Elicit vs Scite
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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Scite
Citation index that flags support vs. contradiction, not just count
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.6 / 10 | 6.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Basic: unlimited search + 2 automated reports/month; ~125-200M-paper corpus | Limited citation lookups and searches |
| Paid from | Plus $12/mo; Pro $49/mo; Team $79/mo | $20/month (Premium) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | 200k+ researchers | 15000+ institutions |
| Founded | 2018 | 2018 |
| Maker | Ought (non-profit) | Josh Nicholson, Domenic Rosati |
| 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... |
Scite's core idea — classifying whether a citing paper actually supports, contradicts, or just name-checks a claim — is still the sharpest tool in academic citation analysis, and Smart Citations make it fast to see how w... |
| Full review → | Full review → |
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