79
Stack Score
Best for
Academics, clinical researchers, and policy analysts running literature reviews who need traceable, citation-linked AI synthesis.
At a glance
- Pricing
- freemiumfrom $10/mo
- Setup time
- 5 minutes
- Learning curve
- medium
- Last verified
- 5/19/2026
What we love
- ✓Saves PhDs weeks on literature reviews
- ✓Citations always linked back to source PDFs
- ✓Extraction columns flexible enough for most fields
Where it falls short
- −Credits run out fast on heavy review projects
- −Coverage thinner in non-medical fields
- −Free tier severely limited compared to early versions
Pricing
✓ Pricing verified Jun 21, 20264 tiers
Basic
$0
limited credits
- ✓Search
- ✓Limited extractions
- ✓No PDF upload
Plus
$12
per month, billed annually
- ✓10K credits
- ✓PDF uploads
- ✓More columns
Pro
$49
per month, billed annually
- ✓Unlimited extractions
- ✓Full systematic review
- ✓Priority
Team
Custom
contact sales
- ✓Shared workspace
- ✓SSO
- ✓Admin controls
Why we picked it
If you write reports, Elicit's data-extraction tables save hours.
Overview
Search papers, extract data into tables, run literature reviews semi-automatically. Built for grad students and analysts.
Key features
- ●Search 125M+ academic papers with semantic queries
- ●Auto-extract methods, outcomes, and sample sizes
- ●Systematic review workflows with full audit trail
- ●Summarize across multiple papers in a table
- ●Citation graph navigation for finding related work
- ●Notebook-style workspace for ongoing reviews
Best use cases
Systematic literature reviews
Researchers build PRISMA-compliant reviews in days instead of months.
Grant writing
Quickly map the landscape of prior work for an NIH or NSF proposal.
Clinical evidence synthesis
Healthcare consultants pull outcome data across dozens of trials in one table.
Integrations
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