Free Research AI Tools

Live, in-browser tracker and analytics that measures what share of new Hacker News story titles mention “AI” (with strict and extended matching), showing real-time counters, charts over selectable ranges, and historical data back to 2007.

PilotCite is a SaaS platform that helps brands monitor and improve their visibility in AI-generated answers (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Grok) by tracking citations, auditing site citability, benchmarking competitors, and generating source-backed content.

The Token Times is a free, monthly eight-page newspaper covering the AI industry—model prices, funding rounds, launches, and obituaries for retired models—published by Failproof AI and distributed via email and online.

SysEdge is an ontological knowledge graph and CLI for multi-agent Claude Code and Kimi Code teams that models requirements, tests, and architecture standards to surface specification, test, and standards gaps before code ships and to reduce agent orientation tokens.

Korvo is a local-first private research and decision workspace for macOS that organizes files, generates and verifies evidence-backed analyses using connected models (cloud or local), preserves decision history, and supports a two-model critique workflow.

Starwell is a verified data layer for AI that harmonizes official statistics into a single REST API and MCP server, returning values with provenance, citations, and license information to prevent numerical hallucinations by agents.

Embench is a browser-based retrieval lab that lets you index a corpus and compare retrieval stacks (semantic, BM25 keyword, grep, hybrid, and reranked) side-by-side with inline evaluation metrics (precision, recall, MRR). It provides embedded open-source models and a stable JSON REST contract for runs.

A 2026 open-access preprint reporting an empirical study that measures disagreement among five frontier large language models (LLMs) when adjudicating 1,000 real-world fact-checking claims; includes dataset, harness, and raw results.

AI Tracker is a live analytics dashboard that shows which AI tools the world is searching for and using, combining Google search-share, developer signals (SDK downloads, GitHub momentum, model downloads), and attention metrics with country-level maps, trends and an archive.

Holder Dashboard is a web-based stock research tool for exploring historical fundamental rankings, comparing companies, and tracking how consistently they ranked over time. Its free archive covers 1996–2021, with membership extending research through recent years and today.

TokViewr is a free, browser-based TikTok viewer that lets users anonymously browse public TikTok profiles, videos, comments and follower/following lists and export public data to CSV without signing into TikTok.

Jenni is an AI-powered writing and research workspace for academics and researchers that helps read, write, cite, and verify claims with traceable, source-grounded AI suggestions.

aisummary is an AI-powered article summarizer that reads any web link and returns a 150-word summary, five bullet points, and a single memorable line — designed to help readers quickly decide whether to read the full piece.

Linfo.ai is an AI-powered summarization Chrome extension and web tool that extracts structured takeaways and generates mind maps from articles, reports, PDFs, and YouTube videos to help professionals and students quickly capture key insights.

ResearchPal is an AI-powered workspace for academic research and writing that combines literature search, citation management, paper analysis, PDF chat, and AI-assisted writing into one platform for students, researchers, and academic professionals.

OpenRead is an AI-powered research intelligence platform that aggregates fresh academic papers and provides tools for paper comparison, AI chat/Q&A, notes, and discovery to streamline literature review and research workflows.

Recall is an AI-first knowledge base that saves, summarizes, organizes, and lets you chat with your personal collection of content (videos, podcasts, PDFs, articles, notes, and more) using models like GPT, Claude, and Gemini.

Apollo AI is an AI research assistant for academics, researchers, and students that analyzes long PDFs and academic papers, summarizes videos, conducts deep web research with verified citations, and generates publication-ready charts and visualizations.

BioRender is a web-based scientific figure and illustration platform that helps scientists create publication-ready figures, graphs, flowcharts, protocols, timelines and slides using a large library of scientifically accurate icons, templates and AI-assisted editing tools.

AskNews is a licensed, AI-native news infrastructure that converts real-time and historical news (including paywalled sources) into structured, model-ready context for LLMs, agents, forecasting systems, and production research workflows.

G Maps Extractor (Google Maps Scraper) is a cloud-based tool and browser extension that extracts structured business data from Google Maps—including names, addresses, phones, emails, reviews, photos and social profiles—and exports results to CSV/JSON/Excel for lead generation, research, and CRM workflows.

AlphaResearch is an AI-powered research platform for investors that extracts insights from unstructured text (filings, transcripts, press releases) and combines them with institutional-grade fundamentals, estimates and analytics for stock research and financial modeling.

ScholarAI is an AI-powered research assistant and paper search platform that helps researchers, students, developers, and clinical teams find, summarize, cite, and draft from real peer-reviewed papers, and integrates with writing tools like Jenni.

DeepSeek R1 is an open-source, reinforcement-learning–trained reasoning large language model (MoE architecture) optimized for advanced mathematical reasoning, multi-step reflection, code generation, and long-context tasks, available as in-browser WebGPU demos, downloadable distilled weights (1.5B–70B), and an OpenAI-compatible API.