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Consensus
01 IntelligenceYes for creators and operators who make health, performance, or science-adjacent claims — Consensus's meter (X% of studies support this) is the fastest honest way to check a claim before publishing it. Pro at $12/month on annual billing is still cheap insurance against confidently wrong content; pay monthly and you're at $20, which is a harder sell for occasional checking.
The job in the stack
The evidence-check seat: fast answers from peer-reviewed research, with a consensus meter instead of vibes.
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Basic paper search without AI analysis, plus 10 Pro (AI-analysis) messages/mo and up to 3 Deep reviews/mo |
| Pro | $20/mo | $144/yr annual (≈$12/mo); unlimited Pro search and study snapshots, includes 15 Deep Searches/mo plus 500 API/MCP uses/mo ($0.05/use after, up to 1,000). Verified academic email or US HCP with NPI gets up to 40% off |
| Deep | $65/mo | $45/user/mo billed annually; everything in Pro plus 200 Deep Searches/mo and 2,000 API/MCP uses/mo ($0.05/use after, up to 10,000); Teams/Enterprise custom |
Pricing verified 2026-10-14. Plans change — the source of truth is Consensus's own pricing page.
Models & versions
- Consensus Meter Aggregates study findings into support/against/mixed percentages over 200M+ papers
The honest read
What works
- + The meter forces intellectual honesty — you see the disagreement, not one cherry-picked study
- + Fast enough to check claims mid-writing session
- + Study snapshots surface sample sizes and methods without opening PDFs
What breaks
- − Consensus isn't correctness — newer or better studies can outweigh a count
- − Depth per paper is shallow; real reviews graduate to Elicit
- − Coverage outside health/science topics thins out fast
Use it for
- →Fact-checking claims before they ship in content
- →Health, fitness, and productivity writers
- →Fast evidence scans during research sessions
Skip it if
- ×You need current-events sourcing — that's Perplexity
- ×You're doing systematic extraction across papers — that's Elicit
Questions operators ask
?Can I trust the Consensus Meter?
Trust it to show the distribution of findings — that's what it measures. Don't outsource judgment to it: check study quality and recency on anything that matters. It kills cherry-picking; it doesn't replace reading.
What changed
- Re-verified on consensus.app/pricing: Pro $144/yr (shown as $12/mo, saving $96 vs $20 monthly), Deep $540/yr ($45/mo, saving $240 vs $65 monthly); 15 and 200 Deep reviews/mo; 500 and 2,000 API/MCP uses. Free: 10 Pro messages and 3 Deep reviews/mo. Up to 40% off for students, faculty and US HCPs. No changes.
- Re-verified on consensus.app/pricing (both toggles): Pro $20 monthly / $12 annual ($144/yr), Deep $65 / $45 ($540/yr) unchanged; 500 and 2,000 included API/MCP uses unchanged; up-to-40% academic/NPI discount holds. Free tier wording changed: it's now basic paper search without AI analysis, plus 10 Pro messages and up to 3 Deep reviews a month. Replaced our 'Quick Search with abstract summaries' note. 'Deep Searches' are now called 'Deep reviews'.
- Freshness sweep against consensus.app/pricing (toggled both Monthly and Annual views) — Pro $20/mo ($12/mo, $144/yr annual) and Deep $65/mo ($45/mo, $540/yr annual) both confirmed unchanged. Added detail: Pro includes 500 API & MCP uses/mo, Deep includes 2,000/mo, both $0.05/use beyond the included amount. Note: several third-party "pricing 2026" roundups for a same-named sales-demo tool called Consensus surfaced in search — unrelated company, ignore.
- Price increase. Pro is now $20/mo month-to-month, $144/yr annually (≈$12/mo, up from $120/yr). Deep's $45 is the annual rate; month-to-month is $65. Free tier documented properly: 3 Deep Searches/mo. Added the ~40% verified-academic-email discount.
- Released from staging to the live stack. Re-verified and filled in Deep tier price: $45/user/mo for 200 Deep Searches/mo; Pro's own 15 Deep Searches/mo allowance confirmed.
- Added to the stack (evidence-check seat). Verified: Free tier, Pro $15/mo ($120/yr), Deep tier with 200 Deep Searches.
Give Consensus a job
The evidence-check seat: fast answers from peer-reviewed research, with a consensus meter instead of vibes.
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