Migrate from you-com to consensus.
1 documentation-derived translation pattern — what carries over and what to watch for. Cited to the Feature Parity Map; the audit tells you whether the move is worth it.
Both return AI answers in which every claim links back to a real source, so the migration is mostly about source scope. Moving from Consensus to You.com: run the question in You.com's Research mode for the closest experience - extensive citations and a structured answer - but expect the citations to point at web pages rather than journal articles. Moving from You.com to Consensus: take a question where You.com returned web-cited answers and re-run it on consensus.app when you specifically need peer-reviewed evidence; Consensus will return ranked papers with AI summaries and, for yes/no questions, a Consensus Meter showing scientific agreement.
- Warning: You.com cites the open web via RAG; Consensus cites a curated corpus of ~220M peer-reviewed papers. For evidence-grade or clinical/academic claims the difference is decisive - a You.com citation to a webpage is not equivalent to a Consensus citation to a published study.
- Warning: Consensus adds research-specific scaffolding that You.com does not: the Consensus Meter (scientific-agreement visualisation), Study Snapshots (extracted population/design/sample size/results per paper), and citation export to RIS/CSV for reference managers (EndNote, Zotero, Paperpile, etc.). These do not carry over to You.com.
- Warning: You.com's Research mode is one of several modes (Express/Compute/Research/Create) and is general-purpose; Consensus is research-only, so a You.com user must explicitly choose Research and accept web-scoped sources, while a Consensus user gives up You.com's coding/compute and image modes entirely.