A powerful knowledge base on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files
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What Elicit does
AI tool to search, summarize and extract data from over 125 million academic papers for literature review.
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- Free Basic tier has limited usage for Research Agent and Research Reports
- Systematic Literature Reviews at full usage require the $169/month Scale plan; Enterprise usage is custom quoted
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