Elicit
Elicit is an AI-powered evidence research tool for academic researchers, supporting input of research questions, retrieval of academic papers, and generation of structured research reports with citations.
Who it is for: Academic researchers, researchers in pharmaceuticals, medical devices and technology, policy and government, consumer goods, industry, and software and technology, as well as researchers needing to conduct systematic reviews
Core capabilities
- Research Agent: Collect evidence from scientific databases, academic journals, public data sources, and user-uploaded documents.
- Semantic Paper and Clinical Trial Search: Search over 138 million academic papers and 545,000 clinical trials, with support for semantic search.
- Research Reports: Generate research briefs based on a process inspired by systematic reviews, allowing users to customize included papers and information.
- Systematic Literature Review: Support automation of paper screening and data extraction in systematic reviews; search and report generation are only partially supported.
- Library and Alerts: Library is used to store and organize research sources, while Alerts track new research.
Pricing
Basic is free but has limited usage of Research Agent and Research Reports; Plus is $11 per user monthly and $132 annually; Pro is $39 per user monthly and $468 annually; Scale is $89 per user monthly and $1068 annually; Enterprise offers custom pricing.
Updated 2026-08-18