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These tools sit in different sets (Research assistant vs Academic discovery), so picking one over the other is mostly a question of which job you're doing. Elicit wins on privacy controls; Scite wins on 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.
These tools sit in different sets (Research assistant vs Academic discovery), so picking one over the other is mostly a question of which job you're doing. Elicit wins on privacy controls; Scite wins on 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.
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.
Citation-context and evidence-positioning tool — Research platform that analyzes citation contexts and classifies citations as supporting, contrasting, or mentioning, with Smart Citations, Scite Assistant, Reference Check, search, dashboards, alerts, API, MCP, and organization analytics.
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raw · Basic free: limited Research Agent and Research Reports; unlimited search/summaries/chat · Academic pricing, per user and billed yearly: Plus $11/mo ($132/yr), Pro $39/mo ($468/yr), Scale $89/mo ($1,068/yr) · Industry pricing, per user and billed yearly: Pro $49/mo ($588/yr), Scale $169/mo ($2,028/yr) · Enterprise custom; no training on customer data by default (vendor).
raw · Live 2026-09-14 from scite.ai/pricing: Free — no credit card, 25 MCP credits/month, no Assistant or Search. Basic $20/month billed yearly (save $96) with 7-day trial — full Assistant and Search, 250 MCP credits/month, collections up to 1,000 papers. Pro $50/month billed yearly (save $120) with 7-day trial — API access, 2,500 MCP credits/month, collections up to 10,000 papers, patent/clinical-trial/grant datasets; limited-time $60 API credit. Team and Enterprise contact [email protected]. Student/academic discounts via recommending Scite to an institution.
These tools sit in different sets (Research assistant vs Academic discovery), so picking one over the other is mostly a question of which job you're doing. Elicit wins on privacy controls; Scite wins on 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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These tools sit in different sets (Research assistant vs Academic discovery), so picking one over the other is mostly a question of which job you're doing. Elicit wins on privacy controls; Scite wins on 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.
Capabilities documented on the Elicit tool but not the Scite tool:
Capabilities documented on the Scite tool but not the Elicit tool:
Elicit: Basic Free · Academic Plus $132/yr · Academic Pro $468/yr · Academic Scale $1,068/yr · Industry Pro $588/yr · Industry Scale $2,028/yr · Enterprise Custom. Scite: Free Free · Basic $20/mo · Pro $50/mo · Team & Enterprise Custom.
On editorial fit, Elicit scores 59 out of 100 and Scite scores 70 out of 100. The score is a fit judgement for source-heavy research work, not a quality ranking — read both dossiers before you pick.