In July 2026, there are 93 AI Research Tool tools listed. Duck.ai ranks #1 with 689.5M monthly visits. Benchling is the fastest growing tool with 9.7% growth.
In July 2026, there are 93 AI Research Tool tools listed. Duck.ai ranks #1 with 689.5M monthly visits. Benchling is the fastest growing tool with 9.7% growth.
Rank | Tool | Monthly Visits | Growth | Growth Rate | Category | Description | |
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🥇 | Duck.ai duckduckgo.com | 689.5M | +14.7M | 2.2% | AI Search Engine | Duck.ai offers a private and user-friendly search experience, ensuring your data stays secure. | |
🥈 |  Perplexity perplexity.ai | 115.8M | -22.3M | -16.1% | AI Search Engine | Perplexity AI is a smart search engine that delivers quick answers using AI. | |
🥉 |  NotebookLM notebooklm.google | 31.0M | -6.7M | -17.7% | AI Summarizer | Google NotebookLM is an AI research tool that analyzes your personal documents to deliver accurate, cited insights and creative ideas—making complex information easier to understand and use. | |
4 |  Use AI use.ai | 22.5M | -4.6M | -17.1% | AI Productivity Tools | Use AI is an all-in-one AI workspace offering GPT-5 access, content creation, research, and file analysis to boost productivity and creativity. | |
5 |  Prolific prolific.com | 21.1M | -70.8K | -0.3% | AI Research Tool | Prolific helps AI developers and researchers collect high-quality human data from verified participants for training, evaluation, and research studies in minutes. | |
6 |  Kaggle kaggle.com | 12.0M | -400.6K | -3.2% | AI Data Analytics | Kaggle is the world’s largest data science community, offering competitions, datasets, and learning resources to help you achieve your data science goals. | |
7 |  MyHeritage myheritage.com | 11.3M | -795.3K | -6.6% | AI Knowledge Base | MyHeritage is a comprehensive genealogy platform that helps you build your family tree, explore billions of historical records, and discover your ethnic background through DNA testing, all while connecting with relatives and bringing your family photos to life. | |
8 |  Gemma ai.google.dev | 8.8M | -860.1K | -8.9% | General LLM | Google AI Gemma offers lightweight, responsible, and high-performing AI models for diverse applications, from research to mobile and web services. | |
9 |  Liner liner.com | 6.9M | -541.0K | -7.3% | AI Search Engine | Liner is a comprehensive AI tool that enhances your work with precise search, robust academic research, and efficient writing capabilities. | |
10 |  Semantic Scholar semanticscholar.org | 6.6M | -1.3M | -17.0% | AI Research Tool | Semantic Scholar is a free, AI-powered tool that helps you discover and understand scientific literature with ease. | |
11 |  Consensus consensus.app | 5.0M | -710.0K | -12.4% | AI Search Engine | Consensus: AI for Research is an AI-powered academic search engine that helps students, researchers, and clinicians find and analyze peer-reviewed literature 10x faster while maintaining academic rigor. | |
12 |  Branded gobranded.com | 3.9M | -334.9K | -7.8% | AI Data Analytics | Branded is an AI-powered audience research platform that delivers niche, verified consumer insights for critical business decisions, from product concept testing to sentiment analysis. | |
13 |  Benchling benchling.com | 1.7M | +149.7K | 9.7% | AI Research Tool | Benchling is a cloud-based biotech R&D platform that accelerates discovery through AI-powered workflows, structured data, and collaboration tools built for modern biology. | |
14 |  Anara anara.com | 1.6M | -507.3K | -23.7% | AI Research Tool | Anara is an AI tool that helps researchers understand, organize, and write documents faster with smart features like instant summaries, cited responses, and collaborative editing.
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15 |  Paperpal paperpal.com | 1.5M | -19.6K | -1.3% | AI Writing Assistants | Paperpal is a comprehensive AI academic writing tool that helps students and researchers write, edit, and submit high-quality papers with confidence. | |
16 |  Jenni jenni.ai | 1.5M | -140.0K | -8.8% | AI Writing Assistants | Jenni is an AI academic writer that helps students and researchers create credible, source-backed papers with traceable citations and smart writing assistance. | |
17 |  Chatly chatlyai.app | 1.4M | -1.4M | -49.2% | AI Research Tool | Chatly AI Chat offers human-like interaction and multiple AI models for deep, accurate research and improved productivity, with features like image generation and web source citations. | |
18 |  Rayyan rayyan.ai | 1.2M | +98.7K | 9.1% | AI Reviews Assistant | Rayyan is an AI-powered tool that simplifies systematic literature reviews, saving time and improving collaboration.
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19 |  Vast.ai vast.ai | 1.2M | -185.2K | -13.6% | AI Research Tool | Vast.ai is the market leader in low-cost cloud GPU rental, offering secure, affordable, and easy-to-use solutions for AI workloads and machine learning projects. | |
20 |  Patsnap patsnap.com | 1.0M | -62.8K | -5.8% | AI Research Tool | Patsnap is the ultimate AI tool for IP and R&D teams, offering domain-specific insights, automated workflows, and collaboration tools to drive innovation and cut costs. |
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