Consensus vs Elicit vs Iris.ai vs Scite
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Consensus
AI search engine that shows what the science actually says
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Elicit
AI research assistant for academic literature reviews
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Iris.ai
AI research assistant for scientists and analysts
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Scite
Citation index that flags support vs. contradiction, not just count
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.3 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 | 6.4 / 10 | 6.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium | Enterprise | Freemium |
| Free tier | 20 searches per day with basic features | Basic: unlimited search + 2 automated reports/month; ~125-200M-paper corpus | Free trial for researchers | Limited citation lookups and searches |
| Paid from | Pro $15/mo ($10/mo annual); Deep tier for power users/researchers | Plus $12/mo; Pro $49/mo; Team $79/mo | Enterprise custom pricing | $20/month (Premium) |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | 500k+ users | 200k+ researchers | 500+ enterprise R&D teams | 15000+ institutions |
| Founded | 2022 | 2018 | 2015 | 2018 |
| Maker | Eric Olson, Christian Salem | Ought (non-profit) | Anita Schjoll Brede | Josh Nicholson, Domenic Rosati |
| Verdict | Consensus answers research questions by pulling from peer-reviewed literature rather than the open web: type a question, get a synthesized answer with citations, a Consensus Meter showing what share of studies actually a... |
Elicit owns the literature-review niche: it searches 138 million papers, pulls methods, sample sizes and findings into structured comparison tables, and links every extraction back to source text, which makes verificatio... |
Iris.ai has grown from a scientific-search engine into an enterprise agentic-RAG platform: RSpace is the researcher workspace (topic maps, concept extraction, filtering millions of papers and patents), with Neuralith and... |
Scite's core idea — classifying whether a citing paper actually supports, contradicts, or just name-checks a claim — is still the sharpest tool in academic citation analysis, and Smart Citations make it fast to see how w... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.