Elicit vs Figma

Side-by-side comparison of AI visibility scores, market position, and capabilities

Figma leads in AI visibility (99 vs 55)

Elicit

ChallengerResearch & Analytics

AI Research & Scientific Discovery

AI research assistant searching 138M+ academic papers with sentence-level citations. 2M+ researchers. Raised $33M. Founded 2023 (spun from Ought nonprofit). Private.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
C55
Category Rank
#1 of 1
AI Consensus
65%
Trend
up
Per Platform
ChatGPT
46
Perplexity
53
Gemini
61

About

Elicit is an AI research assistant spun out in 2023 from Ought (a nonprofit founded in 2017) by CEO Andreas Stuhlmuller. Headquartered in Oakland, California. It has raised $33M total including a $22M Series A (February 2025). Investors include Fifty Years, Basis Set, and angels like Tom Preston-Werner (GitHub) and Jeff Dean (Google).

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Figma

LeaderDesign & Creative Tools

Design & Collaboration

Dominant browser-based collaborative UI design platform at ~$600M ARR and $12.5B valuation; Adobe's $20B acquisition blocked by regulators in 2023, Figma remains independent competing with Sketch and Adobe.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
A99
Category Rank
#1 of 1
AI Consensus
77%
Trend
stable
Per Platform
ChatGPT
90
Perplexity
99
Gemini
97

About

Figma is a San Francisco-based collaborative web-based product design platform that has become the dominant tool for UI/UX designers and product teams — enabling real-time multi-user collaboration on interface design, prototyping, and design system management directly in the browser without installing desktop software. Founded in 2012 by Dylan Field and Evan Wallace and backed by Sequoia, Greylock, and Andreessen Horowitz with over $330 million raised, Figma generated approximately $600 million in ARR in 2023, serving 4 million+ designers and product teams at companies including Microsoft, Airbnb, Twitter, and Uber. Adobe announced a $20 billion acquisition offer in 2022, which was blocked by regulators in 2023 — Figma remains independent.

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AI Visibility Head-to-Head

55
Overall Score
99
#1
Category Rank
#1
65
AI Consensus
77
up
Trend
stable
46
ChatGPT
90
53
Perplexity
99
61
Gemini
97
50
Claude
94
49
Grok
99

Capabilities & Ecosystem

Capabilities

Only Elicit
AI Research & Scientific Discovery
Only Figma
Design & Collaboration

Integrations

Figma is classified as company.

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