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Consensus vs Elicit

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

Compared from listings verified as of

Consensus

Research

AI search over peer-reviewed research papers, with inline citations.

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Elicit

Research

AI research assistant for literature review and evidence synthesis.

View Elicit

At a glance

Feature comparison of Consensus and Elicit
AttributeConsensusElicit
CategoryResearchResearch
PricingFREEMIUMFREEMIUM
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
DeploymentCloudCloud
Platforms (differs)Web, iOSWeb
Model supportMulti-modelMulti-model
Vendor (differs)ConsensusElicit (formerly Ought)

The honest brief

Consensus

Consensus Meter aggregates whether papers agree or disagree on a question, beyond surfacing individual citations.

  • 200M+ peer-reviewed corpus
  • Copilot drafts literature reviews
  • Inline citations on answers
  • Best answers behind paid tier
  • Coverage skews to indexed journals
  • Not for non-academic questions

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