Elicit

What Elicit does

Elicit is an AI research assistant built around the workflow of a literature review. You start with a research question, and Elicit searches a corpus of more than 125 million academic papers using semantic matching rather than exact keywords. It returns the most relevant studies, generates a short summary of the collective findings, and lets you pull details from each paper into a structured table.

That table is the core of the tool. You can add custom columns for interventions, outcomes, sample sizes, or study design, and Elicit fills them in by reading each paper, linking every extracted value back to its source. Screening and filtering tools help you narrow hundreds of candidates down to the studies that actually matter.

Who it is for

Elicit suits researchers, graduate students, and evidence analysts who run systematic reviews or meta-analyses and want to cut the manual grind. Within the research category it leans further toward structured data extraction than conversational answering, making it a strong fit for rigorous, comparative work. Free credits let you trial the workflow, and paid plans from around $12 per month add capacity for larger projects. Because automated extraction can miss nuance, the results are best treated as a well-organized first draft that you verify before citing.