An AI search engine that answers questions and cites the sources it used.
Best free AI tools for students
Every tool on this page has a genuinely free plan — not a trial that expires. We say what the free tier actually includes, and where it runs out.
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Category
Pricing
Deep style and grammar editing with detailed reports beyond basic spellcheck
A paraphrasing and summarising tool aimed at writers and students.
Reading dense academic PDFs with an AI chat assistant alongside the text
Checking whether other papers actually support or contradict a source before citing it
Generating correctly formatted citations and checking a paper for AI-generated text or plagiarism
Finding and understanding academic papers quickly
Privacy-conscious AI code completion that can run without sending code to the cloud
Rewriting an awkward sentence into several clearer alternatives
Collecting sources and generating citations/bibliographies automatically in any style