Consensus vs Scholarcy
No clear leader: Scholarcy (50.7) and Consensus (48.0) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for ai research agents. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Consensus
Consensus helps researchers, clinicians, and students quickly find answers by searching through 220+ million peer-reviewed studies and using AI to synthesize findings with linked citations. Users can verify sources themselves by examining the original research, methodology, and study conclusions.
Scholarcy
A platform that automatically converts academic papers and research documents into digestible summaries, flashcards, and organized collections, helping researchers save time and understand complex research more effectively.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Consensus
Free tier available. Paid plans available. API pricing from $0.10 per call plus platform fee.
- FreeFree
- Search peer-reviewed research
- AI-powered synthesis
- Citation linking
- Paid-
Scholarcy
Free tier with 1 summary/day limit. Paid subscription plans available monthly and annually with 25% annual discount.
- Free Article SummarizerFree
- 1 summary per day limit
- Import range of file formats
- Export flashcards one at a time
- Scholarcy Plus-
- Unlimited summarization
- Generate enhanced summaries
- Save your flashcards
- Take notes, highlight and edit text
- Organise flashcards into collections
- +3 more
- Scholarcy Plus Annual25% discount vs. monthly
- Unlimited summarization
- Generate enhanced summaries
- Save your flashcards
- Take notes, highlight and edit text
- Organise flashcards into collections
- +3 more
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
- Zotero
- Mendeley
Consensus
- OpenAI
- ChatGPT
- EndNote
Scholarcy
- Google Scholar
- OpenAlex
- PubMed
- Scite.AI
- LibKey
- Notion
- Obsidian
- Google Drive
- RSS
- Word
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- Markdown
- BibTeX
- RIS
- NBIB
- Mindimo
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.