AlphaSense vs Elicit
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
Choose AlphaSense if…
- you work on iOS, Android
- you're in its core audience: hedge funds and asset managers, private equity and investment banks
Choose Elicit if…
- you want a free plan to start with
- you need an API to build on
- you're in its core audience: academic researchers, pharma and medtech research teams
Side by side
Key features
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AlphaSense
- Search across 500M+ financial and business documents
- SuperAnalyst agent for topic monitoring with cited outputs
- Deep Research for synthesized answers to complex questions
- Tegus expert call transcripts and Wall Street broker research
- PowerPoint and Excel add-ins for decks and models
- Connectors that link other apps to the platform
- AI search over internal company content (Enterprise plan)
- Sentiment indices and financial data
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Elicit
- Search across 138M+ academic papers
- Automated screening and data extraction for systematic reviews
- Research reports with sentence-level citations
- Research Agent for in-depth questions
- Routines that refresh work with new research
- Library to store and reuse sources
- API and MCP server for agent integrations
- Zotero import
Plans and prices
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AlphaSense
Elicit
Strengths and limitations
AlphaSense
- Library of 500M+ premium documents, including expert call transcripts and broker research
- Agent outputs come with citations
- iOS and Android apps plus Office add-ins
- Enterprise plan adds search over internal content and extra hosting options
- No public prices; you have to contact sales
- Sold as annual subscriptions
- Expert calls and Canalyst financial models are paid add-ons
Elicit
- Free plan includes unlimited paper search, summaries and chat
- AI claims backed by sentence-level citations
- API access starts at the Pro plan
- Enterprise plan does not train on your data by default
- Free plan has limited Research Agent and Reports usage
- Collaboration features require the $229/user/month Scale plan
- Paid prices are listed on annual billing
- No mobile apps listed
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