Paperguide: Good reference management and literature search features, but less advanced automated systematic review extraction tools. Elicit records 1,751,507 monthly visits with +3.1% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. Paperguide records 371,972 monthly visits with -2.9% growth and Freemium pricing.
AI research assistant for evidence-based literature review and synthesis
AI-native workspace for literature reviews and auditable systematic reviews
| Dimension / Metric | ||
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | elicit.com | paperguide.ai |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 1.75M (1,751,507) | 371.97K (371,972) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +52.71K (+3.1%) | -11.05K (-2.9%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (13.5%) | 🇺🇸 United States (25.6%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 849.67K | 121.59K |
| User Rating | 4.6 | 4.4 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
AI research assistant for evidence-based literature review and synthesis
A research agent gathers evidence across scientific databases, journals, public data and your own uploads, then produces cited reports, tables, figures and slides.
Semantic search across more than 138 million academic papers and 545,000 clinical trials, without needing exact keywords.
High-quality research briefs inspired by systematic review methodology, with deep customization of which papers and data are included.
Automated screening and data extraction for systematic reviews, with researchers reporting up to 80% time savings.
AI-native workspace for literature reviews and auditable systematic reviews
Ask a research question in plain language and get a synthesized answer drawn from PubMed, arXiv, OpenAlex and Semantic Scholar, with every claim linked to its source paper.
Run PRISMA-style reviews with a predefined protocol, recorded screening decisions, dual independent reviewers and a conflict resolver, and a PRISMA diagram generated from your actual counts.
Import from Zotero or Mendeley, add papers by DOI, and get metadata and open-access PDFs fetched automatically, with annotations and notes that feed every other workflow.
Define custom extraction columns and have AI fill them across many papers, with each value linking back to the sentence it came from, exportable to CSV or Excel.
SpecialistReal-time AI answer engine and research workspace combining live web citations with frontier reasoning models.
SpecialistReal-time AI answer engine and research workspace combining live web citations with frontier reasoning models.
Free / Open-sourceA free, AI-powered academic search engine for 240M+ papers across every scientific field
Free / Open-sourceA free, AI-powered academic search engine for 240M+ papers across every scientific field
SpecialistSuperior for quick evidence-based academic search, but less of a comprehensive writing and reference suite.
SpecialistSuperior for quick evidence-based academic search, but less of a comprehensive writing and reference suite.
Offers robust PDF analysis and literature search workspaces, but lacks advanced systematic review screening workflows.
Offers robust PDF analysis and literature search workspaces, but lacks advanced systematic review screening workflows.
Stronger AI academic writing and autocomplete assistance, but less comprehensive for systematic literature mapping.
Stronger AI academic writing and autocomplete assistance, but less comprehensive for systematic literature mapping.
SpecialistIndustry standard for systematic review screening and deduplication, but weaker on AI writing generation.
SpecialistIndustry standard for systematic review screening and deduplication, but weaker on AI writing generation.
SpecialistExcellent smart citation analysis to verify if papers support or dispute claims, but narrower writing capabilities.
SpecialistExcellent smart citation analysis to verify if papers support or dispute claims, but narrower writing capabilities.
Free / Open-sourceFree visual research discovery and literature mapping tool, but offers less automated evidence synthesis and writing.
Free / Open-sourceFree visual research discovery and literature mapping tool, but offers less automated evidence synthesis and writing.
SpecialistUnmatched visual literature discovery and graph mapping, but lacks document drafting and reference management features.
SpecialistUnmatched visual literature discovery and graph mapping, but lacks document drafting and reference management features.
One AI agent for finding, reading and writing with real research
One AI agent for finding, reading and writing with real research
SpecialistCondenses scientific papers into structured summaries, but lacks broad multi-paper literature search and matrix extraction.
SpecialistCondenses scientific papers into structured summaries, but lacks broad multi-paper literature search and matrix extraction.
The AI research paper writer built for academic work
The AI research paper writer built for academic work
