Elicit

Elicit is an AI research assistant that helps you quickly search, summarize and extract information from more than 125 million academic papers. More than 2 million researchers in academia and industry use Elicit to automate tedious research work, synthesize results and spot trends across multiple papers.

With Elicit, you can:

• Search research papers: Type a research question and get a list of relevant papers with one-sentence summaries.
• Pull information: Pull information out of papers into neatly formatted tables.
• Find concepts and themes: Discover the effects of a drug, the data sets used, and other information distilled from multiple papers.
• Upload and analyze your own papers: Upload your own PDFs for analysis.
• Talk to papers: Pose questions and engage in a conversation with the full text of papers.

Elicit is most useful for empirical domains, where experiments and results are concrete, like biomedicine and machine learning. It doesn't yet answer questions or reveal information not published in academic papers, but it can find facts and help with research.

Researchers can benefit from Elicit in several ways:

• Conduct literature reviews faster: Find relevant papers and pull out information.
• Find papers you wouldn't have found otherwise: Expand your research with Elicit's broader coverage.
• Automate systematic reviews and meta-analyses: Save time by automating data extraction.
• Stay up to date: Discover new domains and stay current with the latest research.

Pricing is designed to accommodate individuals and organizations:

• Basic: Free, with 5,000 one-time credits, good for occasional use. You can search for papers, pull out information and find concepts, but you can't purchase more credits or export results.
• Plus: $10 per month (annual billing) or $12 per month (monthly billing), with 12,000 credits per month, export options, high accuracy mode and priority customer support.
• Enterprise and Institutions: Custom pricing for groups, companies and educational institutions, with flexible credit allocation and invoiced billing.

Elicit uses language models, which can be prone to errors. The service hopes to improve accuracy without raising costs by training models for specific tasks, searching academic papers and letting you verify answers.

Elicit is a work in progress, and the company is actively incorporating user feedback to make the service more accurate and accessible for researchers. If you want to speed up your research and get more out of academic papers, Elicit could be worth a look.

Published on June 14, 2024