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
ResearchKosmos, the AI scientist — autonomous literature and data-analysis research runs.
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ScienceAI agents that automate scientific literature research and discovery.
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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