Consensus vs Sana AI

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.

Sana AI's Sana Agents is a knowledge assistant for organizations, designed to provide access to company information and automate routine tasks. Users can create customizable agents with chosen knowledge sources, tasks, and permissions. The service supports meeting recordings in Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet, and its integration collection includes Google Drive, Gmail, Outlook, Salesforce, Slack, Notion, Jira, and Confluence. Private integrations mirror each user's access in the connected system; access to shared integrations is managed in Sana. Sana says it encrypts data in transit and at rest, does not use customer data to train underlying language models, and is ISO 27001:2022 certified, SOC Type I and Type II certified, and GDPR compliant. Enterprise organizations can have their own single-tenant deployment. The Free tier costs nothing and permits up to five workspace members, 10 meetings and 20 chat messages per user each month, with unlimited agents and tasks. Team costs $30 a month per user and supports up to 50 members and 10,000 documents per integration. The iOS app supports the assistant, knowledge-base search, meeting management, and workspace information on iPhone and iPad.