Elicit vs GPT Researcher
Elicit (Elicit) and GPT Researcher (Assaf Elovic and contributors) side by side on public data, as of Oct 6, 2026.
GPT Researcher shipped 3 stable releases in the past 90 days.
Side-by-side numbers
| Metric | Elicit | GPT Researcher |
|---|---|---|
| Pulse Score | 36 | 28 |
| Overall rank | #102 | #141 |
| Downloads, last 7 days | — | 13.1K |
| Downloads, 7-day change | — | up 42.4% |
| Downloads, 30-day change | — | down 41.5% |
| VS Code installs | — | — |
| Marketplace rating | — | — |
| GitHub stars | — | 29.9K |
| Homebrew installs, 30 days | — | — |
| Hacker News mentions, 30 days | 0 | 0 |
| Latest stable release | — | 3.7.0 · 10d ago |
| Stable releases, 90 days | 3 | |
| Terminal-Bench (best run) | — | — |
| Price | Free + $49/mo | Free (OSS) |
| License | Apache-2.0 | |
| First released | — | — |
| Interfaces | — | — |
| Models |
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Elicit
An AI research platform that searches academic papers and runs a research agent, automated research reports and systematic literature review workflows (screening and data extraction). It spun out of the nonprofit Ought.
Pricing: Free plan with limited research agent and report usage. Pro $49/month billed monthly, Scale $169/month, Enterprise custom.
GPT Researcher
An open-source agent that plans research, gathers and filters many web or local sources and writes a cited report, with support for multiple model providers.
Pricing: Free open-source software; users pay their own model and search API costs.
Latest release 3.7.0:
- Benchmark, method and code: evals/contextfilter/
- Python 3.12+ is now required.
- Default context filter: without a TypeSafe key, the default is now keyword ranking instead of
- Retriever plugins: ship a search provider as its own package via the gptresearcher.retrievers entry point (#2154)