Academic Research Agent
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market_report({ query: "Academic Research Agent", response_mode: "summary" })Agents · median
$21/mo
MCP servers · median
$29/mo
1.4×
MCPs cost 1.4× agents across all tiers — median $21 vs $29. Two different markets; a blended figure would mislead either buyer.
All plans — Agents vs MCPs
each dot = one provider · log scaleAgents $21
Scholarai Io · $10
Ai Assistant · $10
aria · $15
thesisai_research_suite_built_ · $25
Scholarai Io · $19
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thesisai_research_suite_built_ · $20
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MCP servers $29
gematrialens · $3
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AgentsMCP serversshaded = middle half · line = median
All plans
14 pricedProvidervs its cohort medianMonthly
gematrialensmcp
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provenanceaimcp
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Scholarai Ioagent
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Ai Assistantagent
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ariaagent
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$19 ~median
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Position is relative to the provider's own delivery-type median at this tier — never a blended one.
What the figures on this page are. This page is Agentery's fixed-niche view of Academic Research Agent (latest observation 2026-10-15T03:43:03.005Z). The headline medians above are computed from that data per delivery type and buyer-tier tab: on a tier tab, the median of each provider's plan at that tier; on “All”, every priced plan point across tiers pooled. Small cohorts show as “too few” rather than a median. The embedded response below is the broader fixed-niche report: its
by_provider_type.*.median pools all tiers, pricing.byPersona.* is per buyer tier, and the unit cohorts (e.g. Pro flat) are per tier and billing unit — so those blocks legitimately differ from one headline figure. Over MCP today the advertised tools are market_report (a semantic neighbourhood for your query, not this fixed niche) and price_benchmark (query/task); niche_report stays callable as a legacy alias. Their cohorts are defined differently, so their numbers can differ from this page.market_reportprice_benchmark
See the MCP response behind this pagefixed-niche report (legacy niche_report alias, full mode) — broader than the headline figure
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"free": 4
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"name": "Ai Assistant",
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"commitment": "monthly",
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"billing_verified": true
},
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"name": "Plus",
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},
{
"name": "Team",
"price": "Let's talk",
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},
{
"name": "Enterprise",
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"headline": "From $10/mo; $7.92/mo equivalent billed annually",
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},
"observed": true
},
{
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"name": "alexandria",
"price": {
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"currency": "USD",
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"name": "Free",
"price": "Free",
"kind": "free",
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}
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},
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"headline": "Free",
"summary": "Free. Alexandria is offered as a free MCP-powered philosophy search engine with no key required."
},
"observed": true
},
{
"agent_id": "aria",
"name": "ARIA",
"price": {
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},
"currency": "USD",
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{
"name": "Simple pricing",
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"kind": "base_subscription",
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}
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"billing": "subscription",
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"headline": "From $14.99/mo",
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},
"observed": true
},
{
"agent_id": "feynman",
"name": "Feynman",
"price": {
"observed": false,
"billing": "not_found",
"lowest_monthly_usd": null,
"monthly_usd": null,
"headline": "No public price found",
"summary": "No public pricing or paid plan amounts are shown on the homepage."
},
"observed": false
},
{
"agent_id": "openalex_mcp_server",
"name": "Openalex",
"price": {
"observed": false,
"billing": "not_found",
"lowest_monthly_usd": null,
"monthly_usd": null,
"headline": "No public price found",
"summary": "No public price found on the vendor site."
},
"observed": false
}
],
"suggested_next_calls": [
{
"tool": "price_benchmark",
"arguments": {
"niche": "academic-research-agent"
},
"purpose": "full observed price distribution + per-tier medians for this niche"
},
{
"tool": "niche_report",
"arguments": {
"niche": "academic-research-agent",
"response_mode": "full"
},
"purpose": "the complete report incl. index series and tier decomposition"
},
{
"tool": "suggest_alternatives",
"arguments": {
"agent_id": "ai_assistant"
},
"purpose": "comparable (optionally cheaper) providers to a named agent"
},
{
"tool": "get_agent_profile",
"arguments": {
"agent_id": "ai_assistant"
},
"purpose": "full profile, integrations and pricing for one provider"
}
]
}
}Full market
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ProviderTypeFromVs niche medianLiveness
Ai AssistantAnalyzes, summarizes, and answers questions about scholarly articles; enables chat with PDFs and discovery of themes/patterns/research-gaps across reference se…Aalexandriaprovides semantic search over classical philosophy and humanities texts
mcpFreefree to use—88% liveAARIAAutomates academic research: builds paper libraries from PubMed, analyzes and critiques studies, answers cited questions across the library, and drafts grants…
agent$14.99from / mo38.2% below88% live
Scholar Sidekickformats citations from academic paper identifiers and checks citation integrity
berean-aianswers biblical and theological questions with Reformed theology grounding and Scripture references
GematrialensAutomate your Gematria research with GematriaLens — analyze words and phrases across 80+ ciphers, find pattern matches with date numerology, custom dates (birt…
provenanceaitracks the full arc of AI-assisted work from sources and prompts to drafts and revisions for educational assessment
ResearchRabbitHelps researchers explore academic literature via interactive citation maps, paper recommendations, and author tracking
ScholarAIsearches peer-reviewed papers, summarizes research, organizes and generates citations, and drafts research writing
Semantic Scholarsearches and analyzes scientific literature to help researchers discover and read academic papers
Thesisai Research Suite BuiltAI-powered assistant for the academic thesis process—topic discovery, literature review, research gap analysis, drafting, summarization, citation, quality feed…
Alexandria Semantic RecallA local, offline MCP server for citation-integrity academic writing. It uses multilingual ONNX embeddings and LanceDB to semantically retrieve source passages…
BgptMCP server that enables AI agents to search daily-updated scientific papers and extract experimental data, methods, and findings. Integrates with Claude, Curso…
Openecon AiOpen-source AI infrastructure for economics research. Includes AI-powered data search, MCP servers for economic data and Stata integration, and writing assista…
PapersflowAI research workspace with 474M+ paper search, AI-powered literature reviews, LaTeX editor, citation management, and counter-evidence discovery for academic re…
SciclawOpen-source AI research agent that plans biomedical research workflows, searches PubMed, analyzes data, and maintains auditable evidence trails. Runs locally;…Showing only providers with a published price or a free plan. $29 = lowest observed monthly · Free = free to use · Free tier = free plan + paid options.