Elicit vs Sana 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.

Sana AI's Sana Agents is a knowledge assistant for organizations, designed to provide access to company information and automate routine tasks. Users can create customizable agents with chosen knowledge sources, tasks, and permissions. The service supports meeting recordings in Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet, and its integration collection includes Google Drive, Gmail, Outlook, Salesforce, Slack, Notion, Jira, and Confluence. Private integrations mirror each user's access in the connected system; access to shared integrations is managed in Sana. Sana says it encrypts data in transit and at rest, does not use customer data to train underlying language models, and is ISO 27001:2022 certified, SOC Type I and Type II certified, and GDPR compliant. Enterprise organizations can have their own single-tenant deployment. The Free tier costs nothing and permits up to five workspace members, 10 meetings and 20 chat messages per user each month, with unlimited agents and tasks. Team costs $30 a month per user and supports up to 50 members and 10,000 documents per integration. The iOS app supports the assistant, knowledge-base search, meeting management, and workspace information on iPhone and iPad.