Elicit vs Citely vs ScienceOS

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

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Elicit
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Competitor 1
Citely
Competitor 2
ScienceOS
Competitor 3
Suggested competitors for Elicit: Paperguide96% AI Writer92% Consensus91% SciSpace90% Scite90% Dankgpt90% Semantic Scholar89% ResearchRabbit89%
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3 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Elicit
elicit.org
Research assistant that reads the papers
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Competitor Citely
citely.ai
Academic citation fraud poses real problems for researchers who unknowingly reference fabricated 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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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
9.2Kvisits/mo
62.9Kvisits/mo
64.9Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▼ 37.4%
▲ 3.3%
▼ 6.2%
6-month growth
+0.1%
+26.5%
+1.2%
Global rank web
#2,562,886
#561,691
#464,304
Avg. last 3 months
12.3K
59.2K
68.2K
Bounce rate lower is better
37%
37%
39%
Pages / visit
1.5
2.2
3.7
Visit duration
4s
24s
1m 37s
Traffic sources
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● Direct 77% · ● Referral 23%
● Direct 98% · ● Mail 2%
ElicitCitelyScienceOS
019.9K39.8K59.7K79.7KElicit · 7KElicit · 19KElicit · 17.3KElicit · 9.2KElicit · 4.5KElicit · 9.9KElicit · 13.1KElicit · 14.6KElicit · 9.2KCitely · 52KCitely · 44.1KCitely · 49.7KCitely · 37.2KCitely · 50.1KCitely · 53.8KCitely · 60.8KCitely · 62.9KScienceOS · 79.4KScienceOS · 75.1KScienceOS · 79.7KScienceOS · 64.1KScienceOS · 64.5KScienceOS · 56.4KScienceOS · 70.5KScienceOS · 69.2KScienceOS · 64.9K1K10K100KElicit · 7KElicit · 19KElicit · 17.3KElicit · 9.2KElicit · 4.5KElicit · 9.9KElicit · 13.1KElicit · 14.6KElicit · 9.2KCitely · 52KCitely · 44.1KCitely · 49.7KCitely · 37.2KCitely · 50.1KCitely · 53.8KCitely · 60.8KCitely · 62.9KScienceOS · 79.4KScienceOS · 75.1KScienceOS · 79.7KScienceOS · 64.1KScienceOS · 64.5KScienceOS · 56.4KScienceOS · 70.5KScienceOS · 69.2KScienceOS · 64.9KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
$10per month · free tier available
$9per month
€7.25per month · free tier available
Free tier
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Free trial
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API access
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Plans
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Trial $9Monthly $19/moYearly $14/moBeliever $347
Free FreeAngel €7.25/moTeam €6/moInstitution Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
DocumentsText
Text
DocumentsText
Output
DataText
Text
DataText
Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Intermediate
Categories
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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4
Research
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Research papers
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Literature reviews
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Citation verification
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Citations
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Academic citation
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PDF analysis
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Reviews
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Prompts
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