Elicit vs Europe PMC

Elicit is an AI research assistant for researchers gathering and assessing evidence. Its Research Agent draws on scientific databases, academic journals, public data sources, uploaded documents, a corpus of 138 million academic papers, and the wider web. A session can use up to 20 uploaded resources, including PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, and JPG files. Elicit offers Research Agent sessions, Research Reports, and Systematic Reviews, and supports AI-generated claims with sentence-level citations to underlying sources. It can find up to 1,000 relevant papers and analyze up to 20,000 data points at once. Research Reports export as PDF or Word, tables as CSV or Excel, and references as RIS or BIB. Elicit runs on the web and provides an API, but API access requires Pro or above. Its MCP server connects to Claude Desktop, Claude Code, and other compatible clients using OAuth 2.0. Basic is free with limited usage for Research Agent and Research Reports; Plus costs $11 a month. Pro is $39 a month and Scale is $89 a month. Elicit states that it has achieved SOC 2 Type II compliance.

Europe PMC is a free resource for finding and reading life sciences literature from trusted sources. Its collection includes research articles, preprints, micropublications, books, reviews, protocols, and abstracts. Searches can cover abstracts and full text, with options to focus on cited articles, open peer reviews, clinical trials, preprints, or sections within articles. Publications link to supporting resources and data in more than 40 biological databases. ORCID-based author profiles show scholarly work, open access status, and citation rates over time. Europe PMC also applies text mining and machine learning to add biological terms and concepts to literature. Articles, Grants, and Annotations APIs provide programmatic access to publications, grant information, and text-mined annotations. Bulk downloads include open access articles and metadata for full-text articles; automated bulk downloading of other content is not permitted. The service integrates sources such as PubMed, PubMed Central, Agricola, and life science preprint servers, and links to legal free copies via Unpaywall when available. It is developed by EMBL-EBI with support from the Europe PMC Funders' Group and collaboration with the National Library of Medicine.