Consensus.
Ask a question. Read the papers behind it.
Search academic papers and get an answer with sources you can inspect. Deep and Skills can work through several research steps, trace citations or compare evidence. Read the papers before using the conclusion.
Getting started: EasyCreate an account, ask a focused research question and open the citations. Deep reviews and saved paper collections need more review. Our setup guide, not a performance score.
Good for
Students, researchers and curious readers who want to find and compare academic evidence, with citations they can check.
Start with
A browser, an account and time to read the source papers. Minimum age is 13; minors below the local age of majority need guardian agreement. Some institutional or discount offers have their own eligibility rules.
Cost
An ongoing free plan has limited AI use. Pro is $20/month or $144/year upfront. Deep is $65/month or $540/year upfront. Paid web reviews and optional API or connected-app usage have separate limits.
Plans and limits explainedFree searches, paid reviews and extra use.
- Free plan
- Current pricing and plan help list 10 Pro messages and up to 3 Deep reviews/month, plus basic paper search. The Deep guide lists 15 Pro messages instead. Check your account. Free Deep also uses a Pro message.
- Free trial
- An ongoing free plan is separate from a paid-plan trial. No general trial, its card terms or a no-card free signup was confirmed.
- Paid plans
- Pro $20/month or $144/year upfront includes 15 Deep reviews/month. Deep $65/month or $540/year upfront includes 200. Paid subscriptions renew until canceled; access continues through the paid period.
- Extra costs & limits
- API/MCP has separate included uses and paid overages from $0.05/use; large requests may consume more units. It does not buy more web Deep reviews. Team, institution and discount eligibility differ.
Prices in USD unless noted. Check the billing period; local prices, taxes and offers can differ.
Plan details
The free plan is ongoing. Monthly AI allowances are different from a trial, and an annual discount means paying the year upfront.
- Free$0
- Unlimited basic paper search. Current plan help lists 10 Pro messages, up to 3 Deep reviews, 10 Study Snapshots and 30 API/MCP calls per month. The Deep guide says 15 Pro messages instead; check your actual account. Deep also uses a Pro message.
- Pro$20 / month
- Or $144/year upfront, equivalent to $12/month. Advertised unlimited Pro messages and Study Snapshots; 15 Deep reviews per month. Includes 500 API/MCP uses per month.
- Deep$65 / month
- Or $540/year upfront, equivalent to $45/month. Includes 200 Deep reviews and 2,000 API/MCP uses per month. This is not unlimited Deep research.
- Connected-app and API usageSeparate usage charges
- Paid offers advertise $0.05 per use above included API/MCP allowances. Large paper requests can use extra units; check the API guide and spending limit. These are not extra web Deep reviews.
- Teams and institutionsSeparate offers
- Shared billing and per-user research allowances. Student, faculty and eligible US clinician discounts have their own checks; do not assume a discount applies to everyone.
Paid subscriptions renew until canceled; access continues through the paid period. No separate general paid-plan trial, its card terms or a no-card free signup was established. Read the actual offer. Prices checked 20 October 2026.
Pricing checked 20 Oct 2026.
Try something small.
- Find studies behind a learning claim
- Compare conflicting findings with their sources
- Build a reading list around one starting paper
Getting started.
Make a free account and ask one clear research question. Open the linked paper and check the cited passage. Use Deep only when a longer review is useful, and watch both the Pro and Deep counters.
A neat summary is not a complete or correct literature review. Some answers use abstracts rather than full text. Current pricing and plan help list 10 free Pro messages per month, while the Deep guide says 15. Start with the smaller allowance and check your account; a free Deep review also uses a Pro message.
Check one learning claim.
Try this task
- You’ll need
- A Consensus account with available Pro or Deep usage. No private data is needed.
- A request to copy
What does the research say about spaced practice in language learning? Find a few relevant studies, compare their methods and results, and link the sources. Include a disagreement or limitation. Tell me when the answer relies on an abstract rather than the full paper.
- What to expect
- A short evidence summary and a few papers to read yourself.
- How to check it is done
- Open the sources and check the populations, methods and cited passages. Look for evidence that challenges the summary.
Our suggested first task, not a hands-on test or a complete systematic review. Deep uses its own allowance and can also use a free Pro message.
Our suggested prompt, based on the linked source. We haven’t tested this task ourselves.
Source checked October 20, 2026.Checked 20 October 2026. Prices and access can change. Character art is our unofficial illustration.
The terms name Consensus NLP, Inc.; the official About page describes its San Francisco base. This is not a data-residency or worldwide-access guarantee.
