Elicit

5.0(25 reviews)

AI-powered research assistant for literature reviews and analysis.

Free

Elicit Overview

What is Elicit?

Elicit is an AI research assistant that uses machine learning to help automate research workflows. It can find relevant papers without needing exact keyword matches and extract key information from them. Elicit can also summarize takeaways from the paper that are specific to the user’s question, and provide other research tasks such as brainstorming, summarization and text classification. This assists the user in finding answers to their questions using research, while also helping to streamline their research workflow. Help other people by letting them know if this AI was useful. Add your own prompts and outputs to help others understand how to use this AI.

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Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Automates research workflows
  • Doesn't need perfect keywords
  • Extracts key paper information
  • Tailored paper summaries
  • Assists in brainstorming
  • Summarizes texts
  • Classifies texts
  • Understands language models
  • Helps with literature reviews
  • Aids in answering research questions

Cons

  • Limited to academic research
  • No keyword matching customization
  • No user-specific summarization settings
  • No translation functionality
  • Cannot integrate with databases
  • Lacks collaborative features
  • No offline mode
  • Limited file format support
  • No specified security measures
  • Dependent on Internet connectivity

A Professional Framework to Evaluate Elicit

When considering Elicit for integration into your organizational workflow, we recommend deploying a structured score card across three critical operational pillars: Security & Compliance, Integration Friction, and long-term Price Scalability. Rather than looking only at basic feature lists, modern procurement teams must assess how a software platform behaves under high load and how well it fits into the team's data security guidelines.

1. Security and Database Compliance

Depending on your operating region and field, ensure that Elicit supports standard security layers such as SOC 2 Type II certifications, GDPR compliance, or HIPAA-compliant database encryption. If the tool connects directly to client database tables or handles user passwords, verify that they implement multi-factor authentication (MFA), single sign-on (SSO) integrations, and end-to-end data encryption in transit and at rest.

2. API Coverage and Custom Integrations

Siloed data is the primary cause of operational friction. Evaluate if Elicit has native connectors for your current project trackers, messaging hubs, and customer communication channels. For custom developer requirements, check if they provide a fully documented REST API with reasonable rate limits, comprehensive Webhooks support, and robust SDK packages in your language. A flexible API layer saves hundreds of hours of manual copy-paste overhead.

3. Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

SaaS pricing packages are often deceptively simple. When reviewing Elicit's billing structure, map out your team's projected expansion over the next 12 to 24 months. Determine how costs scale as your customer database increases or as you add team members. Factor in setup costs, mandatory support plan upgrades, API access fees, and storage overage rates to understand the true cost before committing to a contract.

By combining verified user reviews from our directory with internal workflow pilot tests, your procurement team can make an informed decision that drives productivity without creating capital waste.

Features of Elicit

  • Research Assistance
  • Automated Research
  • Data Analysis
  • Information Retrieval
  • Automated Data Collection
  • AI Research
  • Free + From $12/Mo

SaaS1to10 verified reviews for Elicit

Overall rating

5.0

Based on 25 reviews

5.01 days ago

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That looks really good

Sebastian Alonso Guerilla

5.02 weeks ago

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It's driving me a bit crazy that we can't save anything we create. I'm happy to pay for credits, but I wouldn't want to pay and see everything disappear - even if I have an account and am logged in. I think it's a fabulous idea but it still needs work.

Dr. Cris Wildermuth

5.02 weeks ago

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Think its a fab tool but why wont it allow you to save your workflows?

Azmat Yusaf

5.02 weeks ago

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I wish the summariser can be choosed

Glet Carafe Pvt Ltd

5.02 weeks ago

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It's not able to analyse large file pdf and pop out with wrong message

Squash

5.02 weeks ago

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it works for me

Zeedop

5.02 weeks ago

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A valuable resource. I think I will be using this site quite regularly.

Slavica Voss

5.02 weeks ago

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Nice interface, but no good at PDF answers, especially tables data.

hifive szu

5.02 weeks ago

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An amazing app, I love the share feature and the comment section summaries

Silvia Cho

5.02 weeks ago

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I tried using it but the website has too many bugs.

João Neiva

5.02 weeks ago

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I tried NovelGPT a template in @Agentgpt and it did an excellent job writing the first two episodes of my novel complete with character descriptions, setting,plot points and well I think you get the point. Great tool can't wait to see it out of beta.

Kelli Crose

5.02 weeks ago

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Undetectable.wtf is better bypasses everything maintaining thee integrity of the text.

LiteEagle

5.02 weeks ago

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O GPT faz uma análise melhor e mais personalizada.

Vinicius Vilela

5.02 weeks ago

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It seems to be working fine right now. Maybe try again and double check if you’re using the book’s original or most recognized title. That might make a difference.

Alexandru Bostina

5.02 weeks ago

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after playing around with it for a bit, i am now aware of how much i need this. i can already feel the hours of sleep coming back to me <3

Bru no no no

5.02 weeks ago

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Really amazing! Makes learning content and engaging with things so much easier!

Jamie McDonald

5.02 weeks ago

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As the service was in beta-testing stage, I created there a dozen of AI-generated courses for free. I wanted to use them. Those courses remained in my account as they started subscription tiers. But recently I have found out that they were deleted. The support didn't answer to my e-mail at all.

Oldfag TV

5.02 weeks ago

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Alternative for fast academic writing

Ivan Taslim

5.02 weeks ago

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I'm still testing the tool yet it looks very promising. I tested it with a 5.5k words Academic text that I had previously red. I tested the Key points feature, it does work!

Ivana González

5.02 weeks ago

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Amazing tool for my school assignments!

Katoteshi Myamo

5.02 weeks ago

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I’ve been using it for a month now and I have decided to keep it for a year. There definitely are some kinks they can still work out like file management, but it’s very good at it’s core function: it generally does a good job answering questions and most times identifies PDFs automatically and correctly. The browser plugin works great, and it’s very nice that @Papers allows you to add your university’s library API so you can automatically download PDFs that are accessible through your institution (sometimes it refuses to download some @Papers, so you just have to downlow it yourself and manually add it). The iPad and Android apps are serviceable. Every once in a while it will mess up the PDF identification, especially with @Papers from either very old sources or online-only journals. Things they must work on: * A much better system to annotate PDFs (the post-it type notes are cumbersome). * Introduce a notepad attached to each PDF or some way to easily link and save the AI’s output to the PDF. Currently, you have to add a little post it note and then paste the text there. * Keep the AI answers available after closing the documents. If you close the document by mistake or have several open and wish to close some, the ai conversation will be reset. * I REALLY wish that you could get citations and links to where the info was from extracted from PDFs. Currently, I have found Coral.ai does a much better job of showing you where the info came from and it even highlights it for you. Give it a try, their 30-day no credit card needed trial allowed me to truly test it, and now I’m a yearly subscriber looking forward for new additions and releases.

JB

5.02 weeks ago

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Not particularly useful and expensive at the same time. Don’t waste your time or money.

Yakir Levin

5.02 weeks ago

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Such an impressive platform for all of us who are looking for more efficient ways to do the investigation. @OpenRead has the potential to solve our problems.

Zhuohang Tong

5.02 weeks ago

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I've tried to find the exact articles via WoS, Google, or Scopus. Despite using a very advised and complicated search query, it was just a waste of time. Perplexity didn't help either. The Jenni AI, which may add useful links when generating text, finds nothing but trash. SciScape gave exactly what I needed from the first query! A couple of fresh relative articles with very exact topics!

Elijah

5.02 weeks ago

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easy to pick up and you get a few free file imports. it gives you results pretty fast, unfortunately i can't find a way to get back to these, they're locked behind the paid service.

Ron Jayson

Pricing

Starting Price

Free plan available

Free tier available with optional paid upgrades.

Where can Elicit be deployed?

  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based

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