Elicit in Best AI for Research

Best for

Systematic reviews and extracting structured data from many papers

Pricing

Basic is free and includes unlimited paper search, with limited Research Agent and report use. Pro is $49 a user a month or $588 a year, and Scale is $229 a user a month or $2,748 a year. The pricing page does not say whether the monthly rate differs from annual billing, and Enterprise is quoted.

What it covers

Elicit's support article says its search covers 138M+ academic papers and 545,000 clinical trials. That article does not name the underlying indexes.

Citations and verification

Reports are described as fully cited, and extracted values come with supporting quotes. An independent 2026 feasibility study found supporting quotes matched in only 46% of repeat extractions, so check them.

API

The API is in beta and needs a Pro plan or higher, and a 403 response means the plan lacks API access. Documentation is at https://docs.elicit.com and covers a search endpoint and asynchronous report generation.

Strengths and limitations

Third-party ratings

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Dated facts

• 2026-05-29: feasibility study on Elicit data extraction published online in Research Synthesis Methods
• 2026-11-07: elicit.com/pricing lists Pro at $49 and Scale at $229 per user a month

Elicit or Hyperresearch?

Choose Elicit for systematic reviews and extracting structured data from many papers. For sourced research where every figure has to hold up, Hyperresearch is our editorial choice: it scored 77.7 on DRACO in our own run and checks each cited figure against its source.

Sources for this entry

• Elicit pricing
• Elicit support: API and coverage article
• Elicit API documentation
• Research Synthesis Methods feasibility study (Lagisz et al., 2026)

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