is listed on Google Play. No iOS app was found on the US App Store when checked.

## Works with

Zotero, ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, LibKey

**Tags:** Research, AI search, Citations, AI agents, Public API

## Alternatives

- [Elicit](https://toolgpa.com/tools/elicit): AI research assistant for literature search and systematic reviews. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/consensus-vs-elicit)
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- [Scite](https://toolgpa.com/tools/scite): Research assistant that shows how papers have been cited. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/consensus-vs-scite)
- [Undermind](https://toolgpa.com/tools/undermind): AI literature search agent that reads hundreds of papers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/consensus-vs-undermind)
- [Semantic Scholar](https://toolgpa.com/tools/semantic-scholar): Free AI-powered search engine for scientific literature. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/consensus-vs-semantic-scholar)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 5, 2026:

- https://consensus.app/.well-known/pricing.md
- https://consensus.app/pricing/
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.consensus.android&gl=US
- https://consensus.app/home/about-us/
- https://consensus.app/home/features/research-agent/
- https://consensus.app/home/features/literature-review/
- https://consensus.app/home/features/citation-graph/
- https://consensus.app/home/features/library/
- https://consensus.app/home/api/
- https://consensus.app/home/mcp/
- https://consensus.app/home/terms-of-service/

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