AI Research & academia tools
Curated list of AI tools for Research & academia with verified availability, pricing and underlying model evidence.
24 tools
Kaggle
freemiumData science competitions and GPU notebooks.
Hugging Face
freemiumThe open platform for AI models and datasets.
Gradio
open-sourceShare ML demos with a Python web UI in minutes.
LlamaIndex
open-sourceData framework for RAG and agent applications.
LangChain
open-sourceFramework for building LLM and agent applications.
NanoBench
open-sourceFast AI coding agent benchmark suite.
Heyday
freemiumAI memory assistant that recalls what you read.
Nuster
freemiumAI research and book summaries.
Consensus
freemiumSearch engine that answers with scientific evidence.
Semantic Scholar
freeFree AI-powered academic paper search.
STORM
freeStanford tool that writes Wikipedia-style articles from questions.
GPT Researcher
open-sourceAutonomous AI agent for deep research reports.
Revisely
freemiumAI study tool for notes, flashcards and quizzes.
AskYourPDF
freemiumChat with documents and extract answers instantly.
AIPDF
freemiumChat with your PDF documents.
QuillBot
freemiumAI paraphrasing, grammar and summarizing tool.
Zotero
freeOpen-source reference manager with AI plugins.
SciSpace
freemiumAI research assistant for reading and explaining papers.
DeepL
freemiumPremium AI translation with natural results.
Stable Diffusion
open-sourceOpen-weight image generation model you can run anywhere.
Perplexity
freemiumAI search engine that answers with cited sources.
Metaso (秘塔AI搜索)
freemiumChinese AI search engine with clean, citation-rich answers.
Kimi
freemiumMoonshot AI's assistant with a huge context window and strong Chinese.
DeepSeek
freemiumHigh-performance open-weight Chinese AI assistant and reasoning model.