Elicit is an AI research platform built for scientific work. Its Research Agent gathers evidence across scientific databases, academic journals, public data sources, and internally uploaded documents, then produces fully cited reports, tables, figures, calculations, and slides. Search covers over 138 million academic papers and 545,000 clinical trials with semantic retrieval, while Research Reports follow a process inspired by systematic reviews and can be customized by paper and information coverage. Elicit also automates screening and data extraction for systematic literature reviews, and a Library stores and organizes sources for reuse. It is used by researchers in pharma, academia, medtech, policy, consumer goods, and industrials. A free Basic plan offers limited usage, with paid Pro, Scale, and Enterprise tiers available.
How to use Elicit
1
Sign up and choose a plan
Create an Elicit account and select a plan; the Basic tier is free with limited Research Agent and Research Reports usage.
2
Ask a research question
Enter a research question and let Elicit search academic papers and clinical trials using semantic search.
3
Generate a cited report
Use Research Reports to produce a structured brief with sentence-level citations, customizing which papers and information are covered.
4
Run a systematic review
Use the Systematic Literature Review workflow to automate screening and data extraction, with search and report generation partially supported.
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Organize sources in the Library
Save and organize sources you find so they can be reused in future projects.
Elicit Features
Research Agent gathers evidence across scientific databases, journals, public data sources, and uploaded documents
Search over 138 million academic papers and 545,000 clinical trials with semantic search
Research Reports generate cited briefs inspired by systematic review processes
Systematic literature review automation for screening and data extraction
Library for storing and organizing sources for reuse
Quickly understanding what science already knows about a question
Planning and conducting comprehensive literature reviews
Automating screening and data extraction for systematic reviews
Assessing how a condition or concept has been defined in prior literature
Supporting evidence-based policy and product decisions
Keeping research up to date with new findings
Elicit FAQs
Elicit searches over 138 million academic papers and 545,000 clinical trials, and the Research Agent can also gather evidence from public data sources and internally uploaded documents.
Elicit is built for researchers and scientists across pharma, academia, medtech, policy, consumer goods, and industrials who need rigorous, evidence-based research.
Elicit offers a free Basic plan with limited Research Agent and Research Reports usage. Paid Pro, Scale, and Enterprise plans are also available.
Pro costs $49 per user per month when billed annually at $588. Monthly billing is also offered.
The Pro plan includes a dedicated Systematic Review Workflow that can screen 5,000 papers.
Yes. Elicit supports all AI-generated claims with sentence-level citations from the underlying sources.
Yes, the Basic plan includes import from Zotero.
API access is included in the Pro plan, and the Enterprise plan includes unlimited API access.