Paperguide vs Elicit
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Paperguide
AI research workspace for literature search and systematic reviews
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Elicit
AI literature search, extraction and systematic reviews with sentence-...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.8 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Free plan: 2,000 AI credits a month, limited reference manager and AI searches, and 10 Search API requests | Basic: unlimited search of 138M+ papers, unlimited summaries and full-text paper chat, Zotero import; limited Research Agent and Reports usage |
| Paid from | $12/seat/month (Plus, billed yearly), or $19 billed monthly | From $11/month (academic Plus billed yearly, or $19 monthly); industry Pro $49/month yearly |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | 200k+ researchers |
| Founded | 2023 | 2020 |
| Maker | — | Andreas Stuhlmuller |
| Verdict | Paperguide puts literature search, a reference manager, data extraction, a research agent and an AI writer in one workspace, and its newer Systematic Review module adds dual-reviewer PRISMA screening where the AI prepare... |
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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