Elicit

Elicit is an AI research assistant purpose-built for academic literature review. It searches and summarises peer-reviewed papers, extracts key findings and methodology from PDFs, and organises evidence across studies -- tasks that previously required hours of manual database searching and reading. Core use case is systematic literature review: researchers define a question, Elicit finds relevant papers across PubMed, Semantic Scholar, and other academic databases, then extracts structured data from each paper for comparison. Free plan includes 5,000 credits/month (roughly 10-15 paper extractions). Plus at $10/month adds 12,000 credits and unlimited PDF uploads. Team plans start at $42/month. Enterprise is custom. Most power users hit the free credit limit within days. Elicit is purpose-built for academic research -- it is not a general web research tool and does not replace tools like Perplexity for current events or business intelligence research.