What Mendeley AI does
Mendeley is a free reference manager that helps researchers and students organize sources, read papers and manage their research workflow in one place. Users add PDFs to a personal library, sort them with collections and tags, and read, highlight and annotate documents, online through Mendeley Web. Its AI features find patterns, relationships and missing links across a user's references, interpret natural language queries and pull context-rich insights from stored documents. Newer AI tools support reading, comparing and exploring scientific papers. The site also promotes LeapSpace, a separate AI research companion. Mendeley is free to use and includes 2GB of free storage; the home page lists no paid plans.
How Mendeley AI compares with its closest alternatives
4 of the 5 closest alternatives have a free plan, as Mendeley AI does. Among the 2 that list a starting price, the cheapest is Rayyan Systematic Review at $4.99 a month and the median is $7.50. Mendeley AI starts at $4.99 a month, below that median. 3 of the 5 offer an API; FalcoScan's records show none for Mendeley AI. Mendeley AI offers a web app, a mobile app and a desktop app. Of the alternatives, all 5 offer a web app, none offers a mobile app and 1 offers a desktop app. Mendeley AI was founded in 2008; the alternatives were founded between 2006 and 2019, 1 of them earlier.