Elicit vs Systematicly

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.

Systematicly is a web-based research platform for systematic reviews, primary research, ethics applications and research proposals. It can analyze a topic using PICO, PECO or SPIDER frameworks and produce Boolean searches for databases including PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, ERIC and PsycINFO. Reviewers can screen titles and abstracts and upload PDFs for structured field extraction. Analysis options include 1,033 statistical functions, plain-English analysis, meta-analysis, plots, sensitivity analysis and GRADE assessment. The platform lists eight review types, plus publishing tools such as AI-assisted manuscripts and proposals, PRISMA diagrams, journal recommendations and reviewer response letters. It retrieves PDFs automatically from PMC, Unpaywall and EuropePMC, and supports ClinicalTrials.gov imports and several reference formats. The free Explorer plan is limited to three active personal drafts, one lifetime feasibility preview and three lifetime Evidence Answers. Paid one-time options include a single Evidence Answer for $19, paid once and literature review packages from $149, paid once. The security page says user data is not used to train AI models; Anthropic’s commercial API may retain inputs and outputs for up to 30 days for trust and safety monitoring.