Elicit (Scholarcy) vs Elicit

A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.

Elicit (Scholarcy) Turns papers into structured flashcards: findings, methods, refs. Visit Elicit AI research assistant for academic literature reviews Visit
RECATOOLS Score 6.3 / 10 7.6 / 10
Capability 6 8
Value for money 7 7
Ease of use 7 8
ASEAN readiness 6 6
API quality 5 5
Pricing Freemium Freemium
Free tier 5 paper summaries per month Basic: unlimited search + 2 automated reports/month; ~125-200M-paper corpus
Paid from $9.99/month (Personal) Plus $12/mo; Pro $49/mo; Team $79/mo
Has API
Open source
Free to use
Users 1m+ researchers 200k+ researchers
Founded 2018 2018
Maker Phil Gooch Ought (non-profit)
Verdict

Scholarcy does one job: feed it a paper and it hands back a structured summary — key findings, methods, tables, a pulled reference list — instead of you reading twenty pages to get there. The Chrome extension is the most...

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...

Full review → Full review →
← Back to AI Directory

Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.