What is Elicit
Elicit is an AI research assistant for searching scholarly literature, summarising papers, chatting with full text, producing research reports, screening studies, extracting structured evidence, and supporting systematic reviews.
Core offerings
- Search across scholarly papers and clinical trials with source-linked answers.
- Research Agent, Research Reports, paper chat, alerts, and systematic-review workflows.
- Structured extraction tables, exports, uploaded-paper analysis, and API access by tier.
- Team collaboration, administration, enterprise controls, custom data, and larger review limits.
Pricing
As of July 24, 2026, Elicit lists Basic at US$0. On yearly billing, Plus is displayed at US$11 per user per month billed as US$132 annually, Pro at US$39 per user per month billed as US$480 annually, and Scale at US$89 per user per month billed as US$1,068 annually. Elicit’s month-to-month view lists Pro at US$49 and Scale at US$169; Enterprise is custom-priced.
Basic includes limited Research Agent and Research Reports use, unlimited search across more than 138 million papers, unlimited summaries, unlimited chat with available full-text papers, source viewing, and Zotero import. Plus adds export to RIS, CSV, BIB, PDF and DOCX, five table columns at a time, clinical-trial search, and standard usage for Research Agent, reports, and systematic reviews.
Pro includes five-times usage on annual billing, a systematic-review workflow that can screen 5,000 papers, 20 table columns, reports drawing from up to 135 sources, 10 personalised alerts, uploaded-paper extraction, explanations, multiple templates, and API access. Scale provides nine-times annual usage, figure extraction, live team editing, reports using up to 200 sources, 30 columns, and an administrative usage and seat panel.
Enterprise supports custom usage, unlimited alerts, no training on customer data by default, screening up to 40,000 papers, 40 extraction columns, PRISMA-grade workflows, SSO and SAML, 2FA, analytics, domain verification, custom deployments, customer success, custom sources and templates, and unlimited Search API access.
Model footprint
Elicit is sold as a research workflow rather than a selectable model catalogue. Its plan differences are expressed through research-agent usage, review scale, extraction capacity, collaboration, API access, and controls.
Why select Elicit
Elicit is a fit for researchers who need traceable literature search and evidence extraction rather than general-purpose chat. Pro is the key systematic-review tier, while Scale and Enterprise add collaboration and materially larger workflows.
Official source: Elicit pricing.