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Connected Papers vs Elicit

A side-by-side comparison of Connected Papers and Elicit, two Research tools, drawn from Ignaite's continuously-verified listings.

Compared from listings verified as of

Connected Papers

Research

Visual graphs that map the literature around any academic paper.

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Elicit

Research

AI research assistant for literature review and evidence synthesis.

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At a glance

Feature comparison of Connected Papers and Elicit
AttributeConnected PapersElicit
CategoryResearchResearch
PricingFREEMIUMFREEMIUM
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
DeploymentCloudCloud
PlatformsWebWeb
Model support (differs)Model-agnosticMulti-model
Vendor (differs)Connected PapersElicit (formerly Ought)

The honest brief

Connected Papers

A visual citation-graph map rather than a chat assistant — surfaces adjacent prior and derivative work a keyword search would overlook.

  • Visual map of a research area
  • Finds related work beyond keywords
  • Built on the Semantic Scholar corpus
  • Free tier with 5 graphs per month
  • Affordable academic plan
  • Free tier capped at 5 graphs/month
  • Coverage limited to indexed papers
  • Not a full-text reading or chat tool

Elicit

One of few research tools with a real systematic-review screening pipeline and structured data extraction at scale.

  • Search, screen, extract, synthesize in one flow
  • Structured extraction with custom columns
  • Evidence synthesis across large paper sets
  • Benchmarked against Cochrane reviews
  • No PICO framework or Boolean operators
  • Systematic-review features gated to Pro
  • Credit-based free tier (one-time)
  • Coverage limited to indexed literature