Scite vs Elicit

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

Scite Citation index that flags support vs. contradiction, not just count Visit Elicit AI research assistant for academic literature reviews Visit
RECATOOLS Score 6.8 / 10 7.6 / 10
Capability 7 8
Value for money 6 7
Ease of use 7 8
ASEAN readiness 6 6
API quality 6 5
Pricing Freemium Freemium
Free tier Limited citation lookups and searches Basic: unlimited search + 2 automated reports/month; ~125-200M-paper corpus
Paid from $20/month (Premium) Plus $12/mo; Pro $49/mo; Team $79/mo
Has API
Open source
Free to use
Users 15000+ institutions 200k+ researchers
Founded 2018 2018
Maker Josh Nicholson, Domenic Rosati Ought (non-profit)
Verdict

Scite's core idea — classifying whether a citing paper actually supports, contradicts, or just name-checks a claim — is still the sharpest tool in academic citation analysis, and Smart Citations make it fast to see how w...

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