Anara vs Elicit (2026)

Anara

by Anara Labs

Elicit

by Elicit Research, PBC

Pros

• ✓Every answer and every extraction-table cell links to the exact passage it came from, and paper search covers more than 300 million papers.
• ✓Connects the tools research teams already use, including Zotero, Mendeley, Google Drive, OneDrive, Benchling and Synapse, plus PubMed and ClinicalTrials.gov.
• ✓Works both ways over MCP: it calls custom MCP servers on Pro and above, and other AI assistants can work in a workspace through Anara's own MCP server.

Limitations

• –Single sign-on with SAML and SCIM, admin controls and a HIPAA business associate agreement are only on the quote-only Enterprise plan.
• –Deep Search and Model Council start at Max, $80 a month per seat billed yearly, and science-database and app connectors need Plus or above.
• –Anara's SOC 2 Type II report and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certificate were both still in progress in November 2026, and HIPAA support is offered on request.

Pros

• ✓Covers research from search to a cited output: paper search, Research Reports, a Systematic Review workflow that supports PRISMA 2020, and a Research Agent that produces reports, tables, figures and slides.
• ✓Searches over 138 million papers and 545,000 clinical trials, and the Research Agent adds patents, regulatory and biology databases, web sources and uploaded documents.
• ✓Publishes an MCP server and an API on Pro and above, so search, reports and systematic reviews can run inside Claude, ChatGPT and other MCP clients.
• ✓Publishes a SOC 2 Type 2 report on its trust center, and its customer page shows 41 organizations, including NASA, NIH, Harvard, Takeda and Unilever.

Limitations

• –Usage is a single monthly pool that does not roll over, and larger Research Agent sessions and reviews, figure extraction and premium PDF parsing use more of it.
• –The API and MCP server start on Pro at $49 per user per month billed annually, and SSO, SAML and single-tenant deployment are on the quote-based Enterprise plan.
• –Enterprise states no training on customer data by default, and the terms for the Basic, Plus, Pro and Scale plans carry no equivalent training statement.
• –Designed for use in English, and Elicit states that quality in other languages varies widely and that non-English use draws down usage faster.