Consensus vs Elicit vs Notion AI vs Perplexity Pages
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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Notion AI
AI writing, summarisation, and Q&A built directly into your Notion wor...
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Perplexity Pages
Turns Perplexity research threads into shareable, cited web pages
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.3 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 | 7 / 10 | 6.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium | Paid | Freemium |
| Free tier | 20 searches per day with basic features | Basic: unlimited search + 2 automated reports/month; ~125-200M-paper corpus | 20 free AI responses to trial the feature | Free page creation on basic tier |
| Paid from | Pro $15/mo ($10/mo annual); Deep tier for power users/researchers | Plus $12/mo; Pro $49/mo; Team $79/mo | $20/user/month (Business, billed annually) — the plan that bundles full Notion AI; Plus | $20/month (Pro) |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | 500k+ users | 200k+ researchers | 100M+ total users; 4M+ paying customers (AI is gated to Business/Enterprise) | Available to all Perplexity users |
| Founded | 2022 | 2018 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Maker | Eric Olson, Christian Salem | Ought (non-profit) | Notion Labs | Perplexity AI |
| 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... |
Notion AI's advantage is context: it drafts, summarises, and answers questions across the docs, wikis, and databases you already keep in Notion, plus connected tools like Slack and Drive — no copy-paste. Custom Agents (F... |
Pages turns Perplexity research into structured, citation-backed articles you can share by URL — useful for quick explainers, and the source-linking makes output more checkable than freeform AI writing. But the feature i... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.