# Edison Scientific

> AI agents for scientific research, led by the Kosmos AI Scientist

Edison Scientific is a commercial spinout of the research lab FutureHouse that builds AI agents for scientific R&D. Its flagship agent, Kosmos, takes a research objective and datasets, reads the literature, writes and runs analysis code, and returns a cited report in which each conclusion can be traced to its code or source. Other agents on the platform handle literature search, data analysis, novelty checks and chemistry, and the company sells on-premises deployments to biopharma organizations.

- **Category:** AI Research Tools
- **Made by:** Edison Scientific (since 2025)
- **Website:** https://edisonscientific.com
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 5, 2026

## Pricing

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


## Key features

- **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.

## Good for

- 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

## Worth knowing

- 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.

## Works with

Slack, Microsoft Teams

**Tags:** Research, AI agents, Citations, Public API, Self-hostable

## Alternatives

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- [Undermind](https://toolgpa.com/tools/undermind): AI literature search agent that reads hundreds of papers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/edison-scientific-vs-undermind)
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## Sources

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

- https://edisonscientific.com
- https://docs.edisonscientific.com/
- https://docs.edisonscientific.com/agents
- https://docs.edisonscientific.com/edison-client/quickstart
- https://edisonscientific.com/news/announcing-edison-scientific
- https://advances.edisonscientific.com/research/announcing-kosmos/

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