Independent AI agent reference

Research AI Agents

15 AI agents for research, documented by capability, autonomy, and pricing.

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Cognosys
Cognosys AI, Inc.

Goal-driven web AI agent that ran research and automation tasks (now deprecated)

SupervisedAI Agent Platform
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Consensus

AI search engine that finds and synthesizes scientific evidence

AssistantResearch
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DeepSeek
DeepSeek (Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence)

Open-weight LLMs plus a free chat assistant and a low-cost OpenAI-compatible API

AssistantConversational AI
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Elicit
Elicit Research

AI research assistant that automates literature and systematic reviews

AssistantResearch
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Genspark
MainFunc

AI Super Agent that produces decks, sheets, sites, and even phone calls

SupervisedGeneral Assistant
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Google Gemini
Google

Google's AI assistant: chat, Workspace drafting, deep research, and agents

CopilotGeneral Assistant
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Hebbia

Enterprise AI research agent for finance and legal document analysis (Matrix)

SupervisedResearch
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Kimi
Moonshot AI

Moonshot AI's long-context chat assistant with research, coding, and agent modes

AssistantConversational AI
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Lexis+ AI
LexisNexis (RELX)

LexisNexis generative-AI legal research and drafting assistant, grounded in primary law

SupervisedLegal AI
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Manus
Butterfly Effect

Autonomous general AI agent that runs whole tasks in a cloud sandbox

Autonomous43% loved
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NotebookLM
Google

Source-grounded AI research and notes assistant with audio overviews

AssistantResearch
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Perplexity
Perplexity AI

AI answer engine with supervised research, agentic browsing, and shopping

Supervised61% loved
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SciSpace
SciSpace (Typeset)

AI research assistant for finding, understanding, and reviewing scientific papers

AssistantResearch
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Undermind

Agentic deep-search engine that finds every relevant paper on a scientific question

AssistantResearch
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You.com

Answer engine and supervised research agents (ARI) with grounding APIs

SupervisedResearch
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