Litmaps vs Elicit
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Litmaps
Discover related research with citation-graph mapping
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Elicit
AI research assistant for academic literature reviews
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | 3 maps with 200 papers each | Basic: unlimited search + 2 automated reports/month; ~125-200M-paper corpus |
| Paid from | $10/month (Researcher) | Plus $12/mo; Pro $49/mo; Team $79/mo |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✗ |
| Users | 100k+ researchers | 200k+ researchers |
| Founded | 2016 | 2018 |
| Maker | University of Otago | Ought (non-profit) |
| Verdict | Litmaps maps citation networks so you can see how papers connect, spot the seminal ones, and catch new work as it publishes — handy for systematic reviews and expanding out from a handful of seed papers. The bigger 2026... |
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... |
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