“Collectively, they provided incorrect answers to more than 60 percent of queries.”
Columbia Journalism Review, Mar 6, 2025
The facts
Elicit at a glance.
From Elicit's own pages, read Oct 20, 2026. Prices can change at any time; check the maker's page before you pay.
- Made by
- ElicitBased in United States
- What it is for
- Deep research and AI searchAnswers from the web, with the sources linked.
- Free plan
- YesBasic (free): limited Research Agent and Research Reports; unlimited search across more than 138 million papers.
- Runs on
- web
- Latest update
- Routines and more flexible research with the Agent, Sep 30, 2026
- Website
- elicit.com
Plans and prices
| Plan | A month | What it includes |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | Free | "For casual exploration" |
| Plus | $11 | "For deeper research"; billed annually at $132 per year. |
| Pro | $49 | "For systematic reviews"; billed annually. The page showed two different Pro prices ($39 and $49 per month, billed annually); we list the higher one. Recheck. |
| Scale | $169 | "For collaboration"; billed annually. The page showed $89 and $169 per month in two listings. Recheck. |
| Enterprise | Not in US$ | Custom. |
Elicit pricing, Oct 20, 2026 · company-reported
Read the small print
What its terms say.
Copied word for word from the maker's terms, with any lawsuits or complaints and their status when we last checked.
“PDFs you upload are encrypted and remain private to your account only, until you choose to delete them.”
Our note: Neither Elicit's privacy policy (last updated 2023-09-12) nor the uploads help page says whether user content is used to train AI models. Prices shown are annual-billing rates; no month-to-month prices appeared.
Independent evidence
What tests of tools like this have found.
“Almost half of all AI answers had at least one significant issue.”
EBU, Oct 21, 2025
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