Elicit

Elicit is a web-based, chat-style AI research assistant for researchers in academia and industry who need faster scientific literature review, evidence synthesis, and systematic reviews.

Key capabilities include:

• Semantic search across 138 million academic papers and 545,000 clinical trials, reducing reliance on exact keywords (sources include Semantic Scholar, PubMed, and clinicaltrials.gov).
• Summaries and takeaways tailored to a research question, plus chat with papers and abstract summarization to speed up triage.
• Structured data extraction for quantitative and qualitative fields, including extraction from tables, with outputs organized into tables, matrices, and notebooks for tagging and reuse.
• Systematic review support, including title/abstract screening and report workflows that synthesize evidence across multiple sources.

Pricing: Freemium (free tier with usage limits; paid plans available).

Notable for its combination of scale (large paper and trial coverage), transparent citations supporting AI-generated claims, and multi-step workflows that go beyond a simple chat interface. The product is developed by Ought, a nonprofit ML research lab, and is reported to be used by over 2 million researchers.