About Consensus
Consensus is an AI-powered academic search engine built around a single, powerful idea: instead of just finding papers, it tells you what the science actually says. Consensus searches through 220 million+ peer-reviewed research papers and provides the best insights from them, helping researchers find better papers, faster. Ask it a research question in plain English — "Does intermittent fasting improve metabolic health?" or "What is the most effective treatment for adolescent anxiety?" — and it returns not just a list of studies but a synthesized, evidence-backed answer drawn directly from the peer-reviewed literature, with each claim traceable to its source paper. Consensus features AI-enabled search filters that are among the most sophisticated available, allowing researchers to filter studies by sample size, population type (human, animal, or in vitro), study design (meta-analyses, systematic reviews, RCTs, observational studies), and journal prestige — ensuring you always reach the most authoritative, relevant evidence for your specific question. The Study Snapshot feature gives you a one-click summary of any paper's population, methodology, sample size, and duration right on the results page, eliminating the need to open each paper just to assess relevance. Its Deep Research feature goes further still — automatically creating and running a full search strategy, finding and screening up to 1,000 papers, then providing a detailed report on the top 50 most relevant papers — a task that would previously take days of manual work. The Consensus Pro subscription costs $120 per year or $15 per month and provides unlimited Pro Analysis with AI-powered summaries of up to 20 papers per search, unlimited Study Snapshots, and 15 Deep Reviews per month across up to 50 papers per review. The free tier gives unlimited basic searches to get started. For students writing literature reviews, clinicians checking treatment evidence, policy makers assessing what research supports, and academics who need quick, reliable answers grounded in science, Consensus is one of the most uniquely valuable AI tools in the academic space.
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