Elicit vs Perplexity Pro
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 Pro
Perplexity's $17-a-month tier: model choice, Deep Research and Compute...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.6 / 10 | 8.3 / 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 | $17/month billed annually, with no month-to-month Pro price on the plan pages |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✗ |
| Users | 200k+ researchers | 1m+ Pro subscribers |
| Founded | 2020 | 2023 |
| Maker | Andreas Stuhlmuller | Perplexity AI, Inc. |
| 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... |
Pro is a fair upgrade for people who search and research daily: you choose among seven current models, get Deep Research and bigger upload limits, and can hand some multi-step work to Perplexity Computer each week. Every... |
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