The company publicly announced that Epsilon will shut down on April 30, 2026.
SourcePublic company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Epsilon is a YC W23 AI search engine for scientific research. It uses Semantic Scholar’s corpus of 200M+ papers plus GPT-4 to return cited answers, summarize papers, search publications/patents, extract evidence across multiple papers, and organize/summarize libraries. The site also states the product will shut down on April 30, 2026.
Primary product
AI search engine for scientific research with cited answers, paper/patent search, claim validation, and literature-review synthesis
Founded
2022
Headquarters
60 Hudson St, New York City, New York 10013, United States
Team size
1-10 employees
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
AI search engine for scientific research
Offices
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Business model
Investors
Mission-driven company focused on accelerating scientific research, reducing friction in reading and writing, and making science more searchable and accessible. Public materials emphasize helping researchers save time, synthesize evidence, and become more effective at literature review and cross-paper analysis.
Pricing
Public self-serve pricing is not shown on the homepage; the site points visitors to request a demo. Third-party analysis indicates a freemium/subscription model with a free trial and paid individual and organization plans.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
~$4M (third-party estimate)
Estimated monthly visits
12.8K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
The company publicly announced that Epsilon will shut down on April 30, 2026.
SourceEpsilon blog · May 2024
Explains Epsilon’s mission and product direction: cited answers over 200M+ papers, literature-review support, and faster scientific synthesis.
Epsilon blog · Mar 2024
Announces a feature that creates full literature reviews by generating and answering multiple research questions and synthesizing the results.
Epsilon blog · Jan 2024
Describes a workflow for comparing findings across papers to help users synthesize literature more efficiently.
Epsilon blog · Dec 2023
Covers branching search UX for scientific literature discovery, aimed at helping users explore alternative research angles.
Y Combinator LinkedIn · Sep 2023
YC announced Epsilon’s launch, describing it as an AI search engine for academic research that returns cited answers from academic literature.