Elicit vs EvidenceGrid AI

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.

EvidenceGrid AI is a web platform for research teams conducting systematic literature reviews. It automates paper screening, data extraction, and conflict resolution. Searches run across PubMed, OpenAlex, arXiv, Europe PMC, and CORE at the same time. AI pre-screens papers against review criteria and flags borderline cases for human review, while kappa scores are calculated during screening. Reviewers can upload PDFs or fetch open-access versions, then annotate them in the built-in reader. Teams define custom extraction fields; AI finds values in full text for approval or editing. Decisions are timestamped and attributed, and exports include approval audit trails. Evidence grids export to Excel, CSV, or structured JSON with PRISMA flow counts. Co-reviewers can receive role-based access and shared annotations. The workflow guide says it aligns with PRISMA 2020 and Cochrane standards. The Free plan costs nothing, includes 10 papers and 3 AI extractions, and requires no credit card.