“ChatGPT Deep Research | Multi-step investigations, comparing sources, structured reports | General business and strategic research”
“Multi-step investigations, comparing sources, structured reports”
“Best all-round research workflow”
“Good for complicated, multi-part research assignments.”
“Useful for combining web research with supplied documents and connected data.”
“Claude Research | Iterative research, long-document analysis, synthesis | Complex analysis and written reports”
“Strong at interpreting complex material.”
“Useful for comparing arguments and conflicting evidence.”
“Particularly interesting for combining external research with internal documents.”
“Microsoft Copilot Researcher | Research across web and Microsoft 365 information | Corporate research and internal knowledge”
“Can work across company documents, emails and meetings, subject to permissions.”
“Useful for research that combines internal and external information.”
“Particularly attractive for organisations already using Microsoft 365.”
“Manus | General-purpose autonomous tasks, research and document creation | Research that leads to further actions”
“General-purpose autonomous tasks, research and document creation”
“Elicit – searches academic literature and helps screen and synthesise scientific papers.”
“searches academic literature and helps screen and synthesise scientific papers.”
“Consensus – answers research questions using published scientific studies.”
“answers research questions using published scientific studies.”
“Undermind – performs iterative searches through scientific literature.”
“performs iterative searches through scientific literature.”
“Scite – helps verify whether subsequent academic papers support or contradict a cited study.”
“helps verify whether subsequent academic papers support or contradict a cited study.”
“GPT Researcher – an open-source framework for building autonomous research agents.”
“an open-source framework for building autonomous research agents.”
“Perplexity Deep Research | Broad web search, visible citations, rapid source discovery | Fact-finding and current information”
“Best for source discovery”
“Broad web search, visible citations, rapid source discovery”
“Makes it relatively easy to inspect sources.”
“Perplexity had the lowest error rate in that particular test, at 37%.”
“Google Gemini Deep Research | Research planning, Google Search, integration with Google services | Broad research and Google Workspace”
“Can develop a research plan before conducting searches.”
“Useful when working with Google services and documents.”
“Good for broad investigations.”