Alternatives to Basis

Open-access research platform for building, training, and reproducing world model and self-supervised learning experiments.

Turn open-access research papers into audio podcasts and ask them questions by chat.

Consensus is an AI academic search engine that answers research questions with cited evidence from 220M+ peer-reviewed papers.

Open-source autonomous research agent that plans, reads sources in parallel, and writes cited reports you host yourself

ScienceClaw: a transparent, secure AI research assistant for literature review and data analysis.

Open-source, local-first AI workbench for the full scientific research lifecycle, with bundled scientific database tools and your choice of model provider.

OpenAI o1 is the 2024 reasoning model that thinks in chains of thought before answering — now reachable only on ChatGPT Plus and Pro under Legacy models, or

Search and read 81,735 modern Chinese poems free — an open-access modern Chinese poetry corpus for research and reading.

Free Stanford research prototype that turns a topic into a cited, Wikipedia-style report through simulated expert–learner AI dialogue.

AI co-scientist for biomedical research: multi-omics, drug discovery, and lab protocol reasoning

Genspark is an AI search workspace that turns cited Sparkpage research into slides, sheets, dashboards, and no-code agents.

AI co-researcher that runs deep literature search, follows citation trails, and surfaces the papers keyword search misses.

Anara is an AI research assistant that searches your library and the web and cites every answer to its exact source.

Free AI-powered research tool for searching 238 million scientific papers, with TLDR summaries and citation graphs.

Elicit is an AI research assistant that searches 138M+ papers and clinical trials, then writes fully cited evidence reviews.

Perplexity is a cited AI answer engine that puts a verifiable source link on every answer it gives.

Buildpad runs parallel AI market researchers to validate your startup idea before you build.

AI form builder that turns every Typeform response into automated GTM and research workflows

Upload a research paper, highlight confusing text, and get plain-language explanations from AI in 50+ languages.

Otio is a persistent AI research workspace that keeps every PDF, article, video and transcript you upload in one searchable library, with page-level citations

Comet is Perplexity's AI browser for research, agents, and automation across Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android.

Scite.ai is an AI research assistant that classifies citations as supporting or contrasting, grounding every answer in real papers

Scholarcy is an AI academic summarizer that turns research papers and PDFs into interactive summary flashcards, notes, and study guides.

AI research workspace that searches, reads, and cites your document library with verifiable source references.

AI market intelligence platform that turns 500M+ premium finance documents into cited, no-hallucination research.

Sharly AI is a document research workspace that summarizes, compares, and cites your files with verifiable sources.

AI-powered literature mapping for research discovery

Source-grounded AI research assistant that cites the documents you upload — now called Gemini Notebook

Kimi Chat is Moonshot AI's agentic AI workspace for coding, deep research, and document generation.

Chinese-language search engine that returns cited, synthesized answers instead of link lists.