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Elicit

Elicit · AI Research Assistant

An AI research assistant that finds, summarizes, and extracts structured data from scientific papers, and runs a Research Agent for multi-step evidence synthesis.

PricingFreemium

Setupeasy

Runs onWeb · API

APIYes

Open sourceNo

DocsYes

CategoryResearch

AcademicLiterature ReviewPaper SummariesData ExtractionScienceSystematic Review

Best for

Researchers, students, and R&D teams who need to process large volumes of scientific literature efficiently

Not ideal for

General web research, non-scientific topics, or tasks requiring expert validation of findings

Who it's for

Academics, pharma and policy researchers conducting systematic reviews of scientific literature

Capabilities

Semantic search across 138M+ papers and clinical trials
Automated paper summaries in plain language
Structured data extraction from studies into tables
Research Agent for multi-step evidence synthesis
Research Reports with sentence-level citations
Systematic Review workflow (screening and extraction)
Research alerts and a personal library
Export to RIS, CSV, BibTeX, PDF, and DOCX (paid plans); API and MCP access

Limitations

Focused on scientific and regulatory evidence rather than general web search
Summaries can miss nuance in complex or domain-specific papers
Exports, systematic-review workflows, and heavier Research Agent use require a paid plan
Not a substitute for domain expert review before making decisions

Use cases

Conducting a literature review quickly across many papers
Extracting structured findings from a set of studies
Identifying research gaps in a topic area
Summarising evidence for a specific claim or question
Scoping and running systematic reviews in academic, pharma, or policy contexts

Integrations & fit

ZoteroAPIMCPCSV/RIS/BibTeX export

Good fit forSolo / individual, Startup / small team, Enterprise

Pricing modelFreemium· Free tier available

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Consensus

Non-experts and analysts who want clear, source-backed answers from the scientific literature

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Scite

Research Solutions (Scite)

Researchers, scientists, and systematic reviewers who need to evaluate the evidentiary weight and replication status of specific claims in the scientific literature — not general topic discovery

Freemium

About Elicit

Elicit is an AI research assistant built for literature review and evidence-based decision-making. It searches over 138 million papers from Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, and PubMed, plus clinical trials from ClinicalTrials.gov, and produces structured summaries of relevant studies. Users can define custom data extraction columns to pull specific information from each paper, such as sample size, methodology, or key findings, and view results in a comparable table format. This makes it significantly faster to process a large volume of papers than reading each one individually. Beyond search, Elicit now offers a Research Agent that gathers evidence across papers, clinical trials, patents, regulatory data, conference abstracts, and grey literature, Research Reports with sentence-level citations, a dedicated systematic review workflow for screening and extraction, and research alerts. Elicit is not a general-purpose search engine — it is designed for structured research questions where you want to understand what a body of evidence says. It works best for systematic reviews, literature overviews, and evidence synthesis in academic, scientific, pharma, and policy contexts. The free Basic plan includes unlimited search, summaries, and chat with papers, with limited Research Agent and Report usage; paid plans add exports, systematic-review workflows, larger extraction tables, and API access.

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