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Elicit vs scite
Elicit or scite? 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, API
- Only Elicit states: Summaries, Extracts data, Exports references
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
scite
Scite helps researchers search scientific literature, evaluate citation context, and trace whether findings are supported, contradicted, or mentioned.
Plans
Connect
Free
- 25 MCP credits/month
- Use in ChatGPT, Claude, & more
- Grounded in 300M+ papers
- No Assistant or Search access
Basic
- $20 / month Billed yearly
- Full Assistant & Search access
- 250 MCP credits/month
- Article Smart Citation reports
- Collections up to 1,000 papers
- Citation alerts & dashboards
Pro
- $50 / month Billed yearly
- Everything in Basic, plus:
- API access
- $60 API credit included, limited time only
- 2,500 MCP credits/month
- Collections up to 10,000 papers
- Patent, clinical trial, & grant datasets
Prices checked 2026-09-24 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Searches papers — “Scite Search lets you match on citation statements extracted from the full text” source
- Cites sources — “Unlike general-purpose AI tools, every answer is drawn from peer-reviewed literature and linked to its source.” source
- API — “and is available through our API for teams building their own tools.” source
Latest updates
- Citation Surfing with Scite MCP
Scite MCP includes a citation graph tool that lets AI agents like ChatGPT and Claude explore how papers are connected through citations.
- August 2026 Release Notes
Connect Scite to AI assistants, try Scite, and choose a plan.
- July 2026 Release Notes
Stay on top of research and get more visibility and control over using Scite across AI tools.