Elicit vs FutureHouse
A side-by-side comparison of Elicit and FutureHouse, drawn from Ignaite's continuously-verified listings.
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FutureHouse
ScienceAI agents that automate scientific literature research and discovery.
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| Attribute | Elicit | FutureHouse |
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| Category (differs) | Research | Science |
| Pricing (differs) | FREEMIUM | FREE |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Deployment | Cloud | Cloud |
| Platforms (differs) | Web | Web, API |
| Model support (differs) | Multi-model | — |
| Vendor (differs) | Elicit (formerly Ought) | FutureHouse |
| Capabilities (differs) |
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The honest brief
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
FutureHouse
Unlike chat-based research tools, its agents are tuned and benchmarked on scientific literature tasks — PaperQA2 posted superhuman lit-search scores.
- Free to use
- Specialized science agents
- Open API access
- Strong lit-search benchmarks
- Narrow to research workflows
- Accuracy not guaranteed
- Smaller model ecosystem
- Newer platform
When to pick which
Elicit leans on Literature review as a headline capability; FutureHouse treats it as secondary.
- Literature review (primary capability)
They also differ on:
- Pricing
- FREEMIUM · FREE
- Platforms
- Web · Web, API
Their capability lists differ in recorded depth — compare the full lists above before deciding.