Elicit
Searches academic papers, extracts data into tables, and produces research reports and systematic review workflows.
Best for Literature reviews and systematic reviews
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What it does
Searches academic papers, extracts data into tables, and produces research reports and systematic review workflows.
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Semantic paper search
Searches across scientific databases, academic papers, and clinical trials by concept and meaning rather than exact keywords. It prioritizes relevant papers using embedding models and language models.
Use caseA researcher enters a broad scientific query to find relevant literature without knowing every keyword variation.
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Systematic review screening
Screens large sets of studies using suggested or customized criteria to help narrow down papers. It provides exclusion reasons, criterion scores, and supporting quotes for each decision.
Use caseA systematic review methodologist screens thousands of studies with PRISMA auditable decisions and exclusion reasons.
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Research agent
Carries out multi step reasoning across public datasets and uploaded documents to answer complex questions. It produces fully cited outputs such as slides, charts, figures, and reports.
Use caseA pharmaceutical analyst maps competitive landscapes or analyzes patent literature across antibody drug candidates.
From elicit.com
Written from Elicit's own website, checked . Each feature links to the page it comes from; images are Elicit's own.
Every plan
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Per | What it includes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic (Free) | Free | $0 | per user | Unlimited search, summaries, paper chat; limited Research Agent and Reports |
| Pro | Not listed | $49 | per user | Systematic review workflow screening 5,000 papers, 20 table columns, reports from up to 135 sources, API access |
| Scale | Not listed | $169 | per user | Reports from up to 200 sources, 30 columns, figure extraction, real time collaboration, admin panel |
| Enterprise | Not listed | Not listed | per user | contact sales; 40,000 paper screening, unlimited API, SSO/SAML |
From Elicit's own pricing page, checked . Prices are in US dollars per month; "billed yearly" is the monthly price when you pay for a year up front. A few figures (often the yearly price) are derived rather than printed on the page.
Before you pay
- Trains on your data
- No
Only what Elicit's own pages state, with the quote behind each answer. Anything they don't publish is left out rather than guessed.
Elicit video tutorials
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What the free plan includes
Basic: unlimited search across 138M+ papers, unlimited summaries and full text paper chat, limited Research Agent/
Questions people ask about Elicit
Is Elicit free?
Yes, there is a free plan: Basic: unlimited search across 138M+ papers, unlimited summaries and full text paper chat, limited Research Agent/Report usage, Zotero import.
Does Elicit train its AI on my data?
No, the company says your data is not used for training. Source
Does Elicit have an API?
Yes.
Where this came from
Plans, prices and limits were copied from Elicit's own pages and the other sources listed, then checked .
- elicit.com/pricing
- costbench.com/software/ai-research-tools/elicit-research/
- aiagentrank.io/agent/elicit/pricing
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