Consensus
AI ResearchFreemium
AI academic search engine that scans 200M+ peer-reviewed papers and shows the scientific consensus on any question.
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Elicit
AI ResearchFreemium
AI research assistant that searches 138M+ academic papers and automates literature reviews with sentence-level citations.
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Pricing
Pricing Comparison
Consensus
Free$0
25 Pro Searches/month, basic paper access
Premium$8.99/mo
Unlimited Pro Analyses, Study Snapshots
Pro$15/mo
Unlimited searches, 15 Deep Searches/month, full analysis
API$Custom
$0.10/call plus platform fee
Elicit
Basic$0
Unlimited search, unlimited paper summaries, 20 data extractions/month
Plus$12/mo
600 extractions/year, CSV export, high-accuracy mode
Pro$49/mo
2,400 extractions/year, systematic reviews, 20 custom columns
Team$79/seat/mo
Collaborative reviews, pooled quotas, admin panel
Features
Feature Comparison
Consensus
Consensus Meter200M+ Paper DatabasePro AnalysisStudy SnapshotsAI-Generated SummariesCited Evidence Per ClaimDeep Search ModeAuthor and Journal FiltersField of Study FiltersChatGPT Plugin IntegrationAPI AccessNo-Ad ResultsPDF Access for Open PapersBookmark and Save PapersResearch Claim VerificationNatural Language QueryStudy Design Filters
Elicit
138M+ Paper DatabaseSentence-Level CitationsAutomated Data ExtractionCustom Column BuilderSystematic Review WorkflowsPRISMA 2020 SupportResearch AlertsCSV and RIS ExportChat with PapersAI Research BriefsTopic FinderAbstract Screening AutomationFull-Text ScreeningAuthor SearchZotero IntegrationResearch Question BrainstormingCollaborative Sharing
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Best For & Not For
Consensus
✅ Best For
✅Health-conscious individuals and clinicians who want to quickly check whether a supplement, treatment, or intervention has genuine scientific backing before making decisions.
✅Graduate students and academics who need a fast way to gauge whether a research question has a strong evidence base before committing to a full literature review.
✅Science communicators and journalists who need to verify claims against peer-reviewed research without spending hours on PubMed or Scopus.
❌ Not For
❌Researchers who require full systematic review workflows, PRISMA compliance, or structured data extraction across hundreds of papers, as Consensus is optimized for fast evidence discovery rather than deep extraction.
❌Users looking for humanities, law, or social science sources, since Consensus is strongest in biomedical and natural science literature.
Elicit
✅ Best For
✅PhD students and academic researchers conducting systematic literature reviews who need auditable, reproducible workflows that satisfy journal and institutional standards.
✅Clinical researchers and biotech teams running evidence synthesis at scale, needing to screen thousands of abstracts in hours rather than weeks.
✅Policy analysts and consultants who must back recommendations with peer-reviewed evidence and need structured data extracted across dozens of studies.
❌ Not For
❌Users who need a writing assistant or manuscript editor alongside their research tool, as Elicit focuses entirely on literature discovery and extraction.
❌Researchers working primarily with grey literature, news sources, or non-academic content, since Elicit indexes only peer-reviewed academic papers.
Availability
Platform & Accessibility
Consensus
web-basedapi
Elicit
web-basedapi
Use & Audience
Tasks & Who It's For
Use Cases
Real-world Use Cases
Consensus
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A fitness coach uses Consensus to verify whether high-intensity interval training is more effective than steady-state cardio for fat loss, finding a clear Yes consensus that she cites in her client coaching material.2
A medical student preparing for rounds asks Consensus whether low-dose aspirin prevents colorectal cancer, receiving a Mixed result that helps him frame a nuanced discussion with his attending.3
A health blogger uses Consensus before writing about seed oils to check whether the anti-inflammatory claims have scientific backing, and adjusts her article after seeing a Possibly verdict with limited evidence.Elicit
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A PhD candidate in public health uses Elicit to screen 800 abstracts for her systematic review on urban heat islands, finishing in one afternoon instead of three weeks, with every inclusion decision logged for her thesis committee.2
A clinical research team at a biotech firm uses Elicit's extraction tables to pull efficacy data and sample sizes from 200 RCTs on a novel drug compound, building a structured evidence map in under a day.3
A policy researcher uses Elicit Alerts to automatically receive new papers on plastic pollution legislation every week, staying current without spending hours on manual database searches.Keep Exploring