Elicit

Elicit is an AI research assistant for exploring academic literature and conducting structured research. It searches more than 138 million papers on the Basic plan, generates summaries, supports chat with full-text papers, and can run Research Agent and Research Reports. Higher plans add exports, systematic-review workflows, larger screening volumes, custom extraction, alerts, collaboration, API access, and enterprise controls.

✨ Key Features

• Search academic papers — Find literature across Elicit’s large paper index.
• Summarize papers — Generate summaries across many papers during literature exploration.
• Chat with full text — Ask questions about papers and view sources for answers.
• Run Research Agent — Use agentic research workflows with plan-specific usage limits.
• Create Research Reports — Extract and organize evidence into structured reports.
• Build literature-review tables — Add columns to compare papers and their findings.
• Screen systematic reviews — Pro supports a dedicated workflow for screening up to 5,000 papers.
• Extract from figures and papers — Higher tiers support custom extraction and interpretation from figures.
• Export research outputs — Plus and above export RIS, CSV, BIB, PDF, and DOCX.
• Set research alerts — Pro and above support personalized research alerts.
• Collaborate securely — Scale and Enterprise add real-time collaboration, administration, security, and custom deployments.

💳 Pricing

• Basic — Free; unlimited search across more than 138 million papers, unlimited summaries, unlimited chat with full-text papers, source viewing, and Zotero import, with limited Research Agent and Research Reports usage.
• Plus — $11/user/month billed annually at $132/year; exports to RIS/CSV/BIB/PDF/DOCX, five table columns at a time, unlimited search across more than 500,000 clinical trials, and standard usage for Research Agent, Reports, and Systematic Literature Reviews.
• Pro — $39/user/month billed annually at $468/year; 5× usage, dedicated systematic-review workflow screening up to 5,000 papers, 20 columns at a time, up to 135 data sources, alerts, custom extraction, multiple output templates, and API access.
• Scale — $89/user/month billed annually at $1,068/year; 9× usage, figure extraction and interpretation, real-time team collaboration, up to 200 data sources, 30 columns at a time, and admin usage/seat controls.
• Enterprise — Custom pricing; custom usage, unlimited alerts, no training on data by default, screening up to 40,000 papers, 40 columns, PRISMA-grade screening and extraction, SSO/SAML, 2FA, analytics, custom deployments, dedicated success, custom data sources, and unlimited Search API access.

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🎯 Use Cases

• Students exploring a new research topic.
• Researchers building literature-review tables.
• Academics screening papers for a systematic review.
• Analysts exporting evidence into a citation manager or report.
• Teams comparing findings across papers with custom columns.
• Researchers asking questions of full-text papers.
• Scientists monitoring new work with personalized alerts.
• Organizations collaborating on structured evidence synthesis.
• Research groups integrating search or extraction into workflows through the API.