Elicit vs Perplexity Pages
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Elicit
AI literature search, extraction and systematic reviews with sentence-...
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Perplexity Pages
Perplexity's cited research pages, retired pending a promised rebuild
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.6 / 10 | 6.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Subscription |
| Free tier | Basic: unlimited search of 138M+ papers, unlimited summaries and full-text paper chat, Zotero import; limited Research Agent and Reports usage | — |
| Paid from | From $11/month (academic Plus billed yearly, or $19 monthly); industry Pro $49/month yearly | Not available on any Perplexity plan while the feature is retired |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✗ |
| Users | 200k+ researchers | Available to all Perplexity users |
| Founded | 2020 | 2024 |
| Maker | Andreas Stuhlmuller | Perplexity AI |
| Verdict | Elicit is the most complete AI tool for structured literature work: search, screening, extraction tables and cited reports in one place, with every claim tied to a source sentence. Published studies support it as a secon... |
Pages was a good idea: it turned Perplexity's cited research into an editable, shareable article for explainers and briefings. It cannot be used today. Perplexity retired page creation and has said since at least Septemb... |
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