Elicit vs Paperguide
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Elicit
AI research assistant for academic literature reviews
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Paperguide
AI research assistant with semantic paper search
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.6 / 10 | 6.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Basic: unlimited search + 2 automated reports/month; ~125-200M-paper corpus | — |
| Paid from | Plus $12/mo; Pro $49/mo; Team $79/mo | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✗ |
| Users | 200k+ researchers | — |
| Founded | 2018 | 2023 |
| Maker | Ought (non-profit) | — |
| Verdict | 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... |
Paperguide bundles AI literature search, citation-backed answers, a reference manager and an academic writing assistant over a large paper database, putting several research workflows in one tool. The free tier is unusua... |
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