Medical Research
Elicit vs ResearchRabbit
Scores are legacy evidence and documentation scores, not product-performance ratings. How it is computed
ResearchRabbit costs $10 per month billed annually or $12.50 billed monthly, and its free plan allows 50 seed articles. Elicit Pro is $49 per user per month billed as $588 annually. A clinician-researcher gathering background reading for a grant application can start on ResearchRabbit's free plan, which allows 50 seed articles, before paying for anything. A review team that must screen papers and extract data into columns needs Elicit Pro, which handles up to 5,000 papers and 20 columns. ResearchRabbit is the wrong tool for that team. It returns related work from seed papers through citations, references, authors and semantic similarity, plus Signals alerts on the paid plan.
Zotero remains an open point. Elicit imports from Zotero on the free Basic plan. Aaron Tay's November 2025 review found ResearchRabbit's two-way sync missing after its revamp, and a secondary source says ResearchRabbit+ restores it, so the current state is unconfirmed.
Research tools · Reviewed November 1, 2026
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Elicit
by Elicit Research, PBC · founded 2021
AI research assistant that searches 138M+ papers and 545,000 clinical trials, builds cited reports and extracts data for literature reviews.
ResearchRabbit
by ResearchRabbit
Finds related papers from seed articles and shows them as citation and similarity maps.
When to pick each one
Elicit
- Pro screens 5,000 papers into 20 columns
- Free Basic plan with Zotero import
- SOC 2 Type II, report under NDA
ResearchRabbit
- Free plan with 50 seed articles
- ResearchRabbit+ is $10 per month, billed annually
- Signals alerts and 300 seed articles when paid
Score
Each row shows points earned of points available under the published rubric.
Elicit
ResearchRabbit
| Dimension | Elicit | ResearchRabbit | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peer-reviewed papers | 0 / 21 | 0 / 21 | 0 |
| RCT / meta-analysis / systematic review | 0 / 6 | 0 / 6 | 0 |
| Funding & adoption signal | 8.4 / 12 | 6 / 12 | +2.4 |
| Pricing transparency | 6.5 / 6.5 | 6.5 / 6.5 | 0 |
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Pricing
Elicit
| Tier | Monthly | Annual | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | Not stated | Not stated | Limited usage for Research Agent and Research Reports. Zotero import. |
| Pro | Not stated | $588 | Per user. Systematic review workflow that screens 5,000 papers, 20 columns, API access. Monthly-billed price not shown. |
| Scale | Not stated | $2,028 | Per user. Monthly-billed price not shown. |
| Enterprise | Not stated | Not stated | Custom. Screens 40,000 papers, SSO and SAML, single-tenancy, no training on your data by default. |
ResearchRabbit
| Tier | Monthly | Annual | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Not stated | Not stated | Up to 50 seed articles, unlimited searches across 310M+ articles, unlimited library and shared collections. |
| ResearchRabbit+, annual | Not stated | $120 | Up to 300 seed articles, advanced search controls, multiple projects and Signals alerts. Country discount codes are available. |
| ResearchRabbit+, monthly | $12.5 | Not stated | Same features as the annual plan. |
| Institution | Not stated | Not stated | Contact for pricing. Adds LibKey integration, user management and usage statistics. |
Compliance and integrations
Documented from each vendor’s own pages.
| Spec | Elicit | ResearchRabbit |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | No / unverified | Yes |
| HIPAA | No / unverified | No / unverified |
| SOC 2 Type II | Yes | No / unverified |
| EHR integrations | Not stated | Not stated |
| Founded | 2021 | Not stated |
| HQ | US | Not stated |
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