Elicit vs LitMap

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.

LitMap is a web tool for analyzing papers and organizing a literature review. Users upload PDFs, and the service extracts claims, methods, and findings. AI extraction can also identify definitions and limitations, with editable results. Papers are clustered by semantic similarity on a visual canvas that users can rearrange. LitMap highlights disagreements with side-by-side quotations and lets users mark them resolved or unresolved. Its gap finder identifies missing populations, methods, or timeframes. Users can arrange papers and themes into an outline, then export organized notes with citations as Markdown, CSV, or JSON. LitMap does not write literature-review prose or paraphrase sources. The site says it works offline, keeps data in the browser, and requires no account. It is labeled beta. The Free plan costs nothing and allows five projects with 50 papers per project; Student costs €5 a month, and Academic costs €25 a month.