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The Stack / Research
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 | Quick Search with abstract summaries; 3 Deep Searches/mo |
| Pro | $20/mo | $144/yr annual (≈$12/mo); unlimited Pro search and study snapshots, includes 15 Deep Searches/mo. Verified academic email gets ~40% off |
| Deep | $65/mo | $45/user/mo billed annually; everything in Pro plus 200 Deep Searches/mo; Teams/Enterprise custom |
Pricing verified 2026-08-05. Plans change — the source of truth is Consensus's own pricing page.
Models & versions
- Consensus MeterAggregates 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
- 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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Perplexity
01 IntelligenceThe research seat: current-events questions, competitive research, and any claim you need sourced before it ships.
Gemini Notebook (was NotebookLM)
01 IntelligenceThe source-grounded seat: synthesizing your documents, transcripts, and research into answers that cite themselves.