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

2.1M visits/mo
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Connected Papers
✓ verifiedFreemium

Widely used visual tool for exploring related academic papers.

873K visits/mo
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Infranodus
✓ verifiedFreemium

Knowledge-graph text analysis tool that surfaces topics and content gaps for research, SEO and market analysis.

71K 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
Free: USD 0
Academic: USD 3 /month*
Business: USD 10 /month*
Academic Group: 3 USD / seat / month*
Business Group: 10 USD / seat / month*
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Core features
  • AI-enabled systematic reviews
  • Research reports
  • Upload your own PDFs
  • Quick summaries
  • Source quotes
  • Question answering
  • Visual graph generation of related academic papers
  • Discovery of prior and derivative works
  • Identification of important and relevant papers
  • Exploration of research field dynamics
  • Text network / knowledge graph visualization
  • Topic modeling and content-gap detection
  • AI insight and question generation
  • GraphRAG and MCP server for LLMs
  • Many import sources (PDF, CSV, YouTube, Google, web)
  • Obsidian plugin and browser extension
Use cases
  • Speeding up literature reviews
  • Automating systematic reviews and meta-analyses
  • Learning about new domains
  • Data extraction in rigorous systematic literature reviews
  • Getting a visual overview of a new academic field
  • Ensuring no key papers are missed in a field with a large volume of new publications
  • Creating a bibliography for a thesis
  • Discovering relevant prior and derivative works
  • Research and idea generation
  • SEO content-gap analysis
  • Qualitative and market research
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