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Edison Scientific vs FutureHouse

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

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Edison Scientific

Research

Kosmos, the AI scientist — autonomous literature and data-analysis research runs.

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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 Edison Scientific and FutureHouse
AttributeEdison ScientificFutureHouse
Category (differs)ResearchScience
Pricing (differs)FREEMIUMFREE
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
DeploymentCloudCloud
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb, API
Model support
Vendor (differs)Edison ScientificFutureHouse

The honest brief

Edison Scientific

Kosmos runs multi-hour autonomous campaigns over ~1,500 papers per run — deeper than single-shot literature agents.

  • Every finding linked to code or citations
  • First six Kosmos runs free for academics
  • Lineage in FutureHouse's PaperQA agents
  • On-prem deployment for enterprises
  • SOC 2 Type II compliant
  • $200 per Kosmos run after the free quota
  • Synthesized conclusions ~58% accurate in validation
  • Focused on biology and chemistry domains
  • Runs take hours — built for depth, not speed

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