Consensus vs Elicit
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Consensus
AI search engine that shows what the research says
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Elicit
AI literature search, extraction and systematic reviews with sentence-...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.3 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Basic paper search, 10 Pro messages and up to 3 Deep reviews a month | Basic: unlimited search of 138M+ papers, unlimited summaries and full-text paper chat, Zotero import; limited Research Agent and Reports usage |
| Paid from | Pro $12/mo billed annually ($20 monthly); Deep $45/mo annually ($65 monthly) | From $11/month (academic Plus billed yearly, or $19 monthly); industry Pro $49/month yearly |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 500k+ users | 200k+ researchers |
| Founded | 2021 | 2020 |
| Maker | Eric Olson, Christian Salem | Andreas Stuhlmuller |
| Verdict | Consensus answers research questions from academic literature rather than the open web: a cited synthesis, natural-language filters for population, design and time frame, and a Consensus Meter showing how far studies agr... |
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... |
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