STORM Review 2026 – Features, Pricing & Alternatives

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STORM is a Research Assistants tool. Type in any topic and STORM researches the web and writes a cited, Wikipedia-style article you can use as a starting point for your own work. Key features include Cited articles from web sources, Multi-perspective research stage, and Co-STORM collaborative mode. Best for students, teachers and self-learners.

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About

About STORM

STORM is a free research tool from Stanford's Open Virtual Assistant Lab that searches the internet on a topic you give it and generates a structured, multi-section article with inline citations. It runs two stages: first it researches the topic from multiple perspectives, then it drafts a full article with a reference list.

Capabilities

Key Features

Cited articles from web sources.

STORM searches the internet, collects references, and writes a multi-section report with inline citations and a source list, so you can check where each claim came from.

Multi-perspective research stage.

Before writing, STORM simulates conversations from different viewpoints to build an outline, which tends to give broader topic coverage than a single straight-through draft.

Co-STORM collaborative mode.

An interactive mode lets you join a roundtable with AI agents, ask follow-up questions, and steer the research direction as a knowledge map builds in real time.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, the online demo at storm.genie.stanford.edu is free. You agree to the terms of service and sign in to use it. The underlying code is also open source on GitHub if you want to run it yourself.

No. Stanford notes that the output is a research preview and usually needs significant editing, and it is not publication-ready. Use it to gather sources and outline a topic during your pre-writing, then verify the citations and write the work in your own words to follow your school's academic-integrity rules.

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