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Consensus vs Elicit
Consensus or Elicit? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.
In inglese
In short
- Both: Searches papers, Cites sources, Summaries, Extracts data, API
- Only Elicit states: Exports references
Consensus
Consensus searches scientific literature and uses AI to summarize, compare, and cite research papers.
Plans
Free
Free
- Basic paper search
- 10 Pro messages per month
- Dynamic AI-powered search and analysis
- Up to 3 Deep reviews per month
Pro
- $12/mo
- $144 annually
- $20/mo
- Everything in Free
- Unlimited Pro messages
- Dynamic AI-powered search and analysis
- 15 Deep reviews per month
- Unlimited access to every research tool
- 500 API & MCP uses included per month
Deep
- $45/mo
- $540 annually
- $65/mo
- Everything in Pro
- Unlimited Pro messages
- Dynamic AI-powered search and analysis
- 200 Deep reviews per month
- Unlimited access to every research tool
- 2,000 API & MCP uses included per month
Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Searches papers — “Consensus searches across a database of over 220 million peer-reviewed research papers.” source
- Cites sources — “Every AI-generated synthesis includes citations so you can trace claims back to the research used.” source
- Summaries — “Summarize findings across multiple papers” source
- Extracts data — “Extract details such as methods, sample size, and results” source
- API — “The Consensus API is now open to everyone.” source
Latest updates
- September 18th, 2026 - Full text now available in the Consensus API
The Consensus API can now return relevant full-text passages from open-access papers, including methods, results, doses, and more.
- September 15th, 2026 - Consensus is now available in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Consensus is now an official app in the Microsoft Marketplace, making it possible to search Consensus’s database of 220M+ peer-reviewed papers directly inside Microsoft…
- August 26th, 2026 - Consensus API now available to everyone
The Consensus API is now self-serve and available to everyone. Developers can bring Consensus search directly into their own apps, tools, and workflows.
Elicit
AI research assistant that searches scientific literature, summarizes evidence, creates cited reports, and supports systematic reviews.
Plans
Basic
Free
- Limited usage for Research Agent and Research Reports
- Unlimited search across more than 138 million papers
- Unlimited summaries across as many papers as you want
- Unlimited chat with papers with full-text access
- View sources for answers
- Import from Zotero
Plus
- $11 Per user/month, billed as $132 annually
- Export to RIS, CSV, BIB, PDF and DOCX
- Add 5 columns to your tables at a time
- Unlimited search across more than 500 thousand clinical trials
- Standard usage for Research Agent, Research Reports, and Systematic Literature Reviews
Pro
- $39 Per user/month, billed as $468 annually
- $49 Per user/month, billed as $588 annually
- 5x usage for Research Agent, Research Reports, and Systematic Literature Reviews
- Dedicated Systematic Review Workflow that can screen 5,000 papers
- Add 20 columns to your tables at a time
- Reports extract from up to 135 data sources
- Subscribe to 10 personalized research Alerts
- API access
Scale
- $89 Per user/month, billed as $1,068 annually
- $169 Per user/month, billed as $2,028 annually
- 9x usage for Research Agent, Research Reports, and Systematic Literature Reviews
- Extract and interpret from figures in research papers
- Live editing and real-time collaboration with your team
- Reports extract from up to 200 data sources
- Add 30 columns to your tables at a time
- Admin panel with usage tracking and seat management
Enterprise
Price on request
- Custom usage for Research Agent, Research Reports, and Systematic Literature Reviews
- Unlimited paper alerts
- No training on your data by default
- Greater scale: screen 40,000 papers and extract 40 columns
- PRISMA-grade screening and extraction accuracy
- Enterprise-level security and controls, including SSO & SAML, 2FA, user analytics, domain verification, and custom deployments (e.g. single-
Prices checked 2026-09-26 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Searches papers — “Search over 138 million academic papers and 545,000 clinical trials, with more data sources coming soon.” source
- Cites sources — “Elicit supports all AI-generated claims with sentence-level citations from the underlying sources.” source
- Summaries — “Unlimited summaries across as many papers as you wan t” source
- Extracts data — “Elicit can automate screening and data extraction of systematic reviews, while partially supporting search and report generation.” source
- Exports references — “Export to RIS, CSV, BIB, PDF and DOCX” source
- API — “API access” source
Latest updates
- Turn your Elicit Library into a shared research hub
Research Agent can now work from your Library, teams can maintain collections together, and Projects can prioritize the evidence that matters
- AI-powered research is now multiplayer
Skills, Collaborative Sessions, Artifact Editing, and Shared Projects in Elicit make AI-powered research more collaborative
- Introducing Elicit Research Agent: Rigor that powers decisions
Elicit Research Agent is an AI environment built for high-stakes decisions