Elicit
What is Elicit?
TL;DRElicit is an AI research assistant for finding scientific papers, extracting structured evidence, comparing studies, and accelerating literature reviews with source-backed workflows and research reports.
- Search, summarize, and chat across scientific papers
- Research Reports and systematic literature review workflows
- Custom extraction tables with columns from uploaded papers
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About
Elicit is an AI research assistant for finding papers, extracting structured evidence, comparing studies, and speeding up literature review work. It is built for research questions where users need sources, tables, summaries, reports, and repeatable extraction instead of generic web answers.
The product is useful for students, academics, analysts, medical writers, and industry research teams working with scientific literature. Elicit can search across a very large paper corpus, summarize papers, chat with full text, import from Zotero, run research reports, support systematic-review workflows, and extract custom columns from papers.
Elicit is strongest when users need to screen, summarize, and organize evidence across many papers. It is not a substitute for expert review, but it can reduce manual work around paper discovery, data extraction, alerts, report generation, and early evidence mapping.
For FutureStack, Elicit belongs in Research because it is a serious workflow tool for literature review and evidence synthesis. It is best for research teams that want structured, source-backed outputs instead of broad chatbot answers.
Use Cases
Find Research Papers
Search scientific literature semantically and identify relevant papers even when you do not know the exact keywords or terminology.
Run Literature Reviews
Screen papers, summarize findings, compare studies, and organize evidence for structured literature-review workflows.
Extract Study Data
Create custom extraction columns that pull structured information from papers for evidence tables and research analysis.
Monitor New Research
Use alerts and research workflows to stay informed about newly published work relevant to a topic or research question.
Key Features
- Search, summarize, and chat across scientific papers
- Research Reports and systematic literature review workflows
- Custom extraction tables with columns from uploaded papers
- Zotero import, alerts, sources, templates, and API access
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Pricing summary
Elicit lists Basic as free, Pro at $49/user/month billed yearly, Scale at $169/user/month billed yearly, and Enterprise as custom.
Pricing & Plans
Basic
Free research exploration with limited AI workflow usage.
Free
- Limited Research Agent
- Unlimited paper search
- Unlimited summaries
- Zotero import
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Pro
Systematic review workflows for serious researchers.
$49/month
- Standard AI usage
- 5,000-paper screening
- 20 extraction columns
- API access
Scale
Collaboration and larger usage for research teams.
$169/month
- 5x usage
- Figure extraction
- Live collaboration
- Admin panel
Other pricing notes
- Monthly and yearly views may show different per-user prices and savings.
- Enterprise adds custom usage, security controls, SSO/SAML, and larger review scale.
Pricing last checked: July 2026Official pricing
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Strong fit for serious literature review workflows
- Free plan supports casual research exploration
- Structured tables are useful for evidence synthesis
- Paid plans add reports, alerts, and extraction power
- Enterprise options support security and larger reviews
Cons
- Paid plans get expensive for solo casual users
- AI answers still require source and methodology review
- Systematic reviews still need expert judgment
- Enterprise features may be overkill for students
- Usage limits vary across agents, reports, and reviews
The Best Elicit Alternatives
The best Elicit alternatives are Consensus, Perplexity AI, and NotebookLM.
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