# Elicit — AI Compare Ninja

> Search, screen, and extract papers for systematic reviews.

## Overview
- **Category:** Productivity (Science & research)
- **Status:** Active · checked - Active Basic, Pro, Scale, and Enterprise tiers. The earlier separate Plus tier (Academic view) no longer exists.
- **Paid from:** 49 $ per user per month, 588 $ annually / Per user/month, billed annually (Pro)
- **Free access:** Free plan (Unlimited literature search, summaries, and chat with available full texts. Limited Research Agent and report usage.)
- **Website:** https://elicit.com/
- **Canonical URL:** https://www.aicompare.ninja/en/tool/elicit

## What it does
- Search across 138M+ scientific papers
- Enterprise: Systematic-review workflow: screen up to 40,000 papers and extract 40 columns
- Paper chat and full-text data extraction
- Scale: Reports from up to 200 data sources
- Scale: Figure interpretation and live collaboration
- SSO/SAML, 2FA and single-tenant option for enterprise teams

## In brief
Search, screen, and extract papers for systematic reviews.

The current public page lists Basic, Pro, Scale, and Enterprise. According to the API documentation, API access requires at least Pro and draws from the same credit pool as the platform. Elicit's API terms allow using input data only to provide, maintain, and support the service, and prohibit model training without a separate opt-in.


## Limits
The current public page lists Basic, Pro, Scale, and Enterprise. According to the API documentation, API access requires at least Pro and draws from the same credit pool as the platform. Elicit's API terms allow using input data only to provide, maintain, and support the service, and prohibit model training without a separate opt-in.

## Pricing tiers
| Tier | Price | Period | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Basic | free | Monthly | Unlimited search across more than 138 million papers; Unlimited summaries and chat with available full text; Limited Research Agent and Research Reports |
| Pro | 49 $ per user per month, 588 $ annually | Per user/month, billed annually | 5x AI-workflow usage; API access and a systematic-review workflow |
| Scale | 169 $ per user per month, 2,028 $ annually | Per user/month, billed annually | 9x AI-workflow usage; Live collaboration and an admin panel |
| Enterprise | contact sales | Custom | Custom usage and security options |

## Sources
All details regarding plans, limits, and features are based on official vendor documentation and the primary sources verified below.

- https://elicit.com/pricing
- https://elicit.com/operations/api-terms

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*Source: AI Compare Ninja (2026) - https://www.aicompare.ninja/en/tool/elicit*