Best current tools
Perplexity
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Perplexity
Best for: Fast, cited answers from the live web
Price: Free; Pro $17/mo billed annually; Max $167/mo billed annually
NotebookLM
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Google
Best for: Asking questions across your own PDFs, notes and transcripts
Price: Free with a Google account; higher limits via Google AI plans (third-party price check, Oct 2026)
ChatGPT deep research
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OpenAI
Best for: Multi-step web research reports
Price: Limited on Free and Go; expanded on Plus $20/mo; Pro from $100/mo (third-party price check, Oct 2026)
Elicit
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Elicit
Best for: Systematic literature reviews and data extraction from papers
Price: Basic free; Pro $49/user/mo billed annually (third-party price check, Oct 2026)
Consensus
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Consensus
Best for: Quick answers grounded in peer-reviewed papers
Price: Free; Pro $20/mo or $144/yr (third-party price check, Oct 2026)
Scite
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Scite (Research Solutions)
Best for: Seeing whether later papers support or contrast a claim
Price: Limited free; Basic $20/mo (third-party price check, Oct 2026)
New this week
October 12, 2026 to October 18, 2026, newest first.
Gemini 4 Argon (general availability)
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Google DeepMind
Google's new frontier model, now broadly available in the Gemini API, Antigravity and the Gemini app; strong at coding, long multi-step tasks and research.
Best for: Hard coding refactors, agentic work in Antigravity, and deep research or analysis
Price: Paid: API intro price $2/$10 per 1M input/output tokens until Nov 30, 2026 (then $4/$20); in the Gemini app for Google AI Pro and Ultra
Earlier
GPT-6 and Intelligent UI in ChatGPT
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OpenAI
GPT-6 rolls out to all ChatGPT users with Intelligent UI, so answers can include charts, forms, buttons and mini-tools, and it starts answering while it thinks.
Best for: Everyday writing, learning and quick interactive tools inside ChatGPT
Price: Freemium: Free and Go get GPT-6 Luna (from Oct 8); Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise get GPT-6 Sol
Claude for Google Workspace (beta)
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Anthropic
A Claude sidebar inside Google Docs, Sheets and Slides that reads the open file and edits it in place, plus new Docs, Sheets and Slides connectors.
Best for: Writing, rewriting and spreadsheet analysis for people who work in Google Workspace
Price: Paid: beta on Claude Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise
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