Elicit vs Text-Generator vs ScienceOS vs Paperguide

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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Text-Generator
Competitor 2
ScienceOS
Competitor 3
Paperguide
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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 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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Competitor Paperguide
paperguide.ai
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
9.2Kvisits/mo
1.3Kvisits/mo
64.9Kvisits/mo
262.6Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▼ 37.4%
▼ 10.3%
▼ 6.2%
▲ 4.7%
6-month growth
+0.1%
+27.3%
+1.2%
+44.6%
Global rank web
#2,562,886
#12,444,825
#464,304
#182,104
Avg. last 3 months
12.3K
1.2K
68.2K
266.5K
Bounce rate lower is better
37%
39%
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44%
Pages / visit
1.5
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3.7
2.3
Visit duration
4s
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1m 37s
1m 32s
Traffic sources
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● Direct 98% · ● Mail 2%
● Direct 80% · ● Referral 14%
ElicitText-GeneratorScienceOSPaperguide
071.6K143.1K214.7K286.3KElicit · 7KElicit · 19KElicit · 17.3KElicit · 9.2KElicit · 4.5KElicit · 9.9KElicit · 13.1KElicit · 14.6KElicit · 9.2KText-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 · 64.9KPaperguide · 181KPaperguide · 215.1KPaperguide · 183.1KPaperguide · 181.6KPaperguide · 232.2KPaperguide · 282.6KPaperguide · 286.3KPaperguide · 250.7KPaperguide · 262.6K1001K10K100K1MElicit · 7KElicit · 19KElicit · 17.3KElicit · 9.2KElicit · 4.5KElicit · 9.9KElicit · 13.1KElicit · 14.6KElicit · 9.2KText-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 · 64.9KPaperguide · 181KPaperguide · 215.1KPaperguide · 183.1KPaperguide · 181.6KPaperguide · 232.2KPaperguide · 282.6KPaperguide · 286.3KPaperguide · 250.7KPaperguide · 262.6KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJul
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
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Starting price
$10per month · free tier available
Free tier
€7.25per month · free tier available
$12per month · free tier available
Free tier
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Free FreeAngel €7.25/moTeam €6/moInstitution Custom
Free FreePlus $12/moPro $29/moEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
TextDocuments
TextImagesCodeAudio
DocumentsText
TextDocuments
Output
TextData
TextCodeAudio
DataText
TextDocumentsData
Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Advanced
Intermediate
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Development & CodeAI API
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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Research
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Research papers
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Academic research
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Literature reviews
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Citations
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Research papers analysis
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Scientific literature exploration
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APIs
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Research assistance
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Scientific q a
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OCR
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PDF analysis
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Academic writing
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Developer tools
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Image analysis
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Literature analysis
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Medical research
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Network diagrams
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Research papers drafting
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Text to speech
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Transcription
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Writing
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