Elicit combines scholarly discovery, cited synthesis and systematic-review workflows for evidence-focused research teams.
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Searches a large scholarly corpus and a dedicated ClinicalTrials.gov corpus with semantic and Boolean options.
Full-text availability depends on open access, institutional access, browser-extension access or uploaded files.
Elicit is an AI research assistant built for scholarly discovery, evidence synthesis, and systematic review work. Its strongest capabilities are source-grounded reports, inspectable citations, screening and extraction workflows, and exports for evidence-focused teams. Coverage and full-text access have clear boundaries, so exhaustive specialist or gray literature searches may need complementary tools.
Elicit is an AI research assistant for scientific and evidence-based work. It combines scholarly search, paper screening, structured extraction, synthesis, and cited reports. Research Agent also supports broader web research, user collections, and uploaded materials, including scientific files.
Elicit supports semantic search for exploratory discovery and Boolean search for more precise systematic review queries. Its Gather workflow can combine natural-language, semantic, Boolean, trial-registry and uploaded-paper searches with de-duplication and search history. Academic coverage includes Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, and PubMed, with ClinicalTrials.gov available separately. Full text is not universal, and specialist databases and gray literature may need supplemental searching.
Reports attach sentence-level citations to claims and let users inspect supporting quotes in source papers. Research Agent exposes its plan and consulted sources. In systematic reviews, teams can inspect screening rationales and supporting passages, view extraction quotations, and use audit trails for decisions, overrides, adjudications, and reviewer agreement metrics. These controls support inspection; users still need to evaluate output accuracy.
Research Reports move from question setup through academic search, screening, extraction, and synthesis to cited output. Systematic Reviews add staged gathering, title-and-abstract screening, optional full-text screening, and structured extraction. Users can edit criteria, override screening decisions, and pilot extraction fields. Exports include PDF, Word, CSV, Excel, RIS, and BIB; collaboration and capacity vary by plan.
Elicit fits academic researchers, evidence-synthesis teams, and scientific R&D groups that need literature discovery, screening, and evidence table work. It is also useful for organizations that want to analyze imported PDFs or Zotero libraries alongside public scholarly sources. It is not a complete replacement for exhaustive specialist database or gray-literature searching, and Research Agent is designed for research assistance, extraction, and analysis rather than general-purpose writing or editing.
Where the product fits — and where to be careful
Strong fit when scholarly discovery and source-grounded synthesis are the core needs.
Strong fit for structured review work, with supplemental searching where protocols require it.
Sentence-level citations, supporting quotes, source inspection, screening rationales, extraction quotations and audit trails create strong claim-to-source inspection. Output accuracy still requires user evaluation.
Research Reports, Systematic Reviews and Research Agent cover question setup, search, screening, extraction, synthesis and export. Plan-based capacity, collaboration differences and full-text access limits prevent a higher score.
Semantic, Boolean and parallel gathering workflows search approximately 138 million academic papers and a dedicated clinical-trials corpus. Elicit clearly identifies full-text limitations and gaps for specialist databases and grey literature.
User-review evidence was insufficient to score usability, support and value.
Elicit has a free Basic plan, paid Pro and Scale plans, and custom-priced Enterprise. Published Pro and Scale figures are annual-billing equivalents; separate monthly dollar figures are not listed in the captured pricing table.
| Plan | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
Basic | Free | Unlimited paper search and summaries, with limited Research Agent and Research Report use. |
Pro | $49 per user/month ($588 billed annually) annual | Paid plan with access to applicable advanced research features and API access. |
Scale | $169 per user/month ($2,028 billed annually) annual | Paid plan with higher capacity and collaboration features. |
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Recent product and company updates
Library into research hub
Elicit announced a shared research hub where Research Agent can search personal and shared collections, save papers to collections and use collections as project context.
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