Elicit vs Perplexity Pro
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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Perplexity Pro
$20/mo Perplexity tier: unlimited search + model choice.
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.6 / 10 | 8.3 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| Free tier | Basic: unlimited search + 2 automated reports/month; ~125-200M-paper corpus | Limited free searches available |
| Paid from | Plus $12/mo; Pro $49/mo; Team $79/mo | $20/month |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✗ |
| Users | 200k+ researchers | 1m+ Pro subscribers |
| Founded | 2018 | 2022 |
| Maker | Ought (non-profit) | Perplexity AI |
| 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... |
Perplexity Pro is the $20/month (or $200/year) tier: unlimited Pro Search, roughly 20 Deep Research queries daily, file and image upload, and a choice of frontier models — GPT-5.4, Claude Opus 4.8, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and So... |
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