Elicitelicit.com ↗
What it does
academic literature search and synthesis across 138M+ papers, paper Q&A, structured research reports
Strong fit
evidence-grounded questions that live in academic literature (the research-with-sources end of the decision-research archetype)
Poor fit
general market/business research, the corpus is scholarly papers, not the commercial web; budget-first users needing more than the free tier ($49/mo jump)
Limitations
free "limited usage" caps are unpublished; annual-only billing on paid tiers as displayed
Privacy & data handling
Elicit states uploaded PDFs stay private to your account, holds SOC 2 Type II, and does not train on enterprise data; its policy doesn't address training on individual-plan data explicitly.
Verified facts
GA, free Basic signup; web app
Pro $49/user/mo billed as $588/yr; Scale $169/user/mo billed as $2,028/yr; Enterprise custom
Basic $0: unlimited search/summaries/paper chat; limited Research Agent and Reports usage (caps unpublished)
SOC 2 Type II; "We explicitly do not train on Enterprise user data" with third-party agreements; uploaded PDFs encrypted and private to the account; individual-plan training not addressed
138M+ paper corpus; Zotero import; source visibility on free tier
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