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SConsensus vs Lexis+ AI
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose Consensus if…
- you want a free plan to start with
- you need an API to build on
- you're in its core audience: students, academic researchers
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Choose Lexis+ AI if…
- you're in its core audience: law firm attorneys, in-house counsel
Side by side
Feature Consensus Lexis+ AI
Pricing modelFreemiumContact for pricing
Starting price$20/mo—
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb
CategoryResearch AssistantsLegal
Rank in its category—#4 of 10
CompanyConsensusLexisNexis
Based in—Germany
Founded—1973
Part of—Reed Elsevier
Key features
C Consensus
- Search across 400M+ scientific papers
- Pro Search and Deep Search synthesized answers
- Ask Paper chat with a single study
- Consensus Meter for scientific agreement on yes/no questions
- Study Snapshots summarizing findings and methods
- Citation Graph of paper relationships
- Citation export in RIS, BibTeX and CSV
- API and MCP access
L Lexis+ AI
- Protégé AI assistant built for legal professionals
- Legal research summaries grounded in LexisNexis content
- Drafts motions, briefs and transactional documents
- Step-by-step refinement of drafted documents
- Summarizes and analyzes large legal documents
- Secure Vault for uploading documents for AI review
- Connects firm knowledge bases, iManage and SharePoint
- General AI mode with leading AI models
Plans and prices
From each vendor's site. Prices change — confirm before buying.
Consensus
Free$0
Pro$20/mo or $144/year (~$12/mo billed yearly)
Deep$65/mo or $540/year (~$45/mo billed yearly)
TeamsCustom
EnterpriseCustom
Lexis+ AI
Contact for pricing. Plan details aren't published.
Strengths and limitations
Consensus
- Free plan includes unlimited Papers searches
- Indexes over 400 million scientific papers
- Citation export to RIS, BibTeX and CSV
- API and MCP calls included on every plan
- Free plan limited to 10 Pro messages and 3 Deep reviews a month
- Pro plan includes only 15 Deep reviews a month
- No mobile apps listed; web only
- Support offered in English only
Lexis+ AI
- Answers grounded in LexisNexis's own legal content
- Vendor states customer data is never used to train AI models
- Integrates with iManage and SharePoint
- No public pricing; sales contact required
- Product has been renamed Lexis+ with Protégé, which may cause confusion
- Features vary by region
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