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Consensus vs FutureHouse

A side-by-side comparison of Consensus and FutureHouse, drawn from Ignaite's continuously-verified listings.

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Consensus

Research

AI search over peer-reviewed research papers, with inline citations.

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FutureHouse

Science

AI agents that automate scientific literature research and discovery.

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At a glance

Feature comparison of Consensus and FutureHouse
AttributeConsensusFutureHouse
Category (differs)ResearchScience
Pricing (differs)FREEMIUMFREE
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
DeploymentCloudCloud
Platforms (differs)Web, iOSWeb, API
Model support (differs)Multi-model—
Vendor (differs)ConsensusFutureHouse

The honest brief

Consensus

Consensus Meter aggregates whether papers agree or disagree on a question, beyond surfacing individual citations.

  • 200M+ peer-reviewed corpus
  • Copilot drafts literature reviews
  • Inline citations on answers
  • Best answers behind paid tier
  • Coverage skews to indexed journals
  • Not for non-academic questions

FutureHouse

Unlike chat-based research tools, its agents are tuned and benchmarked on scientific literature tasks — PaperQA2 posted superhuman lit-search scores.

  • Free to use
  • Specialized science agents
  • Open API access
  • Strong lit-search benchmarks
  • Narrow to research workflows
  • Accuracy not guaranteed
  • Smaller model ecosystem
  • Newer platform
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