Elicit vs Scholarcy
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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Scholarcy
Turns papers into structured flashcards: findings, methods, refs.
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.6 / 10 | 6.3 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Basic: unlimited search of 138M+ papers, unlimited summaries and full-text paper chat, Zotero import; limited Research Agent and Reports usage | Free plan capped — the pricing page says both 10 summaries and one a day |
| Paid from | From $11/month (academic Plus billed yearly, or $19 monthly); industry Pro $49/month yearly | Scholarcy Plus from SGD 13.99 a month, priced by country |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 200k+ researchers | 1m+ researchers |
| Founded | 2020 | 2018 |
| Maker | Andreas Stuhlmuller | Everway (acquired October 2025) |
| 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... |
Scholarcy does one job: feed it a paper and it hands back a structured summary — key findings, methods, tables, a pulled reference list — instead of you reading twenty pages to get there. The Chrome extension is the most... |
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