Elicit
VerifiedAI research assistant for academic papers
Research Agents Freemium
Released
2022
Country
United States
API
Available
Self-Host
No
Last Updated
2026-06
About Elicit
Elicit is an AI research assistant that specializes in academic literature. It can search across millions of papers, extract key findings, summarize research, and answer questions based on scientific literature. Researchers use Elicit to speed up literature reviews, find relevant papers, and synthesize research findings.
Features
Paper search
Abstract summarization
Data extraction
Research question answering
Concept explanation
Detailed Ratings
Ease of Use 6.3
Value for Money 6.7
Features 6.6
Support 6.0
Performance 6.7
Overall Rating
6.5 /10
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Specialized in academic research
- Extracts data from papers
- Saves hours of literature review
- Free tier available
Cons
- Limited to academic content
- Can miss niche papers
- Summaries sometimes lack nuance
Use Cases
Literature reviewsResearch synthesisPaper discoveryAcademic writing
Who Is It For?
Academic researchers and students who need to efficiently find, summarize, and synthesize scientific papers
#academic-research#paper-analysis#literature-review#science
Pricing Plans
Basic
Free
- Search across 125M+ papers
- Summarize up to 4 papers
- Basic data extraction
- Limited usage
Plus
$10 /month
- Unlimited paper summarization
- Advanced data extraction
- Priority access
- Export to spreadsheet
Recommended
Pro
$42 /month
- Unlimited everything
- Custom columns
- API access
- Priority support
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