Glossary
Glossary
Answer in brief
Plain definitions of the terms used in this reference.
Terms
- Free tier
- A plan that costs nothing but limits what you can do each day, week or month.
- Usage limit
- A cap on how much a plan lets you use in a set window, such as a number of reports per day or a multiple of a base plan.
- Seat
- One paid user account on a team or enterprise plan, usually priced per person per month.
- Data retention
- How long a vendor keeps your prompts, uploads and outputs, and when it deletes them.
- Training opt-out
- A setting or contract term that stops a vendor from using your inputs to train its AI models.
- SSO
- Single sign-on, a login method where one company account signs you into several tools at once.
- Citation
- A reference that points a reader to the source of a claim, ideally with a link and a supporting quote.
- Research report
- A multi-section document a research tool writes from many sources, usually with a summary, findings and a source list.
Cite this entry
Best AI Research Tool. “Glossary.” Hyperresearch reference, reviewed 8 November 2026.
https://bestairesearchtool.com/glossary/
https://bestairesearchtool.com/glossary/