Elicit is an AI research assistant designed specifically for academic and scientific research. It helps researchers find relevant papers, extract key information, and synthesize findings across large bodies of literature — tasks that traditionally take weeks of manual work. Elicit uses language models trained on scientific text to understand research questions and identify the most relevant evidence from over 125 million academic papers.
Key features include semantic paper search that understands research questions (not just keywords), automated extraction of key findings, methodologies, sample sizes, and results from papers, systematic review workflows that process hundreds of papers simultaneously, column-based data extraction customizable to any research question, paper summarization with key takeaways, citation management, and the ability to upload and analyze your own PDFs. Elicit excels at literature reviews, systematic reviews, and evidence synthesis.
Elicit offers a free plan with 10,000 tokens and basic search. The Plus plan costs $12/month for advanced extraction, more tokens, and higher upload limits. The Teams plan at $14/user/month adds collaboration and shared workspaces. Enterprise plans include API access, custom integrations, and priority support. Elicit is trusted by researchers at top universities and research institutions worldwide, saving an estimated 5+ hours per literature review compared to manual search and extraction methods.
