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Elicit
Elicit: AI research assistant for researchers that searches papers and clinical trials, extracts data and generates cited research reports.
- Free plan
- API · Plugin or MCP
- Verified 15 Oct 2026
What Elicit does
Elicit is an AI research assistant that searches academic papers and clinical trials, summarizes and extracts data from them, and generates cited research reports. Its research agent gathers evidence across scientific databases, journals, public data and uploaded documents. It is aimed at researchers and at teams in pharmaceuticals, medical devices, policy, consumer goods, industrials and software.
Built for
- Researchers
- Teams in pharmaceuticals, medical devices, policy, consumer goods, industrials and software
Key features
- Research agent that gathers evidence across scientific databases, journals, public data and uploaded documents
- Semantic search over academic papers and clinical trials
- Customizable research reports based on a systematic-review-inspired process
- Automated screening and data extraction for systematic reviews
- Routines to keep research up to date (Pro and above)
- Sentence-level citations for AI-generated claims
- Export to RIS, CSV, BIB, PDF and DOCX (Plus and above)
- Extract and interpret data from figures in research papers (Scale and above)
Pros and cons
Pros
- Semantic search covers academic papers and clinical trials.
- Research agent gathers evidence across scientific databases, journals, public data and uploaded documents.
- AI-generated claims include sentence-level citations.
- Offers automated screening and data extraction for systematic reviews.
- Has a free Basic plan with limited usage, and paid plans at USD 11 (Plus), USD 39 (Pro) and USD 89 (Scale) per user per month billed annually.
- Provides an API and a plugin or MCP option for integration.
Cons
- The free Basic plan has limited usage for the Research Agent and Research Reports.
- Routines to keep research up to date are available only on Pro and above.
- Extracting and interpreting data from figures in papers is available only on Scale and above.
- Enterprise pricing is not published and requires contacting sales.
Where Elicit is listed
Elicit is listed under AI tools for academic paper research in Research AI tools.
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