Consensus vs Semantic Scholar

Side-by-side comparison of Consensus and Semantic Scholar: pricing, features, API access, and community ratings.

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	Consensus AI-powered academic search engine that finds answers in peer-reviewed research Visit	Semantic Scholar AI-powered academic search engine for scientific literature Visit
Category	Chat assistants	Chat assistants
Pricing	Freemium	Free
Starting price	USD 9.99/mo	Free
Free tier
Audience	All audiences	All audiences
API available
Open source
Self-hostable
Model provider	OpenAI	Allen Institute for AI (AI2)
Founded	2022	2015
Headquarters	San Francisco, US	Seattle, USA
Key strengths	·Searches exclusively peer-reviewed and scientific literature ·AI-synthesized consensus summaries across multiple papers ·Deep filtering by study type, population, methodology, and more ·Cited, evidence-backed answers rather than hallucinated content	·AI-powered semantic search across 200M+ academic papers ·Free public API for programmatic access to paper metadata ·Citation graph and influence analysis ·Auto-generated TLDRs for rapid paper comprehension