Rayyan vs Elicit
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Rayyan
Systematic-review screening with blind mode, dedup and AI assistance
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Elicit
AI literature search, extraction and systematic reviews with sentence-...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.2 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Free forever: 3 active reviews, 2 invited reviewers, 1 sample, AI relevance predictions, limited mobile app use | Basic: unlimited search of 138M+ papers, unlimited summaries and full-text paper chat, Zotero import; limited Research Agent and Reports usage |
| Paid from | $4.99/seat/month billed annually (Essential); $8.33/month billed quarterly | From $11/month (academic Plus billed yearly, or $19 monthly); industry Pro $49/month yearly |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 300k+ researchers | 200k+ researchers |
| Founded | 2014 | 2020 |
| Maker | Mourad Ouzzani, Hossam Hammady | Andreas Stuhlmuller |
| Verdict | Rayyan is still the default screening tool for systematic reviews: blind dual screening, reliable duplicate handling and relevance ranking work well, and the free plan is enough for a first review. Individual plans are c... |
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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