Elicit
AI research assistant to automate research workflows, find papers, summarize, and extract data.
Introduction
AI research assistant to automate research workflows, find papers, summarize, and extract data.
- Added on
- Nov 1, 2026
- Website
- elicit.com
- Pricing model
- Freemium
Product information
What is Elicit?
Elicit is an AI research assistant that automates steps of research workflows such as finding papers, summarizing takeaways and extracting information, plus tasks like brainstorming and text classification.
How to use Elicit?
Type a research question in natural language. Elicit searches, summarizes and extracts data from papers, and you can also chat with them or upload your own PDFs.
Core features of Elicit
- AI-enabled systematic reviews
- Research reports
- Upload your own PDFs
- Quick summaries
- Source quotes
- Question answering
Use cases of Elicit
- 1Speeding up literature reviews
- 2Automating systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- 3Getting oriented in a new field
- 4Extracting data for systematic reviews
Frequently asked questions about Elicit
What is Elicit not a good fit for?+
It cannot surface information that is not covered in academic papers, and it tends to be weaker for plain facts or for theoretical, non-empirical fields.
What data does Elicit search?+
About 125 million academic papers from the Semantic Scholar corpus, across all disciplines. It uses full text when available and the abstract otherwise.
How accurate is Elicit?+
Elicit suggests assuming roughly 90% of what you see is accurate, so you should check the work closely; it lists the sources behind generated information to help.
Which category is Elicit in?+
Elicit is listed under Research & Data, AI Research Assistant.
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