Elicit review
7.8/10★★★★★AI research agent for scientific papers, built for systematic reviews and extraction
- Best for
- Researchers running systematic reviews or extracting data across many studies
- Price
- Freemium · from $49/month
Free: Unlimited search, paper summaries and chat with papers; limited Research Agent and reports - Platforms
- Web, API
- Made by
- Elicit
What it is
Elicit searches more than 138 million academic papers and 545,000 clinical trials, summarises them and extracts details into tables. Its research agent produces fully cited reports, and paid plans add a dedicated systematic-review workflow that screens thousands of papers.
What the AI does
- Semantic search over 138M+ papers and clinical trials
- Research Agent that writes cited reports
- Data extraction into tables
- Systematic review screening (up to 5,000 papers on Pro)
- Chat with full-text papers
Pros and cons
- Purpose-built systematic-review workflow
- Strong data extraction from papers into tables
- Sentence-level citations to real papers
- Free plan includes unlimited search and summaries
- Pro at $49/month is expensive for students
- Real systematic-review features need a paid plan
- Little help with writing up the research
How it scores
The deepest toolset for evidence synthesis and extraction, held back by a steep price for individuals.
Feature checklist · 7 of 9
- Searches a large database of academic papers (yes)
- Answers from your own uploaded PDFs and documents (yes)
- Inline citations linked to the exact source (yes)
- Multi-step deep research reports (yes)
- Extracts details from papers into tables (yes)
- Shows whether studies support or contradict a claim (no)
- Discovers related papers through citations or recommendations (no)
- Exports citations or connects to Zotero (yes)
- Useful free plan (yes)
Alternatives
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- Perplexity 8.4/10Fast cited overviews of a topic across the web and academic sources
- Consensus 8.3/10Students, clinicians and anyone checking what the research says about a specific question
- ChatGPT deep research 8.0/10Professionals who want a thorough written briefing on a complex topic