Is Perplexity Pro better than Consensus for doing literature reviews for my senior thesis in software engineering
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The searches the AI actually ran for this prompt.
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Is Perplexity Pro better than Consensus for doing literature reviews for my senior thesis in software engineering
3 real searches · 1 real-search pass
Consensus AI official features academic research literature review sources papers citations 2026Google ↗
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Perplexity Pro official features academic research search citations deep research 2026Google ↗
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Consensus vs Perplexity Pro literature review academic research comparisonGoogle ↗
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Badge and edge weight = share of passes that produced the query. Hover a query for its intent and routing format.
Query classes
Google's semantic query class for every sub-query: what kind of answer each search is after, simulated vs real.
ChatGPT real searches (3)
Classes come from the query-classifier (a local Laya model). 2 of 3 calls are low-confidence (under 50%) — hover a query in the table to see its confidence.
Searches and sources
ChatGPT3 real searches · gpt-6
Consensus AI official features academic research literature review sources papers citations 2026 Google ↗
Perplexity Pro official features academic research search citations deep research 2026 Google ↗
Consensus vs Perplexity Pro literature review academic research comparison Google ↗
- Consensus AI Analysis, Citations, and Visuals · help.consensus.app
- Responsible AI in Academic Research with Consensus · consensus.app
- How Consensus Works · help.consensus.app
- Which Perplexity Subscription Plan is right for you? · perplexity.ai
- What is Pro Search? · perplexity.ai
- Perplexity vs. Consensus for Research · casrai.org
- ACM Digital Library · dl.acm.org
- IEEE Xplore · ieeexplore.ieee.org
- Google Scholar · scholar.google.com
- Scopus · scopus.com
- Semantic Scholar · semanticscholar.org
- How-to conduct a systematic literature review: A quick guide for computer science research · pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Find Articles & Papers - Computer Science Research Resources - LibGuides at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · guides.library.illinois.edu
- Find papers - Software Engineering · subjectguides.uwaterloo.ca
- Download Zotero · zotero.org
Queries
3 queries · click a column to sort
| Query / type | Search | Intent | Query class | Routing format | Cluster | Freq ↓ | Weight |
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Consensus AI official features academic research literature review sources papers citations 2026 OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Reason | — | — | 1x of 1 | |
Perplexity Pro official features academic research search citations deep research 2026 OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Reason | — | — | 1x of 1 | |
Consensus vs Perplexity Pro literature review academic research comparison OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Comparison | — | — | 1x of 1 |