June 22nd, 2026 - Collection sharing and expanded uploads in My Library
Share Collections: Users can now share Collections with others as Viewers or Editors.
Expanded uploads: Users can now upload more than published PDFs, including manuscripts, experiment proposals, dissertations, clinical protocols, private research reports, and other research-related documents.
All uploads are private unless the user chooses to share a Collection that includes them.
Learn more here.
June 18th, 2026 - Deep Search in Library and more flexible outputs
Deep Search is now available in Library and Collections. Previously, users could only run Pro searches across saved and uploaded papers. Now, Deep Search can provide a longer analysis across up to 50 relevant papers.
Deep Search is also more flexible. Users can attach papers and prompt Deep to create custom outputs like PICO/SPIDER reviews, reading lists, scoping maps, and custom reports.
May 15th, 2026 - Full-Text Access from Major Publishers
Consensus can access full text from major publishers including Wiley, AAAS, Taylor & Francis, Sage, ACS, APA, and others when available. Full-text access helps Consensus look beyond abstracts for sharper results and more grounded AI analysis.
Learn more here.
May 14th, 2026 - Updates to Citation Graph, Paper Search, and My Library
Citation Graph: Supports 20, 40, or 60 papers, color-coded seed clusters, and improved graph layouts.
Paper Search: A faster, deterministic way to search papers without an AI summary.
My Library: Includes bibliography generation, Zotero group collection imports, DOI/RIS/BibTeX import, support for very large collections, and LaTeX export.
Learn more here.
May 13th, 2026 - Consensus in ChatGPT, Claude, and our API
We expanded how researchers can bring Consensus into the AI tools they already use, including ChatGPT, Codex, Claude, Claude Code, and custom tools built with our API. Consensus now works inside ChatGPT Deep Research and the Claude MCP has improved retrieval and more academic filters.
Learn more here.
May 12th, 2026 - Research Agent
We launched Research Agent, a more powerful way to answer complex, multi-step research questions in Consensus. Research Agent can plan searches, chain together tools, apply academic filters, and return citation-backed answers grounded in peer-reviewed research.
Learn more here.
May 11th, 2026 - $30M fundraise
We kicked off Launch Week by announcing our $30M fundraise to build the AI operating system for research. This funding will help us expand beyond search and build more tools that help researchers synthesize, organize, write, and review scientific work faster.
Learn more here.
May 6th, 2026 - Consensus in ChatGPT
Consensus is now available as a ChatGPT App. Previously available as the Consensus GPT, the new app connection is the updated way to use Consensus inside ChatGPT.
Learn more here.
April 30th, 2026 - Updated input experience + Paper search
Pro is now the default mode in Threads
Easily upgrade any Pro message to Deep with the new toggle
Paper Search, formerly Quick Search, lets you browse relevant papers without summaries. Find Paper Search under Tools in the bottom-left corner.
April 2nd, 2026 - My Library Upgrades
Bibliography generation: Select papers to generate citations in any style
Import Group Zotero collections: Bring in shared Zotero collections
Support for very large collections: Removed the 5,000 paper limit for Zotero imports
DOI / RIS / BibTeX import: Add papers using common reference formats
Export to LaTeX: Export responses for use in Overleaf or other LaTeX editors
Learn more here.
March 24th, 2026 - Consensus MCP + Claude Connector
You can now turn Claude into your research assistant by connecting it to over 220 million peer-reviewed research papers. Run full research workflows like literature reviews, reading list generation, and grant discovery - all powered by cited research.
Learn more here.
February 26th, 2026 - Citation Graph
Citation Graph is a new visualization that maps how research papers connect through citations. Start with up to 5 seed papers to discover related work, identify foundational and follow-up studies, and see how research in a field has evolved over time.
Learn more here.
February 3rd, 2026 - Import your Zotero library into Consensus
You can now import your Zotero library directly into Consensus and work with the research you’ve already collected. Once imported, your Zotero papers appear in My Library, where you can search across them, chat with collections, compare studies, and analyze folders using Consensus.
Learn more here.
January 8th, 2026 - My Library
My Library lets you save, organize, and work with your research all in one place. Create Collections to organize papers and searches, chat with individual papers or entire Collections, and export citations (CSV or RIS) to your reference manager.
Learn more here.
December 15th, 2025 - Chat with Collections
Chat with Collections lets you search, summarize, and analyze only the papers you’ve saved or uploaded into a Collection. Run a Pro search and select a Collection as your source to get focused, evidence-based answers from just the research you care about.
Learn more here.
October 23rd, 2025 - Scholar Agent
Scholar Agent is your new AI research assistant, built directly into Pro Search. Scholar Agent plans and executes multi-step searches, applies smart academic filters (like year, study type, and journal quality), and organizes results into subtopics. It makes Pro searches deeper, faster, and more structured.
Learn more here.
October 15th, 2025 - Results Timeline figure
Results Timeline is a new visualization in Consensus that shows how research on a topic has evolved over time. It plots the top papers chronologically, with larger points representing more citations. This helps you instantly see when key studies were published and how research activity has trended in the field.
Learn more here.
October 9th, 2025 - Medical Mode
Medical Mode narrows your results to the highest-quality medical sources: ~8 million articles from the top 1,000 medical journals and ~50,000 clinical guidelines. It focuses your search on trusted clinical research, helping you get reliable medical insights faster. To use it, click the sources dropdown in the search bar and select Medical Mode.
Learn more here.
October 7th, 2025 - Chat with up to 5 papers
You can now select or upload up to five papers for detailed AI analysis in Consensus. Get a comprehensive, cited summary across the selected papers to compare findings, explore relationships, and assess study quality in one place. To use this feature, use the new drop-down on the search bar to select saved papers or check the boxes beside search results to ask a follow-up question.
Learn more here.
September 17th, 2025 - Table View
We’ve added Table View to help you extract study attributes and compare papers side by side. You can now quickly review details such as population, methods, results, sample size, and duration directly within your results. Access Table View by clicking the Table button at the top of your search results.
Learn more here.
September 12th, 2025 - Interface Updates
Paper sidebar view: Clicking a search result now opens a paper preview in a sidebar so you can see the abstract, key metadata, PDF (when available), and more, without leaving your thread.
Study Snapshots in the new sidebar: Snapshots are now in the sidebar, showing population studied, study design, outcomes, results, and sample size in one click.
Learn more here.
September 3rd, 2025 - Dark mode and new Deep subscription
Dark mode: Go to your profile (bottom left) and click 'Toggle theme' to switch between light, dark, or system.
New pricing tiers:
Pro (previously Premium): Unlimited Pro Searches + 15 Deep Searches/month
Deep: Everything in Pro + 200 Deep Searches/month
Learn more here.
August 28th, 2025 - Product updates
Deep Search email notifications: You’ll now get an email notification as soon as your Deep Search is finished.
Dedicated search history page: View your search history page by clicking “History” in the left sidebar to see all your past threads and search through them.
Institutions in Top Contributors visual: Our 'Top Contributors' visualization in Deep Search now shows the author’s institutional affiliation, giving more context on where research is happening.
MeSH synonyms: Searches now support MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) synonyms, making medical queries sharper and more accurate.
Learn more here.
August 21st, 2025 - Connect Your Institution for Full-Text Access
You can now link your Consensus account with your university or institution to get direct access to full text from your library's subscriptions. Set it up in Account Settings by searching for your institution.
August 13th, 2025 - Full text is now included in Consensus analysis
Pro and Deep Search analysis now pull directly from the full text of papers (when available), providing richer insights. Look for the checkmark icon on in-line citations to see when full text was used. Learn more here.
August 8th, 2025 - Pro Analysis visualization updates
Claims & evidence table: Quickly see the strength of support, reasoning, and key supporting papers for each claim in one clear view.
Research gaps heat map: Highlights and visualizes areas with limited research.
New TL;DR header: Get the quick takeaway at the top of the page before diving in.
Learn more here.
July 31st, 2025 - Deep Search Improvements
PDF export: Download a formatted PDF of our AI analysis with structured sections, inline citations, and visuals.
Natural language filters in Deep Search: Refine your results by typing out filters.
Copy text with formatting: Use the 'Copy Text' button to paste your analysis into Word, Docs, Notion, or Obsidian, with formatting preserved.
Citation graph traversal: Deep Search now follows and explores the citation networks from your initial results! This uncovers connected studies and surfaces more relevant, high-value papers.
Learn more here.
July 24th, 2025 - Search updates
Pro now analyzes up to 20 papers per query: This is double the previous limit!
Improved author search and analysis: Search with Pro for a specific author to see a summary of their work.
Smarter Boolean search: We’ve enhanced our Boolean capabilities to help you craft more precise queries.
Learn more here.
July 8th, 2025 - Launch of Deep Search
Deep Search breaks down your question into a structured multi-step search strategy that reviews over 1,000+ papers to find the most relevant papers and generate a comprehensive report. Learn more here.
June 5th, 2025 - General updates
Threads Citations: See every paper cited in your thread in one panel, sortable by citation count or recency. Save, cite, or export them with ease.
Thread Management: Rename threads, jump between queries, or delete as needed.
Colored Citations: When the Consensus Meter is present, each citation will be color-coded by stance (Yes/No/Maybe).
Smarter Analysis: Pro Analysis generates clearer comparison tables. Free summaries have richer detail and more citations.
Compact Mode: Browse results faster with less scrolling.
Smart Follow‑Ups: Smarter follow-up prompts, including one Consensus Meter question, to guide deeper exploration.
Author Search: Enter a researcher's name to find their published studies
Learn more here.
May 1st, 2025 - Launch of Threads
Threads lets you ask follow-up questions within the same search, creating a continuous and natural way to explore scientific research. Instead of starting over with each new query, Threads keeps your context so you can dive deeper into the research. Learn more here.
March 24th, 2025 - Launch of the Research Hub (Upload PDFs)
The Research Hub allows you to upload and chat with a PDF within Consensus. You get to upload a PDF and use our Ask Paper feature to learn about key figures, methodological details, novel insights and more. Learn more here.
February 12th, 2025 - Setting updates
Incognito mode: When activated in your settings, none of your searches will be saved to your search history.
Clear search history: You can now delete your entire search history in your settings.
Learn more here.
February 6th, 2025 - Consensus Meter 2.0
The updated Consensus Meter adds additional nuance for each "position", providing detail about the methodology, the recency, the publishing journal and the impact of the papers. Learn more here.
December 19th, 2024 - Search improvements
New Preprint search filter: Use the new "Exclude preprints" filter to exclude non–peer-reviewed papers from your search results. Preprints are now also labeled for easier identification.
Search by a paper's DOI (Digital Object Identifier): Paste a paper's DOI directly into the search bar to quickly locate a specific article.
Typo handling: Consensus now automatically rewrites misspelled words in the background to help return more accurate results.
November 21st, 2024 - Pro Analysis updates
Copilot is now called Pro Analysis: We've renamed our flagship feature "Copilot" to now be called Pro Analysis.
Copy Pro Analysis text with citations: You can now copy + paste your Consensus Pro Analysis text along with in-line citations in your chosen reference style. Learn more here.
Create tables within Pro Analysis: Instantly compare key findings, methodologies, effect sizes, and more across multiple papers by prompting the Pro analysis feature to generate a table. Learn more here.
September 11th, 2024 - Launch of Ask Paper
Chat directly with our full-text PDF papers, ask clarifying questions about the methodology, specific charts, and much more. Learn more here.
July 8th, 2024 - New search filters
Study Duration: Filter by days, weeks, months, or years to ensure effects were studied for a long enough time period.
Country: Filter by the country a study took place in to gain insights from region-specific data and ensure relevance to your target population.
Check out all of our search filters here.
June 12th, 2024 - New website & UX refresh
We launched a redesigned experience, including updates to our logo, font, colors, content, and overall product UX. Learn more here.
April 10th, 2024 - Launch of search history
You can now view your search history in the sidebar UI with the ability to delete or save searches. Learn more here.
April 2nd, 2024 - Launch of a Teams subscription plan
We've introduced a subscription plan designed for 2-200 users. This includes centralized billing and streamlined user management with bulk discounts. Learn more here.
March 26th, 2024 - Language support for AI features
You can now select from 31 languages to translate text within Copilot, Summaries, and Paper Takeaways. Learn more here.
March 11th, 2024 - Feature updates
New filters: You can now filter for Open Access papers and by citation count
Related searches: Scroll to the bottom of the search results page and you'll see suggested searches related to your topic
Paper citation network: Click into any paper and you now see what papers it references and what papers cited it.
Copilot updates: We made some improvements and fixed small bugs.
Learn more here.
February 8th, 2024 - Launch of Copilot
You can now ask Consensus to help with research tasks using natural language prompts. Copilot gives flexible, research-backed responses right in the main interface. Learn more here.
January 15th, 2024 - Launch of the Consensus Meter
For “Yes/No” questions, the Consensus Meter uses large language models to instantly classify the results as indicating “yes”, “no” or “possibly” in a clean, aggregated interface. The meter will run over the first 20 results, and will only classify answers that our models believe are relevant enough to your question. Learn more here.
January 10th, 2024 - Launch of Consensus GPT within ChatGPT
The Consensus Search plugin allows users to find answers, search for papers, and draft pieces of content grounded in scientific research by searching our database of 200M+ papers and claims directly within the ChatGPT interface. Learn more here.
December 12th, 2023 - Integrate Consensus with Reference Managers
You can now export paper details from both Consensus search results and Consensus saved lists in .CSV or .RIS file formats. This makes it easy to integrate Consensus with reference managers like EndNote, Mendeley, and Zotero. Learn more here.
December 1st, 2023 - Launch of saved Lists
You can now save searches and individual papers to custom lists within the Consensus product. Learn more here.
November 14th, 2023 - Launch of Advanced Search Filters
You can now narrow your searches with our advanced search filters. Filter by publication date, study types, sample size, population, journal prestige, and domain.
Learn more here.
November 1st, 2023 - Launch of Consensus 2.0
Smarter paper search: We introduced a powerful hybrid search algorithm that combines keyword and AI-powered vector searches across 200 million papers.
Precise answer extraction: The system now extracts contextually relevant information from papers, so answers are more accurate and tailored to your specific query.
Fresh, new design: The results page received a major redesign. Titles now stand out at the top of each result tile, with the extracted answer presented clearly in a gray text box.
Learn more here.