Elicit

Research paper search that extracts data into a table with the columns you define

Vendor	Elicit
Category	Research and search
Website	elicit.com
Free plan	Yes
Paid plans	Paid plans from $12/mo. Free plan available
Updated	2026-09-22

Elicit searches a database of scholarly publications and returns a table: paper, year, sample, method, main result, in the columns you set. It runs systematic reviews, summarizes papers and shows quotes from the text. It helps analysts, HR researchers and anyone who needs evidence from primary sources in place of general claims. The database is in English.

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Free plan

A limited number of credits for search and data extraction, limited upload of your own PDFs

Paid plans

Plan	Price	What you get
Plus	$12/mo	With annual billing (14 with monthly billing): more credits, table export, PDF uploads
Pro	$49/mo	With annual billing: systematic reviews, large extractions, priority
Team	price on request	Per user, shared projects, check the vendor's site

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Pitfalls to watch at work

The model extracts data from papers and makes mistakes in numbers: open the paper at the cited page before quoting
Coverage of non-English publications is thin, so on questions of national law and accounting the service has little to say

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