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chat

+ Claude + ChatGPT + Gemini + Grok + DeepSeek + Qwen + Le Chat (Mistral)

research

+ Perplexity + NotebookLM ✓ Elicit + Genspark

coding

+ Cursor + Claude Code ✓ Windsurf + GitHub Copilot + Aider + Cline + Bolt.new (StackBlitz)+ Replit Agent

image

+ Midjourney + Ideogram + Flux (Black Forest Labs)+ DALL-E 3 + Recraft + Leonardo.ai + Adobe Firefly

video

+ Runway + Kling + Sora + Pika + Luma Dream Machine + Google Veo + HeyGen + Synthesia + Descript

voice

+ ElevenLabs + OpenAI Voice / Realtime + Cartesia + Play.ht + Hume AI

meeting

+ Granola + Otter.ai + Fireflies + Fathom

design

+ v0 + Lovable + Figma AI + Framer + Galileo AI

productivity

+ Gamma + Raycast AI + Reflect + Taskade

audio

+ Suno + Udio + Stable Audio

writing

+ Sudowrite + Lex + Grammarly

agents

+ Manus + Devin + ChatGPT Operator + Claude Agent SDK

dev platform

+ OpenRouter + Replicate + Groq + Hugging Face + Ollama

data

+ Julius + Rows + Hex

marketing

+ Jasper + Copy.ai + Writesonic

education

+ Khanmigo + Duolingo Max + MagicSchool

	Elicit S	Windsurf A
Tagline	AI research assistant for academic literature.	Codeium's agentic IDE. Cascade agent + strong free tier.
Category	research	coding
Pricing	Free + $12-$42/mo	Free + $15/mo Pro
Best for	Grad students, researchers, anyone doing literature reviews.	Developers who want Cursor-like power for less money.
Strengths	Searches 125M+ papers Extracts + synthesizes findings across papers Systematic review workflow	Cheaper than Cursor Cascade agent for multi-file tasks Solid free tier
Weaknesses	Academic-only Can hallucinate citations — verify everything	Smaller community Model selection more limited
Kai's verdict	S-tier for academic research. Nothing else comes close for systematic reviews.	A-tier. Close second to Cursor. If $5/mo matters, start here.
Link	Open →	Open →