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title: "The AI Tools Index"
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# Research — The AI Tools Index

> The AI Tools Index is a browsable index of live AI tools organized by category, including tools currently for sale. Every listing links to the maker's real product, and any paid placement is always labeled "Sponsored."

Canonical HTML: https://theaitoolsindex.com/category/research
This representation: Accept: text/markdown on the same URL.
Agent map: https://theaitoolsindex.com/llms.txt · OpenAPI: https://theaitoolsindex.com/openapi.json · MCP: https://theaitoolsindex.com/api/mcp/mcp

## Listings

- [Kompas AI](https://theaitoolsindex.com/tools/kompas-ai) — Kompas AI — an AI research report tool, made for research teams.
- [Andi](https://theaitoolsindex.com/tools/andi) — Andi — an AI answer search engine, made for everyday searchers.
- [Liner](https://theaitoolsindex.com/tools/liner) — Liner — an AI research and reading assistant, made for students.
- [ResearchRabbit](https://theaitoolsindex.com/tools/researchrabbit) — ResearchRabbit — a paper discovery tool, made for researchers.
- [Afforai](https://theaitoolsindex.com/tools/afforai) — Afforai — an AI research assistant, made for knowledge workers.
- [SciSpace](https://theaitoolsindex.com/tools/scispace) — SciSpace — an AI tool for reading research, made for students.
- [Exa](https://theaitoolsindex.com/tools/exa) — Exa — an AI search engine for developers, made for developers.
- [Undermind](https://theaitoolsindex.com/tools/undermind) — Undermind — a deep research search tool, made for researchers.
- [Scholarcy](https://theaitoolsindex.com/tools/scholarcy) — Scholarcy — a research paper summarizer, made for students.
- [Scite](https://theaitoolsindex.com/tools/scite) — Scite — a smart citation research tool, made for academics.
- [Consensus](https://theaitoolsindex.com/tools/consensus) — Consensus — an AI search engine for research, made for researchers.
- [Elicit](https://theaitoolsindex.com/tools/elicit) — Elicit — an AI research assistant for papers, made for researchers.
- [Genspark](https://theaitoolsindex.com/tools/genspark) — Genspark — an AI search agent, made for deep researchers.
- [Gemini Notebook](https://theaitoolsindex.com/tools/notebooklm) — Answers limited to the documents you upload
- [Perplexity](https://theaitoolsindex.com/tools/perplexity) — Answer engine that cites its sources inline
- [You.com](https://theaitoolsindex.com/tools/you-com) — AI search that routes to several models
- [Semantic Scholar](https://theaitoolsindex.com/tools/semantic-scholar) — Free academic search from the Allen Institute