Elicit vs Exa vs Text-Generator 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
Exa
Competitor 2
Text-Generator
Competitor 3
ScienceOS
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Elicit
elicit.org
Research assistant that reads the papers
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Competitor Exa
exa.ai
Search built for AI
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Competitor Text-Generator
text-generator.io
Text-Generator gives you 100 free requests monthly to start
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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
930.8Kvisits/mo
1.3Kvisits/mo
64.9Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▼ 37.4%
▲ 9.9%
▼ 10.3%
▼ 6.2%
6-month growth
+0.1%
+16.3%
+27.3%
+1.2%
Global rank web
#2,562,886
#55,392
#12,444,825
#464,304
Avg. last 3 months
12.3K
844.7K
1.2K
68.2K
Bounce rate lower is better
37%
38%
39%
39%
Pages / visit
1.5
4.3
1.1
3.7
Visit duration
4s
3m 23s
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1m 37s
Traffic sources
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● Direct 86% · ● Referral 12%
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● Direct 98% · ● Mail 2%
ElicitExaText-GeneratorScienceOS
0375.5K751K1.1M1.5MElicit · 7KElicit · 19KElicit · 17.3KElicit · 9.2KElicit · 4.5KElicit · 9.9KElicit · 13.1KElicit · 14.6KElicit · 9.2KExa · 477.2KExa · 768.9KExa · 1.5MExa · 789.9KExa · 800.6KExa · 832.8KExa · 761.4KExa · 756.6KExa · 846.8KExa · 930.8KText-Generator · 986Text-Generator · 2.6KText-Generator · 995Text-Generator · 849Text-Generator · 1.4KText-Generator · 1.3KScienceOS · 79.4KScienceOS · 75.1KScienceOS · 79.7KScienceOS · 64.1KScienceOS · 64.5KScienceOS · 56.4KScienceOS · 70.5KScienceOS · 69.2KScienceOS · 64.9K1001K10K100K1M10MElicit · 7KElicit · 19KElicit · 17.3KElicit · 9.2KElicit · 4.5KElicit · 9.9KElicit · 13.1KElicit · 14.6KElicit · 9.2KExa · 477.2KExa · 768.9KExa · 1.5MExa · 789.9KExa · 800.6KExa · 832.8KExa · 761.4KExa · 756.6KExa · 846.8KExa · 930.8KText-Generator · 986Text-Generator · 2.6KText-Generator · 995Text-Generator · 849Text-Generator · 1.4KText-Generator · 1.3KScienceOS · 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
Freemium
Starting price
$10per month · free tier available
Free tier
Free tier
€7.25per month · free tier available
Free tier
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Plans
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Starter $10/moDeveloper CustomEnterprise Custom/mo
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Free FreeAngel €7.25/moTeam €6/moInstitution Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
TextDocuments
Web pagesText
TextImagesCodeAudio
DocumentsText
Output
TextData
TextData
TextCodeAudio
DataText
Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Advanced
Advanced
Intermediate
Categories
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI API+3 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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APIs
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Research papers
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Literature reviews
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AI search
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Search engine
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Website crawling
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PDF analysis
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Text to speech
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Web scraping
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Coding
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Development
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