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Elicit vs Local Deep Research
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Elicit
AI research assistant for academic and scientific literature. Find, summarise, and analyse papers at scale.
Apps and SaaS
Local Deep Research
~95% on SimpleQA (e.g. Qwen3.6-27B on a 3090). Supports all local and cloud LLMs (llama.cpp, Ollama, Google, ...). 10+ search engines - arXiv, PubMed, your private documents.
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| Measure | Elicit | Local Deep Research |
|---|---|---|
| Basic plan | Free tier available | Not checked yet |
| Plus plan, billed annually | $11.00 per seat a month | Not checked yet |
| Pro plan, billed annually | $39.00 per seat a month | Not checked yet |
| Pro (Yearly) plan, billed annually | $49.00 per seat a month | Not checked yet |
| Scale plan, billed annually | $89.00 per seat a month | Not checked yet |
| Scale (Yearly) plan, billed annually | $229.00 per seat a month | Not checked yet |
| Days since the last commit | Not checked yet | 0 |
| GitHub forks | Not checked yet | 886 |
| GitHub stars | Not checked yet | 9,417 |
| Open issues | Not checked yet | 1,042 |
| Releases in the last 90 days | Not checked yet | 8 |
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