Real-time AI answer engine and research workspace combining live web citations with frontier reasoning models.
Real-time AI answer engine and research workspace combining live web citations with frontier reasoning models.
Consensus records 6,014,388 monthly visits with -1.2% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. CrowdView records 0 monthly visits with 0% growth and Free pricing.
Search real conversations across forums and niche communities
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| Official Domain | consensus.app | crowdview.ai |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Free |
| Monthly Visits | 6.01M (6,014,388) | 0 (0) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | -71.39K (-1.2%) | 0 (0%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (12.8%) | 🌐 Global (—) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 2.92M | 0 |
| User Rating | 4.7 | 4.3 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |

AI academic search engine for peer-reviewed science
Ask a research question in plain language and get answers synthesized from peer-reviewed studies, with each claim linked to its source paper.
A visual summary shows how the scientific literature leans on a yes/no question, indicating agreement, disagreement or mixed evidence.
Narrow results by study design, sample size, journal quality, publication year and more to prioritize high-quality evidence.
Aggregate findings across many studies into structured summaries that map what is known and where the gaps are.
Search real conversations across forums and niche communities
Results come from forums, message boards and discussion platforms rather than the general web, so you see genuine user opinions.
Query an enormous corpus of threads and comments in natural language and get whole conversations, not isolated pages.
The homepage offers example searches covering gadgets, gear and hobbies to show how to phrase community-focused questions.
You can start searching immediately without creating an account.
Real-time AI answer engine and research workspace combining live web citations with frontier reasoning models.
Real-time AI answer engine and research workspace combining live web citations with frontier reasoning models.

A free, AI-powered academic search engine for 240M+ papers across every scientific field
A free, AI-powered academic search engine for 240M+ papers across every scientific field

A paid, ad-free search engine that answers to its users
A paid, ad-free search engine that answers to its users

Provides deeper PDF reading and interactive literature analysis tools, but is less focused on quick evidence aggregation.
Provides deeper PDF reading and interactive literature analysis tools, but is less focused on quick evidence aggregation.
Performs advanced systematic review data extraction and evidence synthesis, but has a more complex interface than Consensus.
Performs advanced systematic review data extraction and evidence synthesis, but has a more complex interface than Consensus.
SpecialistThe AI workspace where researchers read, write, and cite with every claim traceable to its source
SpecialistThe AI workspace where researchers read, write, and cite with every claim traceable to its source
SpecialistAI-assisted systematic review software for screening, extraction, and evidence synthesis at scale
SpecialistAI-assisted systematic review software for screening, extraction, and evidence synthesis at scale
AI answers grounded in 300M+ scholarly full texts
AI answers grounded in 300M+ scholarly full texts

SpecialistExcellent for visual citation mapping and literature discovery, but lacks automated paper Q&A and evidence synthesis.
SpecialistExcellent for visual citation mapping and literature discovery, but lacks automated paper Q&A and evidence synthesis.
A free AI answer engine that cites its sources
A free AI answer engine that cites its sources
Explore the academic literature as a visual graph of related papers
Explore the academic literature as a visual graph of related papers
Free / Open-sourceTurn Discord community threads into searchable, AI-answerable content
Free / Open-sourceTurn Discord community threads into searchable, AI-answerable content