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Elicit

Elicit is an AI research assistant for searching, summarising and extracting structured data from academic papers at scale.

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PricingFreemium
Free planYes
Skill levelIntermediate
Top roleAnalyst
DepartmentData
Primary useAcademic research

Overview

Elicit is an AI research assistant built around academic literature. You ask a research question and it surfaces relevant papers, extracts key findings from each one, and lets you build a structured review across large sets of results without reading every paper in full.

It is used by researchers, analysts, students and people doing due diligence in scientific domains. A free tier covers a limited volume of paper analyses per month; paid plans extend access for heavier or ongoing research work.

Elicit significantly reduces the time needed to scan a literature landscape, but it is not a replacement for careful reading of the papers that matter most. Treat its extractions as a structured starting point and read primary sources before relying on any specific finding.

Good for

  • Surfaces and summarises relevant papers from a question prompt
  • Structured extraction across large sets of results
  • Used by over two million researchers in academia and industry
  • Free tier to try before committing

Watch out for

  • Free tier limits monthly paper analysis volume
  • Not a substitute for careful reading of key papers
  • Coverage and extraction quality vary by domain
  • Outputs need verification against the original sources