Is Consensus still around? (2026)
Yes. Consensus is live and reachable, price-verified as of Sep 8, 2026.
Held steady at $10/mo the whole tracked window (19 days).
Reachable 100% of 19 tracked days.
First-party daily snapshots. One reading per day, grows over time.
What Consensus is
What sets it apart Consensus Meter aggregating study conclusions
Best for gauging scientific agreement on a question · Pricing model Free tier with limited deep searches; Pro at $10/user/mo; Deep at $45/user/mo; student discounts available
Consensus searches peer reviewed papers and returns the actual findings as short claim summaries, with a Consensus Meter that shows how much studies agree on yes or no questions. It draws on the Semantic Scholar corpus of over 200 million papers. Founded in 2021, it later added deep search features for longer literature analysis.
Sources consensus.app · help.consensus.app · costbench.com
The fine print, checked
What the free plan really caps, whether your data can leave, and how cancelling works. Each fact read on Consensus's own pages, linked below.
Consensus has a free plan at $0/mo with basic paper search, 15 Pro messages per month, and up to 3 Deep reviews per month. The cheapest paid plan is Pro at $12/mo (or $144 billed annually), which adds unlimited Pro messages and 15 Deep reviews per month.
Consensus Pricing · checked Aug 1, 2026
You can export search results with the Export button and pick CSV, RIS, or a formatted bibliography (APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, BibTeX, or AMA). Papers saved in My Library download as CSV or RIS for reference managers like Zotero and EndNote.
Consensus Help Center · checked Aug 1, 2026
You cancel it yourself in Profile > Settings > Subscription > Cancel plan. Cancelling stops future charges and you keep Premium access until the end of the current billing period, after which the account drops to the free tier.
Consensus Help Center · checked Aug 1, 2026
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