Elicit (Scholarcy) vs Semantic Scholar
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.
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Semantic Scholar
Free AI-powered academic search across 236M+ papers, all fields.
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.3 / 10 | 8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Free tier | 5 paper summaries per month | Full access to all features for free |
| Paid from | $9.99/month (Personal) | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 1m+ researchers | 50m+ monthly visits |
| Founded | 2018 | 2015 |
| Maker | Phil Gooch | Allen Institute for AI |
| 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... |
Semantic Scholar, run by the nonprofit Allen Institute for AI, indexes over 236 million papers and ranks them by meaning rather than keyword overlap, which is where it beats Google Scholar's plain matching. The TLDR one-... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.