Elicit
AI ResearchFreemium
AI research assistant that searches 138M+ academic papers and automates literature reviews with sentence-level citations.
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SciSpace
AI ResearchFreemium
AI research copilot for reading, understanding, and discovering 270M+ scientific papers with inline explanations and smart search.
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Pricing
Pricing Comparison
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
SciSpace
Free$0
Limited AI queries, basic search, browser extension
Premium$8/mo (annual)
Unlimited AI chat, Deep Review, advanced search, all features
Labs and Universities$Custom
Institutional licensing, volume access
Features
Feature Comparison
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
SciSpace
AI Copilot for Paper Explanations270M+ Paper DatabaseDeep Review SearchFind Topics ToolCustom Table ColumnsCitation GeneratorAI ParaphraserAI Detection ToolBrowser ExtensionLiterature Review AssistantChat with PDFRelated Paper DiscoveryEquation and Table ExplanationMulti-Paper ComparisonBibTeX and RIS ExportWriting Assistant IntegrationAuthor and Journal Filters
Fit
Best For & Not For
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.
SciSpace
✅ Best For
✅Undergraduate and postgraduate students in STEM who struggle with dense academic language and need instant, plain-language explanations of methods, statistics, and terminology within papers.
✅Independent researchers and clinicians in fields adjacent to their specialty who need to quickly understand literature outside their core expertise without hiring a research assistant.
✅Science communicators, journalists, and policy researchers who need to accurately interpret complex scientific findings without the time to read every paper end-to-end.
❌ Not For
❌Researchers who need systematic review automation with PRISMA compliance and full extraction audit trails, as SciSpace is better suited for reading assistance and discovery than rigorous systematic workflows.
❌Users who require a reference manager with syncing across desktop and mobile citation managers like Zotero or Mendeley, which SciSpace does not fully replace.
Availability
Platform & Accessibility
Elicit
web-basedapi
SciSpace
web-basedchrome-extension
Use & Audience
Tasks & Who It's For
Use Cases
Real-world Use Cases
Elicit
1
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.SciSpace
1
An engineering student uploads a dense quantum computing paper and highlights three paragraphs she doesn't understand, receiving clear plain-language explanations from SciSpace's AI Copilot that help her write her seminar report confidently.2
A health journalist uses SciSpace to search for recent papers on mRNA vaccine durability, generating a custom comparison table that shows study design, sample size, and key findings side by side across 15 papers.3
A medical doctor researching an unfamiliar condition uses SciSpace's browser extension to read papers directly in PubMed with AI explanations appearing inline for every technical term.Keep Exploring