iAsk is an AI search engine from Ai Search Inc. that answers questions with linked sources, guides students through homework step by step, and adds document, writing and tutoring tools, with an optional paid Pro plan.
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iAsk is an AI search engine that answers natural-language questions with linked sources, built mainly for students and researchers; its own pages also write the name as iAsk.Ai and iAsk AI. iAsk describes itself as a free question AI search engine and AI homework helper that gives students instant, cited answers to homework questions. Instead of a list of links, it returns a written answer with the sources it drew on.
The service is run by Ai Search Inc., the company named as operator of the iAsk.Ai website service in the Terms of Use. In a funding press release, iAsk said it had raised $4.2 million in seed funding led by Corazon Capital and had processed over 350 million search queries since launch. Around the search box sit several related tools: a step-by-step homework mode, an AI Summarizer, a Document Analyzer, a writing tool, an AI video tutor, a general assistant, a companion chat and an image creator. The same account covers a web app, an iOS app, a Chrome extension and a paid API.
Accuracy is the main selling point. The company says feedback from 3M+ students and researchers who use it as an AI homework helper has refined the product, and it publishes benchmark scores for its paid iAsk Pro model. Those scores are vendor-reported, and the Terms of Use still disclaim any guarantee of accuracy, so both sides are covered below.
Several of these tools are split between plans. The free plan lists the AI Summarizer, while uploading files to it, the Document Analyzer and the video tutor sit in the Pro plan; the pricing section shows the full split.
iAsk reports that the iAsk Pro model scored 85.85% accuracy on the MMLU-Pro benchmark and says this beat other leading models. The company states that this MMLU-Pro run used Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning. It also publishes a downloadable file with detailed scores for all 12,032 MMLU-Pro questions across 14 subjects.
On GPQA Diamond, iAsk reports 78.28% accuracy and calls it the highest score among all AI models. The company says that figure is first-attempt accuracy (pass@1) and that iAsk Pro reached 83.83% when allowed multiple attempts (cons@5).
The student offer page cites different tests: 93.89% on the MMLU benchmark and 90.1% accuracy on TruthfulQA, with no test conditions given on that page. MMLU, MMLU-Pro and GPQA Diamond are separate tests, so these figures are not interchangeable, and no independent replication of them turned up in the sources checked in this round.
Camera search is described inconsistently. The pricing page lists a camera feature on mobile web and iOS as "coming soon" for Pro. The iOS version history added search with your camera in version 1.3.1 on September 1, 2025. Version 1.3.3, dated October 10, 2025, says visual search is now available for all users.
Only a monthly price is shown; the pricing page captured on October 2, 2026 offers no annual option. The student offer page says iAsk Pro is typically $9.99/month, which does not match the pricing page.
Students who sign up with a .edu or .ac email can get iAsk Pro free for one year, and no credit card is required. The student page describes the free year as available for a limited time.
API usage is billed per response in three tiers:
The Pro search model is therefore reachable through the API only at the most expensive tier.
The main difference between these tools is the material each one searches and the job it is tuned for.
Against these options, iAsk's distinguishing features are its student tooling: a guided homework mode, a video tutor and a free year of Pro for school email addresses.
The privacy promises differ from page to page, and the policy text is broader than the marketing:
Yes. iAsk Free costs $0 per month with unlimited daily searches on the non-Pro model and limited ads. iAsk Pro is listed at $9.95 per month on the pricing page, although the student page quotes $9.99/month.
Students who register with a .edu or .ac email can get one year of iAsk Pro free without a credit card, as a limited-time offer.
iAsk reports 85.85% on MMLU-Pro and 78.28% on GPQA Diamond (pass@1) for iAsk Pro, but these are its own figures, and the Terms of Use give no warranty on the accuracy of any output.
Its pages disagree. Marketing pages say data is not stored, while the privacy policy says chat input may be collected, stored and recorded, and the iOS privacy label lists search history as data that may be collected.
Yes. The iAsk API uses bearer-token authentication and costs $1.20, $6 or $12 per 1,000 responses depending on the tier, with iAsk Pro available only on the Advanced tier.
iAsk runs in the browser, in an iOS and iPadOS app that requires iOS 26.0 or later, and as a Chrome extension. No Android app link appeared on the official pages checked in this round.
