AI tools for research: research and reports
Agents that search, read many sources and return a cited answer or report. Of the 147 tools on our research page, 61 fit this narrower job. By pricing: 31 open source, 1 source-available, 8 free or freemium, 3 paid, usage-based or enterprise, 18 pricing on the maker's site. The most-starred open repos here are Hermes Agent (Nous Research) (253,590 stars), Deer Flow (83,959 stars), MindsHub (39,800 stars). Most come from the research (22), MCP & infra (12), crypto (7) categories.
Hermes Agent (Nous Research)
Open-source agent harness; v0.21.7 stable shipped Oct 12, v0.22.0 RCs Oct 13-14.
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Deer Flow
ByteDance's open-source long-horizon agent harness that researches, codes and creates using sandboxes, memory and sub-agents.
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MindsHub
MindsDB's agent workspace for research, analysis, documents and coding, with a model router, a scoped vault for connected data and swappable open-source agent harnesses.
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Vibe-Trading
Open-source personal trading agent for researching markets and testing strategies in natural language.
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STORM
Stanford system that writes Wikipedia-style articles from web research.
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GPT Researcher
Autonomous agent that researches the web and writes cited reports.
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DeepCode
Open agentic coding system that turns papers and specs into code with multi-agent orchestration.
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SurfSense
Privacy-focused, open-source NotebookLM alternative with a research agent over your sources.
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Magentic-UI
Microsoft Research's experimental human-in-the-loop agent that works across the browser and local files.
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Feynman
Open-source research agent that searches, reads papers and writes cited reports.
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MiroThinker
Deep research agent and open models tuned for complex research and forecasting tasks.
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Voyager
Research agent that explores Minecraft on its own, writing and reusing code skills to learn as it goes.
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AIOS
Research AI agent operating system that handles scheduling, context switching, memory, storage and tool management for LLM-based agents.
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Kun
Local-first agent workspace for coding, writing, design, research and automation.
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LobsterAI
NetEase Youdao's desktop agent for data analysis, slides, documents and web research.
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Zotero MCP
MCP server that connects your Zotero research library to Claude and other assistants.
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FrontierAgent
Open-source agent runtime and terminal app for long-horizon research and file work, with single-agent ReAct and parallel agent-team modes.
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EvoScientist
Self-evolving AI scientist system that autonomously explores research ideas, runs experiments and improves with growing skills and memory.
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DeepAnalyze
Agentic LLM from Renmin University that autonomously runs data science pipelines and produces analyst-grade research reports.
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Deep Research (u14)
Deep research app that works with any LLM and exposes an API and MCP server.
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AutoDev
Multi-agent development platform built on Kotlin Multiplatform for research, coding, review and data queries across IntelliJ, VS Code, CLI and more.
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OpenScience
Research agent workbench that reads the literature, writes and runs code and experiments and logs every step, with skills and connectors for databases like PubMed, UniProt and arXiv.
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Hyperresearch
Deep research harness that turns Claude Code or Codex into a research agent building a persistent, searchable wiki, with a hosted API and MCP.
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SimpleMem
Research-backed lifelong memory library for LLM agents that stores, compresses and retrieves text and multimodal memories, usable over MCP.
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Paper2Agent
Multi-agent system that turns a research paper and its code into a working MCP server and agent skills you can query and run.
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arXiv MCP Server
MCP server for searching and reading arXiv papers.
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MiroFlow
Research agent framework with web UI supporting MiroThinker and other models.
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Claude Scientific Writer
K-Dense's general-purpose scientific writing agent for Claude that drafts research papers and documents.
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MLE-Agent
Pairing agent for ML engineers and researchers that builds baselines, plans with arXiv and Papers with Code, and works through Kaggle tasks.
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IBM CUGA
IBM Research's configurable generalist agent (CUGA) for enterprise web and API tasks, with a live demo on Hugging Face Spaces.
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Hugging Face MCP Server
Hugging Face's MCP server connecting agents to the Hub's models, datasets, papers and Gradio Spaces.
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Imbue
AI research company building tools for coding agents, including Sculptor for running parallel agents.
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11x
Digital AI workers for go-to-market teams, including an SDR agent that researches prospects and runs outbound and a phone agent that handles calls.
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Altmetric MCP
Altmetric's MCP server for tracking research attention across news, policy documents and social media.
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blai
AI crypto advisor app to research tokens, build portfolios and trade via chat.
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Clay
Go-to-market data platform for enriching leads and running agentic research workflows and outreach plays.
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CoChat
AI research agents that gather verified sources and organize findings.
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Consensus
AI academic search engine over peer-reviewed literature for finding, organizing and analyzing scientific research.
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Crewdle
Hire autonomous agents and teams for support, sales, bookkeeping and research, paid per task.
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CustomGPT.ai
No-code platform for building AI agents grounded in your business content, with citations and anti-hallucination controls.
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Elicit
Research assistant that finds and summarizes academic papers.
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ElizaOS
Open-source TypeScript agent operating system with wallet and on-chain plugins, maintained by Eliza Research.
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Extruct AI
Company research API for AI that finds and researches companies from a 10M-company index or the live web, with sources.
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Frase MCP
Frase's MCP server with SEO, GEO and AI visibility tools to research, write, optimize, publish and monitor content.
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Gemini Notebook
Google's AI research tool, formerly NotebookLM, that analyzes the sources you upload and turns them into summaries, answers and new formats.
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Google Deep Review
Google Research's multi-agent system that checks research papers, design docs, and legal or financial documents for logical gaps and unsupported claims.
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HeyAnon
Conversational DeFi agent that executes swaps, bridges and research across chains.
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Laika AI
Polymetric by Laika AI: AI research, whale tracking and a screener for Polymarket prediction markets (formerly a Web3 research extension).
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Liner MCP
Liner's MCP server for real-time web and scholarly search with cited answers and multi-step deep research.
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Ludo.ai
AI assistant for game designers: market research, concept ideas, game design docs and asset generation.
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Lune Research
MCP server that grounds AI agents in full-text computer science research papers.
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Manus
General-purpose autonomous agent that does research and tasks in a cloud computer.
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Nansen AI
On-chain analytics with an AI agent that researches tokens and wallets and can execute trades, powered by 500M+ labeled addresses.
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Ninja AI
All-in-one AI assistant with research, coding and writing agents.
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Parallel Search MCP
Parallel's MCP servers for web search and deep-research tasks built for AI agents.
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Scite MCP
Scite's MCP server that grounds AI answers in scientific literature, with full-text search and citation-based trust signals.
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Serpstat MCP
Serpstat's MCP server for automating SEO tasks such as keyword research, competitor analysis and audits.
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Skywork
AI workspace agents that turn a prompt into docs, slides, sheets, podcasts and web pages backed by deep research.
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Surf AI
AI research assistant for crypto (and now US equities) built on on-chain, market and social data.
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TwelveLabs Jockey MCP
TwelveLabs' hosted MCP server for Jockey, a video-understanding agent that searches, tracks entities and answers questions across your videos and images with clip citations.
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vidIQ MCP
vidIQ's MCP server for researching and creating content for YouTube, Instagram and TikTok from an AI assistant.
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GitHub repos (32)
| Repo | GitHub stars | Licence | Last push |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hermes Agent (Nous Research) ↗ | 253,590 | MIT | 2026-10-18 |
| Deer Flow ↗ | 83,959 | MIT | 2026-10-18 |
| MindsHub ↗ | 39,800 | MIT | 2026-09-10 |
| Vibe-Trading ↗ | 35,643 | MIT | 2026-10-18 |
| STORM ↗ | 31,627 | MIT | 2025-09-30 |
| GPT Researcher ↗ | 30,082 | Apache License 2.0 | 2026-10-10 |
| DeepCode ↗ | 16,717 | MIT | 2026-10-14 |
| SurfSense ↗ | 16,459 | Apache-2.0 | 2026-10-16 |
| Magentic-UI ↗ | 10,097 | MIT | 2026-07-23 |
| Feynman ↗ | 9,976 | MIT | 2026-10-18 |
| MiroThinker ↗ | 8,420 | Apache License 2.0 | 2026-03-23 |
| Voyager ↗ | 7,268 | MIT | 2023-07-27 |
| AIOS ↗ | 6,480 | — | — |
| Kun ↗ | 6,313 | PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0 | 2026-10-17 |
| LobsterAI ↗ | 6,119 | MIT | 2026-10-16 |
Top 15 of 32 by stars. Stars and licence come from each repo, checked when the listing was last verified.
FAQ
What are the best AI tools for research focused on research and reports?
We list 61. The first three by GitHub stars and featured status are Hermes Agent (Nous Research): Open-source agent harness; v0.21.7 stable shipped Oct 12, v0.22.0 RCs Oct 13-14.; Deer Flow: ByteDance's open-source long-horizon agent harness that researches, codes and creates using sandboxes, memory and sub-agents.; MindsHub: MindsDB's agent workspace for research, analysis, documents and coding, with a model router, a scoped vault for connected data and swappable open-source agent harnesses.
Are there free or open-source options?
Yes: 31 open source, 1 source-available, 8 free or freemium, 3 paid, usage-based or enterprise, 18 pricing on the maker's site. Pricing is as each maker states it.
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