No. 16 of 28 ·AI Research Assistants

LeapSpace

Web · paid plans from £20.83/mo

Freedom report

Two barsScore 6.3

Free tierA free tier is on its own pricing page
Open codeNo open-source code on record
Runs widely1 of 6 device platforms
DocumentedPlans, terms and facts published

LeapSpace is ranked #16 of 28 in AI research assistants on Freedom251. It runs on Web. There is a free plan. A free trial is offered. Paid plans start at £20.83/mo.

LeapSpace plans and pricing

All plans

Try for free Free Unlimited for 14 days, then features have limits · No credit card required researcher.elsevier.com · 7 Oct 2026

LeapSpace yearly £250/yr £250 billed every 12 months, cancel anytime; shown as £21 / month, Save £50 Individual plan · Not for corporate use · Does not include reading access to additional journal articles or books researcher.elsevier.com · 7 Oct 2026

For organizations Not published Price on request Unlimited access for eligible researchers · Institutional capabilities, integrations, administration, and support researcher.elsevier.com · 7 Oct 2026

Compared on AI research assistants

Free plan: No
Paid from: $26/user/mo
Source citations: Yes
Deep research mode: Yes
Source access: web+files
File uploads: Yes
Source limit: 5 sources
Team workspace: Yes

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The record

Purpose: LeapSpace is an AI-assisted research workspace for exploring scholarly literature and supporting research workflows.
Research search: LeapSpace supports complex interdisciplinary research queries, follow-up questions, and revisiting previous queries.
Deep Research: Deep Research produces reports that highlight patterns, contradictions, and evidence gaps, and shows the steps used to create each report.
Writing Coach: Writing Coach checks claims against recent research and helps identify evidence gaps; it makes no automatic edits.
Trust features: Trust Cards show how a claim aligns with its cited source, while Claim Radar shows how it holds up across the broader research landscape.
File upload limit: Users can upload up to five PDF files per conversation.
Research content: LeapSpace uses Scopus-indexed scholarly content, full-text articles and book chapters from Elsevier and participating publishers, and curated funding data.
Integrations: Organization subscriptions list optional AI integration in Scopus where available, and individual subscriptions include AI features in Mendeley Reference Manager.
Organization support: Organization subscriptions list SSO/SAML authentication, a centralized admin console, usage analytics, dedicated customer success support, and customized onboarding and training.
Security: Elsevier says LeapSpace follows its cybersecurity framework aligned with ISO 27001 risk-management principles.
Privacy: Elsevier says user interactions are protected by industry-standard security measures and individual prompts are not used to train public AI models.
Content access limit: Reading Assistant is available only for documents the user is entitled to access.
Intended users: LeapSpace is for academic and industry researchers, as well as librarians, academic leaders, and research office teams.
Founded: 1880
Price from: £20.83/mo

Where it ranks on Freedom251

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Sources

elsevier.com/en-gb/products/leapspace· checked 7 Oct 2026
researcher.elsevier.com/gbp/· checked 7 Oct 2026
elsevier.com/en-gb/products/leapspace/trust-and-secu· checked 7 Oct 2026