Consensus vs Perplexity Sonar API vs Elicit

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

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Consensus
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Perplexity Sonar API
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Elicit
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Suggested competitors for Consensus: Perplexity AI78% Scite78% SciSpace76% ScholarAI76% Undermind74% Paperguide74% ScienceOS74% Semantic Scholar72%
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Your tool Consensus
consensus.app
Scientific answers from peer-reviewed research
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Competitor Perplexity Sonar API
docs.perplexity.ai
Perplexity Sonar API is the developer platform behind Perplexity's real-time web research, exposed as a Router API, an Agent API, a Search API and an Embeddings API.
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Competitor Elicit
elicit.org
Research assistant that reads the papers
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
5.8Mvisits/mo
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9.2Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 3.5%
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▼ 37.4%
6-month growth
+14.4%
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+0.1%
Global rank web
#9,859
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#2,562,886
Avg. last 3 months
5.5M
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12.3K
Bounce rate lower is better
43%
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37%
Pages / visit
4.1
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1.5
Visit duration
3m 56s
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4s
Traffic sources
● Direct 84% · ● Referral 14%
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ConsensusPerplexity Sonar APIElicit
01.5M2.9M4.4M5.9MConsensus · 4.4MConsensus · 4.1MConsensus · 3.9MConsensus · 4MConsensus · 5.1MConsensus · 5.9MConsensus · 5.7MConsensus · 5MConsensus · 5.6MConsensus · 5.8MElicit · 7KElicit · 19KElicit · 17.3KElicit · 9.2KElicit · 4.5KElicit · 9.9KElicit · 13.1KElicit · 14.6KElicit · 9.2K1K10K100K1M10MConsensus · 4.4MConsensus · 4.1MConsensus · 3.9MConsensus · 4MConsensus · 5.1MConsensus · 5.9MConsensus · 5.7MConsensus · 5MConsensus · 5.6MConsensus · 5.8MElicit · 7KElicit · 19KElicit · 17.3KElicit · 9.2KElicit · 4.5KElicit · 9.9KElicit · 13.1KElicit · 14.6KElicit · 9.2KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
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Model
Freemium
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Freemium
Starting price
$8.99per month · free tier available
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$10per month · free tier available
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API access
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Router API CustomAgent API CustomSearch API CustomEmbeddings API Custom+1 more
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Capabilities input → output
Input
Text
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DocumentsText
Output
Text
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DataText
Skill level
Intermediate
Advanced
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Productivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool+1 more
Development & CodeAI API
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Research
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Research papers
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Academic research
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Literature reviews
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Medical research
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APIs
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Research assistance
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Search engine
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Web search
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Information retrieval
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LLM gateway
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Research papers analysis
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Research papers summaries
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Scientific research
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Web search summaries
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Agents
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Developer tools
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Development
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Model routing
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