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Elicit
✓ verifiedFreemium

Well-adopted AI research assistant for finding papers, summarizing, and extracting data at scale.

2.1M visits/mo
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researcher.life
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Subscription bundling Editage's academic AI tools: writing assistant, journal finder, literature search, and illustration maker.

723K visits/mo
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Rayyan
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AI-assisted systematic literature review platform for research teams handling screening, deduplication, extraction, and PRISMA reporting.

1.1M visits/mo
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PTE APEUni
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AI-scored practice platform for PTE Academic and PTE Core exam prep, with question banks, predictions and study tools.

2.1M visits/mo
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Up Learn
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AI-personalized online A Level and GCSE courses for UK students, backed by an A*/A grade guarantee or money back.

1.6M visits/mo
Pricing
Basic: Free
Plus: $10 per month, billed annually
Pro: $42 per month, billed annually
Team: $65 per user, per month billed annually
Enterprise: Custom

No public pricing

Free: $0 (3 active reviews, 2 free reviewers)
Essential: $8.33/month billed quarterly
Advanced: $13.33/month billed quarterly (9 active reviews, 10 free reviewers)

No public pricing

GCSE Combined Science: from £49.99/month
Up Master (2028 access): £694.98 one-time for a single subject
Up Core (2028 access): £549.98 one-time for a single subject
Up Master monthly: £99.99/month pay-as-you-go
Up Core monthly: £74.99/month pay-as-you-go

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Core features
  • AI-enabled systematic reviews
  • Research reports
  • Upload your own PDFs
  • Quick summaries
  • Source quotes
  • Question answering
  • AI academic writing assistant with grammar and phrasing suggestions
  • Journal recommender matched to a manuscript's abstract
  • Scientific illustration library with drag-and-drop editor
  • Literature discovery across 300M+ academic papers
  • Plagiarism checking and multilingual translation support
  • Research skill courses included with subscription
  • Reference import, organization, and deduplication across large libraries
  • AI-powered relevance predictions to prioritize screening
  • Collaborative title/abstract and full-text screening workflows
  • Structured data extraction and PICO framework support
  • Risk of bias assessment tools
  • Auto-generated PRISMA flow diagrams and audit trails
  • Mobile app for screening on the go
  • AI scoring for speaking and writing
  • Full PTE question-type practice
  • Weekly exam prediction files
  • Vocabulary books and shadowing tools
  • AI study plan and score analysis
  • Web and mobile app sync
  • Interactive video lessons mapped to specific exam boards
  • AI diagnostic algorithm for personalized revision
  • Detailed progress tracking across the curriculum
  • Guided exam-question walkthroughs
  • 24/7 online tutor support via chat
  • A*/A grade guarantee with money-back policy
  • 3-day free trial with no payment details required
Use cases
  • Speeding up literature reviews
  • Automating systematic reviews and meta-analyses
  • Learning about new domains
  • Data extraction in rigorous systematic literature reviews
  • Non-native English researchers polishing manuscripts before submission
  • Finding the right journal for a paper's subject area
  • Building scientific figures without a graphic designer
  • Keeping up with new literature in a research field
  • Running systematic literature reviews as a research team
  • Speeding up deduplication and abstract screening for large reference sets
  • Producing PRISMA-compliant documentation for publication
  • Coordinating divided screening workloads across reviewers
  • Preparing for PTE Academic/Core exams
  • Practicing speaking and writing with AI feedback
  • Studying likely exam questions
  • Tracking prep progress
  • A Level students preparing for AQA, Edexcel, OCR, or Cambridge International exams
  • GCSE students studying Combined Science
  • Students wanting AI-personalized revision instead of generic textbooks
  • Schools looking to boost student attainment with a supplementary platform
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