An AI research assistant that automates literature review workflows — searching over 138 million academic papers, extracting structured data into customizable tables, and generating systematic review reports with sentence-level citations traced to source documents.
Elicit provides genuine systematic review capabilities: automated screening of thousands of papers, customizable extraction columns, structured report generation with up to 135 data sources per report, and clinical trial search across 500K+ trials. The table-based extraction workflow mirrors established systematic review protocols (PRISMA-compatible), making it suitable for evidence synthesis at scale.
Automating the early stages of systematic literature reviews — screening large paper sets, extracting structured data points across studies, and generating evidence synthesis reports with traceable citations.
Free tier is limited to 2 automated reports per month with basic column extraction. Full systematic review features require Pro ($49/mo). Coverage skews toward English-language publications in STEM and health sciences. Humanities and non-English scholarship coverage is thinner.
Elicit collects account data and usage information for service improvement. Enterprise plan explicitly guarantees no training on user data. Standard plans have a Data Processing Addendum available upon request. The privacy policy is transparent and regularly updated. Founded originally as a nonprofit AI lab (Ought), now operating as a Public Benefit Corporation.
Elicit grounds every AI-generated claim with sentence-level citations from the underlying papers — not just document-level references. Users can trace any synthesized statement back to the exact passage in the source paper. The systematic review workflow processes papers through structured extraction rather than free-form generation, minimizing fabrication risk.
Free Basic tier with limited reports and columns. Plus plan for deeper research. Pro plan for systematic reviews with full extraction. Scale and Enterprise tiers available for teams and institutions.
✓ Institutional licensing available
Editorial independence: ScriptorLabs has no commercial relationship with Elicit. This review is independent and based solely on our academic evaluation framework.