What is Elicit?
Elicit is a web-based AI research platform for finding, evaluating, and synthesizing scientific evidence. It supports tasks ranging from quick paper searches to systematic literature reviews and detailed research reports. The platform is designed around structured research workflows rather than a chat interface alone, providing interactive tables, source management, and cited outputs.
Elicit searches academic papers and clinical trials using semantic search, so researchers can discover relevant work without relying only on exact keywords. It can gather evidence from scientific databases, journals, public sources, and uploaded documents. AI-generated claims are linked to sentence-level citations from the underlying material, helping researchers inspect the evidence behind an answer.
Key Features
- Semantic paper search: Searches more than 138 million academic papers and 545,000 clinical trials based on meaning as well as keywords.
- Research Agent: Collects evidence and creates cited reports, tables, figures, calculations, slides, and bioinformatics analyses for complex research questions.
- Systematic review workflow: Supports paper screening and data extraction while providing partial assistance with search and report preparation.
- Custom research reports: Produces structured briefs whose included papers and extracted information can be adjusted to fit the research question.
- Evidence library and routines: Organizes saved sources for later projects and can monitor topics for newly available research.
- Transparent analysis: Connects generated claims to sentence-level citations and presents results through tables and multi-step workflows.
Use Cases
- Conducting literature searches for academic, pharmaceutical, medical technology, policy, or industrial research.
- Screening studies and extracting structured data for systematic literature reviews.
- Preparing cited research briefs, evidence tables, figures, and presentations.
- Tracking new evidence on an ongoing research topic through scheduled routines.
- Building shared evidence collections for research teams.
Pricing
Elicit uses a freemium model. The Basic plan is free and includes limited use of the Research Agent and Research Reports, plus unlimited paper search, summaries, and chat with papers that have full-text access. Pro costs $49 per user per month when billed annually at $588 and adds systematic review tools, Routines, custom extractions, output templates, and API access. Scale costs $229 per user per month when billed annually at $2,748 and adds higher usage, collaboration, figure interpretation, and administrative controls. Enterprise pricing is custom and includes expanded scale, security controls, custom data sources, and customer support.
Who Is It For?
Elicit is intended for researchers, scientists, systematic review teams, academic institutions, pharmaceutical and medical technology organizations, policy groups, and other teams that need traceable scientific evidence for research or decisions.
