Paperguide vs Elicit vs Defapi vs Sourcely

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

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Paperguide
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Elicit
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Paperguide
paperguide.ai
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Competitor Elicit
elicit.org
Research assistant that reads the papers
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Competitor DDefapi
defapi.org
You know how managing multiple AI provider integrations usually means maintaining separate codebases for each vendor
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Competitor Sourcely
sourcely.net
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
262.6Kvisits/mo
9.2Kvisits/mo
2.4Kvisits/mo
121.3Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 4.7%
▼ 37.4%
▼ 42.6%
▼ 17.6%
6-month growth
+44.6%
+0.1%
-86.2%
-27.7%
Global rank web
#182,104
#2,562,886
#4,650,820
#330,988
Avg. last 3 months
266.5K
12.3K
4.8K
143.2K
Bounce rate lower is better
44%
37%
36%
39%
Pages / visit
2.3
1.5
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2.2
Visit duration
1m 32s
4s
7s
33s
Traffic sources
● Direct 80% · ● Referral 14%
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● Direct 63% · ● Referral 35%
PaperguideElicitDefapiSourcely
071.6K143.1K214.7K286.3KPaperguide · 181KPaperguide · 215.1KPaperguide · 183.1KPaperguide · 181.6KPaperguide · 232.2KPaperguide · 282.6KPaperguide · 286.3KPaperguide · 250.7KPaperguide · 262.6KElicit · 7KElicit · 19KElicit · 17.3KElicit · 9.2KElicit · 4.5KElicit · 9.9KElicit · 13.1KElicit · 14.6KElicit · 9.2KDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4KSourcely · 173KSourcely · 157.2KSourcely · 167.7KSourcely · 167.8KSourcely · 202.7KSourcely · 169.2KSourcely · 161.1KSourcely · 147.1KSourcely · 121.3K1K10K100K1MPaperguide · 181KPaperguide · 215.1KPaperguide · 183.1KPaperguide · 181.6KPaperguide · 232.2KPaperguide · 282.6KPaperguide · 286.3KPaperguide · 250.7KPaperguide · 262.6KElicit · 7KElicit · 19KElicit · 17.3KElicit · 9.2KElicit · 4.5KElicit · 9.9KElicit · 13.1KElicit · 14.6KElicit · 9.2KDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4KSourcely · 173KSourcely · 157.2KSourcely · 167.7KSourcely · 167.8KSourcely · 202.7KSourcely · 169.2KSourcely · 161.1KSourcely · 147.1KSourcely · 121.3KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Paid
Freemium
Starting price
$12per month · free tier available
$10per month · free tier available
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$19per month · free tier available
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Plans
Free FreePlus $12/moPro $29/moEnterprise Custom
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Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview $1/$6/per requestClaude Sonnet 4.6 $1.5/$7.5/per requestClaude Opus 4.6 $2.5/$12.5/per requestSora 2 Stable $0.175+/per request+2 more
Free FreeUltra $19/moMax $39/mo
Capabilities input → output
Input
TextDocuments
TextDocuments
TextImagesAudio
Text
Output
DataDocumentsText
TextData
TextImagesAudio
Text
Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Advanced
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
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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Academic research
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Research
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Research papers
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Literature reviews
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Citations
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Research papers analysis
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Research assistance
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API management
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Academic citation
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Citation formatting
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Research papers summaries
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Scientific literature exploration
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API security
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Academic q a
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Academic writing
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Medical research
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Research papers drafting
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Writing
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