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Alethea vs Consensus vs Elicit

All three are research tools. Here is what separates them.

	Alethea	Consensus	Elicit
What it is	ALETHIA AI is a research and development studio building at the intersection of two of the most transformative technologies of our time: Generative AI and…	Answers a yes-or-no research question by aggregating what the papers actually found.	Searches academic papers and extracts findings into a table you can compare across studies.
Category	Research	Research	Research
Pricing	Paid	Freemium · Free · from $8.99/mo	Freemium · Free · from $12/mo
How it bills	Not published	Flat monthly	Flat monthly
Free tier	No	Yes	Yes
Rating	Not yet rated	Not yet rated	Not yet rated
Features	—	Evidence-based answers from papers Consensus meter across studies Study quality indicators Citation export Filters by study type	Semantic search over academic papers Structured data extraction into tables Every claim linked to a source Systematic review workflows PDF upload and analysis
What works	Sits in Research, one of the better-covered categories here — easy to compare	Shows disagreement rather than hiding it Every answer traces to papers Good free tier	Extraction is checkable in a way summaries are not Turns review into comparison Strong citation discipline
What does not	No free tier — it has to be paid for before it can be tried Does not publish a price on its own site, so the cost is only clear after signing up 44 other tools in this catalogue claim to do the same job 12 tools in the same category have a free tier	Only covers questions research has addressed Consensus meter oversimplifies Field coverage is uneven	Coverage skews to certain fields Extraction errors need spotting Paid tier needed for volume

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