Semantic Scholar vs Elicit
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Semantic Scholar
Free AI-assisted academic search across 200M+ papers, from Ai2
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Elicit
AI literature search, extraction and systematic reviews with sentence-...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| Free tier | Search, paper pages, TLDRs (CS/biomed), Semantic Reader, alerts, feeds and the API are free; an API key gives 1 request/sec | Basic: unlimited search of 138M+ papers, unlimited summaries and full-text paper chat, Zotero import; limited Research Agent and Reports usage |
| Paid from | — | From $11/month (academic Plus billed yearly, or $19 monthly); industry Pro $49/month yearly |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 50m+ monthly visits | 200k+ researchers |
| Founded | 2015 | 2020 |
| Maker | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) | Andreas Stuhlmuller |
| Verdict | Semantic Scholar remains one of the best free tools for finding and tracing academic literature, with excellent citation data and a generous free API that other research tools build on. Its AI features are narrower than... |
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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