elicit capabilities

Semantic search across over 138 million academic papers aggregated from Semantic Scholar, PubMed, and OpenAlex. Finds relevant research even when exact keywords are absent, returning up to 1,000 papers per query with relevance scoring.

Fully automated research overviews generated from a natural-language research question. Elicit searches papers, screens them, extracts data, and synthesizes findings into a structured report with sentence-level citations. Reports cover up to 200 papers as of February 2026.

Users define custom columns—each with a name and natural-language extraction instructions—to pull specific data points from paper full text or tables. Supports open-ended, yes/no/maybe, and multiple-choice column types.

A step-by-step workflow covering search, title-and-abstract screening, full-text screening, and data extraction for systematic literature reviews. Supports dual review, PRISMA 2020 guidelines with exclusion reasons, per-criterion scores, and supporting quotes for auditability.

A single-page workspace that unifies search, summaries, and systematic review. Users run multiple queries on one page, combine papers across queries, chat with selected papers, and create flexible paragraph summaries.

A REST API (in preview) that exposes Elicit's core search and synthesis capabilities for integration into external tools and scripts. Supports semantic paper search, clinical trials search, automated report generation, and systematic review pipelines.

Saved natural-language research questions that automatically surface new papers as they are published. Each alert assigns relevance scores to new papers and optionally sends email notifications.

Every AI-generated claim—in summaries, data extractions, Reports, and Research Agent outputs—is backed by an exact sentence or figure quote from the underlying paper. This is applied uniformly across all surfaces rather than being an opt-in toggle.

Elicit offers four plan tiers with increasing quotas for data extractions, reports, alerts, and API access. A free Basic tier exists with one-time starter credits; paid tiers unlock monthly refreshed quotas and advanced workflows.