Elicit vs Silvi

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.

Silvi is a web tool for organizing scientific literature into structured evidence. Its review workflow covers collecting studies, screening them, extracting data and analyzing results, including systematic reviews, meta-analyses and network meta-analyses. Reviewers can include or exclude studies individually or in bulk, with AI screening suggestions available. Data extraction can use PDF text highlights, which Silvi stores alongside the extracted information, or AI; users can check and correct AI results. Extracted data can be organized in tables, plotted and exported. Teams can assign tasks, require multiple reviewers and blind decisions. Silvi lists imports from PubMed, OpenAlex, Web of Science, ERIC, Zotero, Mendeley and EndNote. Its Web of Science RIS workflow allows up to 1,000 records per export. Open-access papers can be retrieved automatically; paywalled papers must be obtained through a university library. Plans include a free option and paid options from €19/mo.