Consensus vs SciSpace vs ScienceOS 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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SciSpace
Competitor 2
ScienceOS
Competitor 3
Elicit
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Consensus
consensus.app
Scientific answers from peer-reviewed research
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Competitor SciSpace
scispace.com
Make sense of research papers
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Competitor ScienceOS
scienceos.ai
Researchers waste hours hunting through literature—piecing together fragments from different papers
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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
44.2Kvisits/mo
64.9Kvisits/mo
9.2Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 3.5%
▼ 98.8%
▼ 6.2%
▼ 37.4%
6-month growth
+14.4%
-99.2%
+1.2%
+0.1%
Global rank web
#9,859
#17,447
#464,304
#2,562,886
Avg. last 3 months
5.5M
2.7M
68.2K
12.3K
Bounce rate lower is better
43%
56%
39%
37%
Pages / visit
4.1
2.5
3.7
1.5
Visit duration
3m 56s
2m 13s
1m 37s
4s
Traffic sources
● Direct 84% · ● Referral 14%
● Direct 83% · ● Referral 15%
● Direct 98% · ● Mail 2%
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ConsensusSciSpaceScienceOSElicit
01.5M2.9M4.4M5.9MConsensus · 4.4MConsensus · 4.1MConsensus · 3.9MConsensus · 4MConsensus · 5.1MConsensus · 5.9MConsensus · 5.7MConsensus · 5MConsensus · 5.6MConsensus · 5.8MSciSpace · 5.9MSciSpace · 5MSciSpace · 4.8MSciSpace · 5.1MSciSpace · 5.8MSciSpace · 5.6MSciSpace · 5MSciSpace · 4.2MSciSpace · 3.8MSciSpace · 44.2KScienceOS · 79.4KScienceOS · 75.1KScienceOS · 79.7KScienceOS · 64.1KScienceOS · 64.5KScienceOS · 56.4KScienceOS · 70.5KScienceOS · 69.2KScienceOS · 64.9KElicit · 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 · 5.8MSciSpace · 5.9MSciSpace · 5MSciSpace · 4.8MSciSpace · 5.1MSciSpace · 5.8MSciSpace · 5.6MSciSpace · 5MSciSpace · 4.2MSciSpace · 3.8MSciSpace · 44.2KScienceOS · 79.4KScienceOS · 75.1KScienceOS · 79.7KScienceOS · 64.1KScienceOS · 64.5KScienceOS · 56.4KScienceOS · 70.5KScienceOS · 69.2KScienceOS · 64.9KElicit · 7KElicit · 19KElicit · 17.3KElicit · 9.2KElicit · 4.5KElicit · 9.9KElicit · 13.1KElicit · 14.6KElicit · 9.2KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
$8.99per month · free tier available
$20per month · free tier available
€7.25per month · free tier available
$10per month · free tier available
Free tier
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Free FreePremium $20/moAdvanced $90/moMax $200/mo+1 more
Free FreeAngel €7.25/moTeam €6/moInstitution Custom
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Capabilities input → output
Input
Text
DocumentsText
DocumentsText
DocumentsText
Output
Text
DataText
DataText
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Skill level
Intermediate
Beginner-friendly
Intermediate
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Productivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool+1 more
Productivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI PDFAI Research Papers+1 more
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Tasks what each tool can do · 3 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Research papers
Research
Literature reviews
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PDF analysis
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Scientific research
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