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| Feature | Consensus | Elicit | Perplexity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best for (differs) | Students, clinicians and researchers checking what studies say | Researchers and analysts doing literature and systematic reviews | Web research and answers with cited sources |
| Starting price (differs) | Not verified | $11/user/month, billed as $132 annually (Plus) | $17/month, billed annually (Pro) |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Ease of use | Not verified | Not verified | Not verified |
| Key features (differs) | Search across 200M+ scientific papers, Deep Search agent producing cited literature-review reports, Pro Analysis with claims tables and research-gap views, Filters for study design, sample size, date, country and preprints, Ask Paper and Research Hub for chatting with uploaded PDFs, Export to reference managers in CSV or RIS | Semantic search across 138M papers and 545K clinical trials, Systematic review workflow with screening and data extraction, Research reports with sentence-level citations, Routines that track new research over time, Library for storing and reusing sources, API and MCP access on Pro and Enterprise | Answers with citations, Deep Research, Choose a model for each query (paid plans), Create documents and apps, Search across the web, your files and connected apps, Image and video generation (paid plans) |
| Integrations (differs) | Zotero, ChatGPT | Zotero | PitchBook, Statista, Comet |
| API availability | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Collaboration (differs) | Teams plan with centralized billing and account management | Shared library; live real-time collaboration on Scale plan | Enterprise Pro adds shared Projects and governed file connectors |
| Security considerations (differs) | Not verified | SOC 2 Type II; TLS 1.2+ and AES-256 encryption; SAML SSO; no training on enterprise data | Vendor says Enterprise data is never used for training; Enterprise Max adds SCIM and audit logs. |
| Main limitations (differs) | Free tier limits advanced analyses and Deep Searches, Current plan prices could not be confirmed on an official page, Focused on academic literature rather than general web content | Free plan has limited research agent and report usage, Listed prices assume annual billing, Higher tiers are costly for individual users | Free plan allows only a few Pro Searches per day, Advanced models and Deep Research need a paid plan, Listed Pro price is billed annually |
| Last verified | 11/1/2026 | 11/1/2026 | 11/1/2026 |
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