Research
Research Synthesis
Synthesising multiple sources into coherent analysis with citations.
Recommended agents
AnthropicPerplexityGoogle
Claude Opus 4.7
Anthropic's flagship at the time of this entry: extended thinking on, 1M-token context, the most patient of the frontier models.
Perplexity
Search-first answer engine. Citations on every claim, model-agnostic, the first credible Google alternative for fact retrieval.
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Google's reasoning flagship. Two-million-token context, native multimodal, the only frontier model that reads PDFs without an extraction pre-pass.
Budget pick
Perplexity
$20/mo Pro; API tiered
Key considerations
- ›Citation quality
- ›Source verification
- ›Hallucination rate