Scholarly comparisons
Scholarly is compared head-to-head with Elicit, Consensus and SciSpace and more: 7 head-to-heads in AI Research Assistants, each with the specs and prices we checked.
Scholarly head-to-head
- Scholarly vs Elicit
- Scholarly vs Consensus
- Scholarly vs SciSpace
- Scholarly vs GPT Researcher
- Scholarly vs Folio
- Scholarly vs Scite
- Scholarly vs Gemini Notebook
Scholarly vs each of them
| # | Tool | Free plan | Paid from | Source citations | Deep research mode | Source access | File uploads | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Scholarly | Yes | $12/user/mo | Yes | Yes | Web+files+connectors | Yes | 9.0 |
| 1 | Elicit | Yes | $11/user/mo | Yes | Yes | Web+files | Yes | 9.4 |
| 2 | Consensus | Yes | 9.2 | |||||
| 4 | SciSpace | Yes | $12/mo | Yes | Yes | Web+files+connectors | Yes | 8.9 |
| 5 | GPT Researcher | Yes | Free | Yes | Yes | Web+files+connectors | Yes | 8.8 |
| 6 | Folio | Yes | $9.99/mo | Yes | Yes | Web+files+connectors | Yes | 8.7 |
| 7 | Scite | Yes | $20/mo | 8.6 | ||||
| 8 | Gemini Notebook | Yes | $9.99/mo | Yes | 8.5 |
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