Consensus
AI Research & Knowledge
Free Plan Available
AI academic search engine that finds and summarizes peer-reviewed research with citations and literature-review reports.
Best for: Students, clinicians and researchers checking what studies say
Elicit
AI Research & Knowledge
Free Plan Available
AI research assistant for searching papers, extracting data and running systematic reviews with sentence-level citations.
Last reviewed 11/1/2026
Overview
Elicit helps researchers locate relevant academic papers and clinical trials, pull structured data from them, and assemble cited reports. It is built for academics, pharma and life-science teams, and evidence analysts who run literature or systematic reviews and need traceable sources.
Best For
Researchers and analysts doing literature and systematic reviews
Key Features
- Semantic search across 138M papers and 545K clinical trials
- Systematic review workflow with screening and data extraction
- Research reports with sentence-level citations
- Routines that track new research over time
- Library for storing and reusing sources
- API and MCP access on Pro and Enterprise
Pricing
$11/user/month, billed as $132 annually (Plus) Official pricing
Free plan: Available
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Free Basic plan with unlimited search and summaries
- Claims linked to sentence-level citations
- Discounted academic pricing for academics and nonprofits
Cons
- Free plan has limited research agent and report usage
- Listed prices assume annual billing
- Higher tiers are costly for individual users
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