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ElicitvsRayyan

These cards sit in different sets (Research assistant vs Systematic review), so picking one over the other is mostly a question of which job you're doing. Elicit wins on citation honesty; Rayyan wins on privacy controls, speed, and value for money. Both pass our quality gate. The right pick is the one whose strengths match the job you're trying to do.

Elicit · avg
65
wins 5 of 16
Rayyan · avg
67
wins 9 of 16
Fields differ
10
of 16 dossier rows
Receipts
19
sources + bench notes

Checked 2026-06-09 · Elicit·Checked 2026-06-09 · Rayyan

Dossier fields

Sixteen fields, side by side.

No.FieldElicitRayyan
01Status · Editorial quality gateSolidSolid
02Editorial fit · 0–100 score59 / 10060 / 100
03CategoryResearch assistantSystematic review
04Primary surfaceProsumer SaaSProsumer SaaS
05Modalities
  • Text
  • Data
  • Text
  • Data
06Role in a stackPaper discovery, evidence-table extraction, and systematic-review supportSystematic review screening and collaborative triage
07Best for
  • Building structured evidence tables across many papers
  • Early-stage systematic review screening and extraction workflows
  • Researchers who need cited summaries plus column-based extraction, not just a chatbot answer
  • Policy, pharma, medtech, and academic teams that value sentence-level citations, PRISMA-style method traces, and auditable extraction
  • Screening titles and abstracts in systematic or scoping reviews
  • Teams that need blinded/collaborative inclusion decisions before full-text review
  • Students learning review workflows who need dedupe, labels, PICO hints, and PRISMA support in one workspace
  • Institutions that want centralized review workflows with ResearchPilot and larger reviewer/viewer pools
08Avoid if
  • You need a cheap casual search tool rather than a high-cost research workflow
  • Your review data, uploaded PDFs, or unpublished documents cannot leave local infrastructure without a DPA
  • You expect PRISMA-grade results without human screening, extraction checks, and protocol review
  • Your main need is reference management or citation writing rather than evidence synthesis
  • You need collaborators to inherit premium features on reviews you do not own without an Institutional plan
  • You only need free screening for more than three active reviews simultaneously
  • You want PRISMA automation or AI screening without checking tier limits and audit requirements
  • Your review library includes sensitive, unpublished, or identifiable material that cannot live in a cloud review workspace
09Capabilities tracked
  • Search across 138M+ papers
  • ClinicalTrials.gov source support
  • Paper chat with full-text access
  • Zotero import
  • Automated Reports
  • Systematic Review Workflow
  • Screening up to 5,000 papers on Pro and 40,000 on Enterprise
  • Extraction columns
  • Sentence-level citations
  • PRISMA/methods/search-strategy report outputs
  • API access
  • Title/abstract screening
  • AI/ML/NLP prioritization
  • labels/facets/filters
  • duplicate detection
  • auto-resolve duplicates on paid tiers
  • PICO extraction AI on Advanced
  • PRISMA Flow Diagram Generator
  • mobile app as premium feature
  • Free/Essential/Advanced reviewer-viewer pools
  • institutional ResearchPilot suite
  • subscriptions auto-renew by default
10Failure modes · Documented, not buried
  • Pricing jumps quickly from free to Pro/Scale
  • Structured tables and reports still require human validation
  • Uploaded papers/Zotero imports create cloud privacy boundary
  • Corpus and full-text coverage vary by discipline
  • Vendor accuracy claims need independent reproduction
  • Basic plan limits can distort real review workflows
  • Free tier caps active reviews and collaborators
  • Free reviewers/viewers do not inherit premium AI/PICO/mobile features
  • Institutional plans cannot be purchased online and require sales setup
  • Quarterly billing costs more than annual
  • ResearchPilot is institutional-only beyond help mode
  • AI screening/extraction still require human audit
11Evidence levelSynthesizedSynthesized
12Sources verified · Receipts on the dossier
13Benchmark entries
  • Extract PICO/design/outcome fields from 20 papers and compare against a hand-coded table.
    Pending.
  • Screen 200 records with known include/exclude labels and distractors.
    Pending.
  • Generate a research report from a controlled paper set; verify every claim against sentence-level citations.
    Pending.
  • Model Basic, Pro, Scale, and Enterprise fit for a student thesis, policy brief, pharma SLR, and lab collaboration.
    Pending.
  • Import 50 records with deliberate duplicates and conflicting abstracts; screen with two reviewers and resolve conflicts.
    Pending.
  • Compare AI suggestions/PICO extraction against a hand-coded answer key.
    Pending.
  • Model a solo student, two-reviewer thesis, five-person lab, and institutional library.
    Pending.
14Alternatives tracked
  • Consensus
  • Scite
  • Semantic Scholar
  • Rayyan
  • Connected Papers
  • Covidence
  • DistillerSR
  • ASReview
  • EPPI-Reviewer
  • Colandr
15Pricing checked2026-06-092026-06-09
16Last verified2026-06-092026-06-09
16 metrics

Sixteen numbers, one shared midline.

ElicitvsRayyan

These cards sit in different sets (Research assistant vs Systematic review), so picking one over the other is mostly a question of which job you're doing. Elicit wins on citation honesty; Rayyan wins on privacy controls, speed, and value for money. Both pass our quality gate. The right pick is the one whose strengths match the job you're trying to do.

  1. Editorial fit
    Elicit59Rayyan60
  2. Source quality
    Elicit52Rayyan55
  3. Citation honesty
    Elicit70Rayyan66
  4. Privacy controls
    Elicit46Rayyan53
  5. Value for money
    Elicit56Rayyan78
  6. Speed
    Elicit58Rayyan70
  7. Integration
    Elicit75Rayyan57
  8. Onboarding
    Elicit58Rayyan70
  9. Reliability
    Elicit70Rayyan76
  10. Feature depth
    Elicit100Rayyan90
  11. Data portability
    Elicit55Rayyan49
  12. Transparency
    Elicit100Rayyan98
  13. Ecosystem reach
    Elicit75Rayyan57
  14. Documentation
    Elicit52Rayyan55
  15. Independence
    Elicit46Rayyan53
  16. Affordability
    Elicit67Rayyan79
Elicit · avg 65 · wins 5 of 160avg 67 · wins 9 of 16 · Rayyan
EvidenceElicit 1 · Rayyan 2
  1. 01Editorial fit
    59
    60
  2. 02Source quality
    52
    55
  3. 03Citation honesty
    70
    66
  4. 04Privacy controls
    46
    53
PrivacyElicit 1 · Rayyan 3
  1. 05Value for money
    56
    78
  2. 06Speed
    58
    70
  3. 07Integration
    75
    57
  4. 08Onboarding
    58
    70
CapabilityElicit 2 · Rayyan 1
  1. 09Reliability
    70
    76
  2. 10Feature depth
    100
    90
  3. 11Data portability
    55
    49
  4. 12Transparency
    100
    98
Cost & fitElicit 1 · Rayyan 3
  1. 13Ecosystem reach
    75
    57
  2. 14Documentation
    52
    55
  3. 15Independence
    46
    53
  4. 16Affordability
    67
    79
CARD A · Elicit
Research assistant
Elicit
59/100
ROLEPaper discovery, evidence-table extraction, and systematic-review support
Editorial fit
59
Source quality
52
Citation honesty
70
Privacy controls
46
Value for money
56
Speed
58
FREEBasic
$49/MOPro
$169/MOScale
SolidVerified 2026-06-09VP·METHOD

Paper discovery, evidence-table extraction, and systematic-review support — AI research assistant for searching, summarizing, chatting with papers, screening studies, extracting fields, generating research reports, and supporting systematic reviews across large scientific corpora and uploaded documents.

CARD B · Rayyan
Systematic review
Rayyan
60/100
ROLESystematic review screening and collaborative triage
Editorial fit
60
Source quality
55
Citation honesty
66
Privacy controls
53
Value for money
78
Speed
70
FREEFree
$4.99/MOper seat
$8.33/MOper seat
SolidVerified 2026-06-09VP·METHOD

Systematic review screening and collaborative triage — Cloud systematic-review screening workspace for title/abstract triage, deduplication, labels, PICO extraction, PRISMA flow support, collaborators, mobile screening, and AI-assisted inclusion decisions.

Privacy facets

Where each card is actually private.

ElicitRayyan
Training on your dataYesYes: Off by defaultUnknownUnknown: Not stated
EU data residencyPartialPartial: Enterprise tier onlyNoNo: Not documented
SOC 2 attestationNoNo: Not documentedYesYes: Documented
Local-first by defaultNoNo: Cloud onlyNoNo: Cloud only
Capability split

What each card does uniquely.

Only Elicit11

  • Search across 138M+ papers
  • ClinicalTrials.gov source support
  • Paper chat with full-text access
  • Zotero import
  • Automated Reports
  • Systematic Review Workflow
  • Screening up to 5,000 papers on Pro and 40,000 on Enterprise
  • Extraction columns
  • Sentence-level citations
  • PRISMA/methods/search-strategy report outputs
  • API access

Shared0

No overlap detected.

Only Rayyan11

  • Title/abstract screening
  • AI/ML/NLP prioritization
  • labels/facets/filters
  • duplicate detection
  • auto-resolve duplicates on paid tiers
  • PICO extraction AI on Advanced
  • PRISMA Flow Diagram Generator
  • mobile app as premium feature
  • Free/Essential/Advanced reviewer-viewer pools
  • institutional ResearchPilot suite
  • subscriptions auto-renew by default
Failure modes

Where each card breaks.

Elicit

  • Pricing jumps quickly from free to Pro/Scale
  • Structured tables and reports still require human validation
  • Uploaded papers/Zotero imports create cloud privacy boundary
  • Corpus and full-text coverage vary by discipline
  • Vendor accuracy claims need independent reproduction
  • Basic plan limits can distort real review workflows

Rayyan

  • Free tier caps active reviews and collaborators
  • Free reviewers/viewers do not inherit premium AI/PICO/mobile features
  • Institutional plans cannot be purchased online and require sales setup
  • Quarterly billing costs more than annual
  • ResearchPilot is institutional-only beyond help mode
  • AI screening/extraction still require human audit
Pricing

Pulled straight from each dossier.

Elicit

Research assistant
  • FREEBasic
  • $49/MOPro
  • $169/MOScale

raw · Basic free: 2 reports/mo, search/summaries/chat, 2 columns · Pro USD 49/user/mo billed annually: 5,000-paper systematic review workflow, 144 reports/reviews/yr, 20 columns, API · Scale USD 169/user/mo annual: collaboration, figures, 240 reports/reviews/yr, 30 columns · Enterprise custom.

Rayyan

Systematic review
  • FREEFree
  • $4.99/MOper seat
  • $8.33/MOper seat

raw · Verified 2026-06-07 from official Rayyan pricing/help: Free $0 with 3 active reviews, up to 2 free reviewers/viewers, duplicate detection, Legacy Compute Rating, 15+ facets/filters; Essential $4.99/seat/mo annual or $8.33 quarterly with PRISMA diagram, auto-resolve duplicates, 5 free reviewers/viewers, mobile/premium features; Advanced $8.33/seat/mo annual or $13.33 quarterly with 9 active reviews shared, 10 reviewers/viewers, unlimited samples, PICO extraction AI, Advanced Compute Rating coming soon, priority support. Institutional Academic $25/license/mo annual; institutional plans require sales setup.

Verdict

Which card to actually pick.

These cards sit in different sets (Research assistant vs Systematic review), so picking one over the other is mostly a question of which job you're doing. Elicit wins on citation honesty; Rayyan wins on privacy controls, speed, and value for money. Both pass our quality gate. The right pick is the one whose strengths match the job you're trying to do.

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