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
At a glance
| Attribute | Consensus | Elicit |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Research | Research |
| Pricing | FREEMIUM | FREEMIUM |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Deployment | Cloud | Cloud |
| Platforms (differs) | Web, iOS | Web |
| Model support | Multi-model | Multi-model |
| Vendor (differs) | Consensus | Elicit (formerly Ought) |
| Capabilities (differs) |
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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
When to pick which
Both cover Cited answers, Literature search, Literature review, Summarization, and 1 more.
Pick Elicit if you need Report generation.
- Report generation (secondary capability)
They share capabilities, but each leads with different ones as a headline job:
Consensus is built around Cited answers.
- Cited answers (primary capability)
Elicit is built around Literature review.
- Literature review (primary capability)
They also differ on:
- Platforms
- Web, iOS · Web