OpenEvidence
Clinical answer engine for verified physicians, grounded in peer-reviewed medical literature.
why this verdict
Keep it — OpenAI has not replaced it
OpenAI's version overlaps, but does not finish the health job, so this one is still worth keeping open.
- A named launch, not a vibe named, unlinked
- General assistants answering clinical questions with citations from public literature. OpenAI, August 12, 2025 — no announcement link recorded yet.
- How much of the job it covers not the job editorial call
- Parts of it. The job still needs the tool to get finished.
- Is there a free way to do it? yes
- 1 of 3 listed replacements have a usable free tier: PubMed.
- What the call is worth nothing to cancel
- No paid entry tier tracked, so there is no subscription to cancel.
- Threatened by
- OpenAI
- Since
- August 12, 2025
- List price
- free
- Per year
- —
The backstory
OpenEvidence answers point-of-care clinical questions with summaries linked to peer-reviewed sources, free to verified US clinicians and funded by advertising. General assistants can also cite papers, which looks like the same product. OpenEvidence survives because it holds licensed content from major journals, verifies that the user is a clinician and carries the liability posture that medicine requires. Access rights, not model quality, are the moat.
Escape hatches
Editorially written clinical reference, subscription based
uptodate.com open_in_newFree primary literature index
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov open_in_newSystematic reviews for evidence-based decisions
cochranelibrary.com open_in_new1 of 3 replacements have a usable free tier.