Elicit Review (2026): Plus at $11, and a Separate Industry Price

Elicit is a literature-review assistant. It searches papers, summarizes them, and builds tables that pull a data point out of many papers. The price depends on a toggle. The yearly cards that include Plus are $11, $39, and $89 per user per month, billed annually. The Industry cards on the same page drop Plus and list Pro at $49 and Scale at $229, also billed annually.

Those figures were read from Elicit’s pricing page on October 24, 2026. The page has an Industry control and a monthly/yearly control. The yearly cards print a save percentage against monthly billing. The text we extracted did not include a separate monthly dollar amount. We did not audit extraction accuracy. Elicit says its team tests accuracy. That is their claim, not a score from us.

For a cited answer without the table, use Consensus and the Consensus review. For the open web, use the Perplexity review.

Two grids

Plan	Yearly price, non-Industry cards	Yearly price, Industry cards	What the card is for
Basic	Free	Free	Unlimited search across 138 million papers, summaries, chat with papers, Zotero import. Limited agent and reports
Plus	$11/user/month, billed as $132/year	Not on the Industry cards we read	Exports, 5 table columns, clinical-trials search, standard agent use
Pro	$39/user/month, billed as $468/year	$49/user/month, billed as $588/year	Systematic review screening of 5,000 papers, 20 columns, reports from up to 135 sources, API
Scale	$89/user/month, billed as $1,068/year	$229/user/month, billed as $2,748/year	Higher usage, figure extraction, live collaboration, 30 columns, an admin panel
Enterprise	Custom	Custom	40,000-paper screening, SSO, no training on your data by default

The non-Industry yearly cards print save rates of about 42% (Plus), 43% (Pro), and 40% (Scale). Set the Industry toggle to the audience that will pay before you compare Elicit with a $12 Consensus seat. A company that quotes the $11 price and then checks out on Industry Pro has not been quoted $11.

flowchart TD
  q1{"Are you buying as an individual researcher or as Industry?"}
  q1 -->|Individual, casual| free["Basic, free"]
  q1 -->|Individual, deeper search| plus["Plus at 11 USD annual"]
  q1 -->|You screen thousands of papers| pro["Pro. Confirm the toggle"]
  q1 -->|You only need cited answers| con["Consensus Pro at 12 USD annual"]

What the table is for

Elicit’s distinctive published feature is the extraction table: rows are papers, columns are the fields you name, and the cells point back at the source text. Plus adds five columns at a time. Pro adds twenty, a systematic-review workflow that can screen 5,000 papers, and custom extraction from PDFs you upload. Scale adds figure extraction and live collaboration. If you will not build a table, you are paying for a search box. Consensus Free already searches papers.

Basic is not a crippled demo. Unlimited search, summaries, and chat with full text are on the free card. The limit is the agent and the reports. Use Basic until a review needs columns or a screening workflow. Then match the column count to the plan, and match the audience toggle to the invoice.

Enterprise is the plan that says Elicit does not train on your data by default, and that lists SSO. Do not assume Plus has that sentence. A pharma team should read the Enterprise card and the Industry price, not the $11 card.

A PDF you already trust, with no literature search, is a different product. Gemini Notebook stays on your uploads. The workflow is how to study with Gemini Notebook.

Who should pay

Stay on Basic for search and chat with papers. Pay for Plus at $132 a year if you export and you need clinical trials plus a short table. Pay for Pro when the work is a systematic review. Read the Industry price before a company card is charged. Skip Elicit for a one-off cited paragraph. That is Consensus.

FAQ

Is Elicit free?

Yes. Basic includes unlimited paper search, summaries, and chat with papers. Agent and report use is limited.

How much is Elicit Plus?

$11 per user per month, billed as $132 a year, on the non-Industry yearly card. Plus did not appear on the Industry cards we read.

Why are there two Pro prices?

The page has an Industry toggle. Pro is $39 per user per month billed annually on one set of cards and $49 on the Industry cards. Scale jumps from $89 to $229 on that same split. Look at the toggle before you compare quotes.

Last verified

October 24, 2026, from elicit.com/pricing. Monthly rates were not printed as their own dollar amounts in the extract. Recheck the toggle at checkout.

Sources: Elicit pricing, Elicit.

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