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Elicit
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TaglineAI research assistant for academic literature.Spreadsheets with AI + live integrations baked in.Sales-focused meeting AI with CRM integration.The fastest AI inference in the world. Crazy low latency.
CategoryResearchDataMeetingsDev Platform
PricingFree + $12-$42/moFree + $19-$89/user/moFree + $10-$19/user/moFree tier + pay-as-you-go API
Best forGrad students, researchers, anyone doing literature reviews.Ops teams, marketers, anyone building dashboards from multiple sources.Sales teams, customer success, anyone running many discovery calls.Developers who need sub-100ms LLM responses.
Strengths
  • Searches 125M+ papers
  • Extracts + synthesizes findings across papers
  • Systematic review workflow
  • Pull live data from Stripe, Slack, Google Analytics, etc.
  • AI functions inside cells
  • Modern UX
  • Good CRM integrations (Salesforce, HubSpot)
  • Talk-time + sentiment analytics
  • Call scoring
  • 500+ tokens/sec on Llama/Mixtral — feels instant
  • Custom LPU hardware
  • Great free tier
Weaknesses
  • Academic-only
  • Can hallucinate citations — verify everything
  • Not a full Excel replacement for heavy users
  • Integrations best on paid tiers
  • Bot-joins (intrusive)
  • Gets expensive at team scale
  • Open-weight models only (no Claude/GPT)
  • Less flexibility on custom configs
Kai's verdictS-tier for academic research. Nothing else comes close for systematic reviews.A-tier. The most interesting spreadsheet in years. Great for ops dashboards.A-tier for sales teams. B-tier for solo users.S-tier for speed. When latency is the product, start here.
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