Consensus
Ask a question, get an answer backed by peer-reviewed papers.
About
Consensus is an AI search engine scoped to 200M+ peer-reviewed papers. Ask a question like "does intermittent fasting improve metabolic health?" and it synthesizes findings with citations instead of returning a link list. Its signature feature is the Consensus Meter, which shows how much of the relevant literature supports, refutes, or is mixed on a claim.
It also offers Study Snapshots (method and sample-size extraction), Ask Paper (chat with a study's full text), and a Deep review agent for longer reports. The free tier covers occasional use with monthly caps on Pro messages and Deep reviews; Pro starts around $10/month. Good for quick evidence checks, not a replacement for a registered systematic review.
What it can do
- Evidence-based Q&A over 200M+ papers
- Consensus Meter showing agreement across studies
- Study Snapshots with methods and sample sizes
- Ask Paper full-text chat
- Citation export to Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote
Setup
- Go to consensus.app and create a free account.
- Type a research question in plain language.
- Read the cited synthesis and check the Consensus Meter.
- Drill into individual studies or use Ask Paper for details.
- Save papers to your library and export citations.
Prerequisites
None for the free tier.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 7/10
Scored 7/10 (metrics tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: growing user base among researchers, clinicians, and students; actively developed; pricing restructured in 2026; proprietary; free tier with monthly caps. Manual review: Consensus Meter is genuinely useful; not a substitute for systematic review. License: Proprietary SaaS..
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 7.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 8.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 3.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 7.0/10
- · growing user base among researchers, clinicians, and students
- · actively developed; pricing restructured in 2026
- · proprietary; free tier with monthly caps
- · manual review: Consensus Meter is genuinely useful; not a substitute for systematic review
Sources
Every fact above was checked against these sources. Where a claim comes from the provider and couldn't be independently verified, the text says so.