Free Research AI Tools

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.

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.

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.

Mathpix provides OCR-powered document conversion tools and developer APIs to convert PDFs and images into searchable, exportable, machine-readable text with deep STEM support for math, chemistry, handwriting, tables, and multilingual content.

Semantic Scholar is a free, AI-powered research tool from the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) for discovering and reading scientific literature, offering search across hundreds of millions of papers, an API for developers, and an augmented reader (Semantic Reader) in beta.

ChatDox is an AI-powered platform that lets users ask questions and get summaries from documents, YouTube videos, websites, audio and video files, aimed at students, researchers, professionals, and businesses.

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Tech2Transfer is an AI-powered platform that analyzes scientific papers to assess technology readiness, IP strength, and market potential, helping researchers, universities, investors, and industry partners accelerate technology transfer and commercialization.

Bunni is a web tool that lets you upload PDFs to summarize, extract information, and chat with one or multiple documents in any language using large language models; it offers pay-as-you-go credit bundles with no recurring fees.

User Intuition is an AI-moderated customer research platform that runs voice, video, and chat interviews at scale, using laddering (5–7 levels) to deliver evidence-backed qualitative findings in 24 hours from a 4M+ verified panel or your own customers.

RapidoForm is an AI-powered, media-enabled form and survey platform that builds surveys, quizzes, and studies from simple prompts and supports audio/video responses, AI analytics, and integrations — positioned as a free, professional alternative to Typeform and Jotform.

ChatDox is an AI-powered document assistant that lets users chat with PDFs, DOCX, TXT, CSV, YouTube videos, websites, audio and video files to get summaries, answers, and analyses. It targets students, researchers, teachers, businesses, lawyers, podcasters and other professionals and offers free and paid plans.

Quetext is an online originality and writing-assistance platform offering DeepSearch™ plagiarism detection, AI content detection and remediation tools (AI Detector, AI Humanizer, AI Summarizer, AITutorMe), citation generation, grammar checking, bulk file scanning, and API and browser-extension access for individuals, educators, and teams.

ProxyShare is a commercial proxy and web data collection platform offering residential, static, ISP and data center proxies plus scraping APIs and tooling designed for large-scale web scraping, AI data collection, and automation across 195+ locations and a 75M+ residential IP pool.

Humata is an AI-powered document assistant that answers questions, summarizes, and extracts insights from uploaded files (especially PDFs), providing cited answers and team-focused features for research and knowledge management.

TubeOnAI is an all-in-one AI summarizer and repurposing platform that generates concise summaries and ready-to-publish content from videos, podcasts, articles, PDFs, slides, and other publicly available sources.

Sourcely is an AI-powered academic search assistant that finds, summarizes, and helps you cite credible scholarly sources from a corpus of 200+ million papers by pasting your essay or text and applying advanced filters.

ChatPDF is an AI-powered web app that lets you chat with PDFs and other documents to summarize, analyze, translate, and extract information with built-in citations. It targets researchers, students, and professionals and offers free and paid plans.

AskYourPDF is an AI-powered document assistant that lets users chat with, summarize, search, and manage PDF documents, fill PDF forms automatically, and embed an AI agent on websites. It offers apps, browser extensions, and integrations for academic and professional workflows.

Knowbase is an AI-powered knowledge base that turns documents, audio, video, and web content into a searchable AI assistant — offering document chat with clickable source citations, AI transcription with speaker diarization, and embeddable chatbot widgets for websites.

Bright Data is an all-in-one web data platform offering proxy infrastructure, web scraping APIs, pre-built scrapers, datasets, and data-delivery services designed for developers and enterprises to collect real-time, historical, and AI-ready web data at scale.