Elicit vs Consensus
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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Consensus
AI search engine that shows what the science actually says
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.6 / 10 | 7.3 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Basic: unlimited search + 2 automated reports/month; ~125-200M-paper corpus | 20 searches per day with basic features |
| Paid from | Plus $12/mo; Pro $49/mo; Team $79/mo | Pro $15/mo ($10/mo annual); Deep tier for power users/researchers |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | 200k+ researchers | 500k+ users |
| Founded | 2018 | 2022 |
| Maker | Ought (non-profit) | Eric Olson, Christian Salem |
| 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... |
Consensus answers research questions by pulling from peer-reviewed literature rather than the open web: type a question, get a synthesized answer with citations, a Consensus Meter showing what share of studies actually a... |
| Full review → | Full review → |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.