Elicit

Elicit is ranked #4 of 38 in AI literature review software on The Geeks Club. It runs on API, Web. There is a free plan. Paid plans start at $11/mo.

Elicit plans and pricing

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Basic Not published Limited usage for Research Agent and Research Reports · Unlimited search across more than 138 million papers · Unlimited summaries · Unlimited chat with papers with full-text access · View sources for answers · Import from Zotero elicit.com · 22 Sept 2026

Plus $11/mo Monthly price shown on the pricing page Export to RIS, CSV, BIB, PDF and DOCX · Add 5 columns to tables at a time · Unlimited search across more than 500 thousand clinical trials · Standard usage for Research Agent, Research Reports, and Systematic Literature R elicit.com · 22 Sept 2026

Plus $132/yr Billed as $132 annually Export to RIS, CSV, BIB, PDF and DOCX · Add 5 columns to tables at a time · Unlimited search across more than 500 thousand clinical trials · Standard usage for Research Agent, Research Reports, and Systematic Literature R elicit.com · 22 Sept 2026

Pro $39/mo Monthly price shown on the pricing page 5,000 papers screened · 135 data sources · 10 personalized research Alerts elicit.com · 22 Sept 2026

Pro $468/yr Billed as $468 annually 5,000 papers screened · 135 data sources · 10 personalized research Alerts elicit.com · 22 Sept 2026

Scale $89/mo Monthly price shown on the pricing page 200 data sources · 30 columns added to tables at a time elicit.com · 22 Sept 2026

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Elicit

Product purpose: Elicit is an AI research assistant that helps researchers become more evidence-based.
Research Agent: The Research Agent gathers evidence from scientific databases, academic journals, public data sources, and internally uploaded documents.
Paper corpus: Research Agent sessions have access to Elicit's full corpus of 138 million academic papers and the larger web.
Uploaded resources: Each Research Agent session can use up to 20 uploaded resources, including PDFs, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, and JPG files.
Research workflows: Elicit offers Research Agent sessions, Research Reports, and Systematic Reviews.
Citations: Elicit supports AI-generated claims with sentence-level citations from underlying sources.
Scale: Elicit can find up to 1,000 relevant papers and analyze up to 20,000 data points at once.
Integrations: Elicit can connect through its MCP server to Claude Desktop, Claude Code, and other MCP-compatible clients using OAuth 2.0.
API availability: Elicit API access requires a Pro plan or above and supports searching papers and clinical trials and running research workflows.
Exports: Research Reports can be exported as PDF or Word files, tables as CSV or Excel, and references as RIS or BIB.
Security: Elicit states that it achieved SOC 2 Type II compliance.
Enterprise data: Elicit says it does not train on Enterprise user data and supports SAML 2.0 SSO and MFA.
Enterprise support: The Enterprise plan includes a dedicated customer success team providing training, onboarding, and success planning.
Headquarters: Covina, California, USA
Price from: $11/mo

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Where it ranks on The Geeks Club

Best AI Literature Review Software in 2026#4 of 38
Best Literature Review Software in 2026#2 of 28
Best AI Research Assistants in 2026#11 of 28
Best AI Search Engines in 2026#8 of 27

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