Elicit
Elicit
An AI research assistant that finds papers and organizes them into tables
◐Free plan ✕No Korean
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Key specs
| Price | ◐Free plan |
|---|---|
| Free limits | Limited free credits, basic search and summary available |
| Paid price | Pro $49/month per user ($588/year) · Scale $169/month per user |
| Student / edu discount | No |
| Korean | ✕NoneUI and search results are in English. Almost no Korean papers are indexed. |
| Login | Required |
| Platforms | Web |
| File input | |
| Download output | Export paper tables to CSV |
| Commercial use | ConditionalCustom pricing for team and enterprise plans |
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Who it's for
- Graduate students and researchers who want to find relevant papers all at once using research questions like "the effect of X on Y" and compare summaries, sample sizes, and results in a table. It significantly saves time spent opening dozens of papers one by one.
- People who want to quickly start a literature review. It is well-suited for deciding which papers to read first.
- People who want to upload PDF papers they found and extract/organize the same data fields. You can compare research methods, sample sizes, and findings in a single table.
Drawbacks
- It focuses primarily on English papers, so Korean papers and domestic journals are rarely retrieved. For Korean research, you need to use domestic databases like RISS or DBpia alongside it.
- Free credits are limited, so a paid plan is required for serious, extensive literature reviews.
- Summaries may differ from the source text, so you must always check the original paper before citing.
Getting started
- Sign up on the official website.
- Type your research question as a full English sentence in the search bar. Example: "Does screen time affect sleep in teenagers?"
- Review the summary, sample size, and outcomes columns in the results table, and add custom columns (e.g., research methodology, country) as needed.
- Select the papers you want and export the table to a CSV file.
- Upload your own PDFs to extract data into the same columns. Always open the original paper to verify statements before citing.
Similar tools
- Perplexity ◐Free plan Perplexity searches the entire web, while Elicit searches only academic paper databases.
- Gemini Notebook ◐Free plan NotebookLM answers questions from the papers you upload, while Elicit finds the papers for you to read.
- Humata ◐Free plan Humata is a tool for querying your own PDF folder, so it cannot search for academic papers.
See also
- Comparison: Top 3 AI Academic Search Tools Compared — Consensus, Elicit, Liner
- Comparison: Best 4 AI Tools for Reading Research Papers — Search, Summarize, and Cite
- Use: AI search & research · Summaries, documents & PDF
- Prompts: literature-review
- Concepts: rag , hallucination
Official link
https://elicit.com/ (opens in a new tab)
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