Consensus vs Felo AI Research

Consensus is an AI workspace and academic search engine for scientific research, available on web, Android, iOS, and as an extension. It searches more than 220 million peer-reviewed papers, with the database updated weekly, and offers filters for publication date, access, citations, journal rank, study design, population, sample size, and other paper details. Its Research Agent plans multi-step searches, uses tools such as citation crawling and DOI lookup, and returns citation-backed answers. Consensus says citations in its AI summaries correspond to exact paper quotes, with the relevant section identified and PDF text highlighted when available. Medical Mode searches a selected collection of about 8 million papers and 50,000 clinical guidelines from the top 1,000 medical journals. Users can import Zotero libraries and export CSV or RIS files for reference managers. Consensus also works in ChatGPT, Claude, and Microsoft 365 Copilot; API and MCP calls share a monthly allowance. The Free Tier costs nothing. Pro is $20 a month, or $144/year billed annually; Deep is $65 a month, or $540/year billed annually.

Felo AI Research is a research agent that turns a topic into sub-questions, searches autonomously, and synthesizes results into a report. Felo says it searches more than 200 million academic papers and global sources across 30+ languages, including live X/Twitter posts alongside web and academic material. Its conclusions include citations linking to original papers. A session can produce a structured report, presentation, mind map, or interactive web page; presentations can be customized and exported at up to about 40 pages. Felo LiveDoc can analyze uploaded PDFs, Excel files, and meeting notes with web research, and reports can be saved to Google Drive and Google Docs. The listed platforms are Android, iOS, web, and API. The free Standard plan includes 200 bonus credits per day, unlimited high-speed search, five professional searches per day, and three file analyses per day, but excludes API access. Felo Pro costs $14.99 a month or $149.99 a year and includes 15,000 credits per month, about 100 deep research tasks per month, the full model lineup, and Pro tools.