Consensus vs ChatGPT vs Paperguide

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Your tool Consensus
consensus.app
Scientific answers from peer-reviewed research
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Competitor ChatGPT
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Your AI assistant for everything
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Competitor Paperguide
paperguide.ai
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
5.8Mvisits/mo
5.6Bvisits/mo
262.6Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 3.5%
▲ 3.5%
▲ 4.7%
6-month growth
+14.4%
-1.6%
+44.6%
Global rank web
#9,859
#7
#182,104
Avg. last 3 months
5.5M
5.5B
266.5K
Bounce rate lower is better
43%
30%
44%
Pages / visit
4.1
4.3
2.3
Visit duration
3m 56s
6m 35s
1m 32s
Traffic sources
● Direct 84% · ● Referral 14%
● Direct 95% · ● Referral 3%
● Direct 80% · ● Referral 14%
ConsensusChatGPTPaperguide
01.5B2.9B4.4B5.8BConsensus · 4.4MConsensus · 4.1MConsensus · 3.9MConsensus · 4MConsensus · 5.1MConsensus · 5.9MConsensus · 5.7MConsensus · 5MConsensus · 5.6MConsensus · 5.8MChatGPT · 5.8BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.7BChatGPT · 5.4BChatGPT · 5.7BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.6BChatGPT · 5.4BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.6BPaperguide · 181KPaperguide · 215.1KPaperguide · 183.1KPaperguide · 181.6KPaperguide · 232.2KPaperguide · 282.6KPaperguide · 286.3KPaperguide · 250.7KPaperguide · 262.6K100K1M10M100M1B10BConsensus · 4.4MConsensus · 4.1MConsensus · 3.9MConsensus · 4MConsensus · 5.1MConsensus · 5.9MConsensus · 5.7MConsensus · 5MConsensus · 5.6MConsensus · 5.8MChatGPT · 5.8BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.7BChatGPT · 5.4BChatGPT · 5.7BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.6BChatGPT · 5.4BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.6BPaperguide · 181KPaperguide · 215.1KPaperguide · 183.1KPaperguide · 181.6KPaperguide · 232.2KPaperguide · 282.6KPaperguide · 286.3KPaperguide · 250.7KPaperguide · 262.6KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
$8.99per month · free tier available
$8per month · free tier available
$12per month · free tier available
Free tier
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Free FreeGo $8/moPlus $20/moPro 5x $100/mo+1 more
Free FreePlus $12/moPro $29/moEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
Text
AudioCodeDocumentsImagesText
DocumentsText
Output
Text
AudioCodeImagesText
DataDocumentsText
Skill level
Intermediate
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Productivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool+1 more
Chatbots & CompanionsDevelopment & CodeEducation & LearningImage Editing+27 more
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Research
Research papers
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Literature reviews
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Search engine
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Academic research
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Writing
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Chatbots
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Blogging
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Citations
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Coding
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Copywriting
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Email writing
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Essay writing
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Grammar checking
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Image generation
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Image to text
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Medical research
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Research papers analysis
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Research papers summaries
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Scientific literature exploration
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Scientific research
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Summarizing
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Translations
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Academic writing
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Code documentation
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Debugging
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Image editing
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Image to image
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Refactoring
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Research papers drafting
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