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OpenEvidence vs Elicit

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OpenEvidence

OpenEvidence

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Elicit

Elicit

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Pricing
FreemiumOpenEvidence is free for all verified US healthcare professionals. NPI verification is required to access the platform. The free tier includes full medical AI search, DeepConsult, Visits, Voice Mode, clinical calculators, and the AI-Integrated Doctor Dialer. Enterprise pricing applies to health system deployments with EHR integration (Epic), multi-subspecialist AI agents, custom knowledge bases, priority compute, advanced visualization, and API licensing for clinical decision support integration into third-party platforms. Contact OpenEvidence through openevidence.com for enterprise and health system pricing. Note: The platform withdrew from the EU and UK in April 2026 and is currently available to US healthcare professionals only.
FreemiumElicit offers a genuinely functional free Basic plan with unlimited paper search, unlimited abstract summaries, and unlimited full-text chat with papers — no credit card required. Research Agent and Research Reports are available with limited usage on the free tier. Plus at $12/month (individual) expands Research Agent runs, Research Report generation, and adds figure extraction from PDFs — designed for independent researchers running regular systematic reviews. Teams at $14/user/month adds collaborative workspaces, shared project libraries, and higher usage limits for research groups and labs. An Enterprise tier is available for institutions requiring SSO, audit logs, higher volume limits, and dedicated support. Note: Elicit significantly lowered its top-tier pricing in April 2026 (from $780 to $79/user/month for the highest plan). Verify current rates at elicit.com/pricing.
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Summary
AI clinical decision support free for verified physicians — 757K+ doctors, $12B valuation, peer-reviewed answers
AI research assistant for systematic literature reviews — screen papers, extract data, and synthesize evidence at scale
OpenEvidence

OpenEvidence Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Free for all verified US physicians — no cost barrier for individual clinician adoption
  • 757,000+ verified physicians, 40%+ of US doctors use it daily — most widely adopted clinical AI in the US
  • $12B valuation (January 2026), $250M Series D — Thrive Capital and DST Global backed
  • Answers grounded exclusively in peer-reviewed literature — zero hallucination risk from non-medical sources
  • 20M+ clinical consultations per month — proven real-world clinical usage at unprecedented scale
  • Epic EHR integration live at Sutter Health — first public health system embedding of clinical AI in EHR
  • DeepConsult AI agent handles multi-step clinical reasoning — goes beyond basic search to structured clinical analysis

Cons

  • Withdrew from EU and UK in April 2026 — US-only availability limits international use
  • Free tier requires verified NPI number — not accessible to non-US clinicians or students without credentials
  • Impact on actual clinical decision-making scored only 1.95/4 in one study — physicians still cautious
  • DeepConsult and enterprise features require institutional pricing
  • Full chart-aware clinical support (reading patient records proactively) not yet available
  • Only 20% of physicians fully support AI in clinical decision-making — adoption barriers remain
Elicit

Elicit Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Purpose-built for systematic reviews — automates the most time-consuming steps (screening, extraction, synthesis)
  • Structured data extraction with source traceability — every extracted data point links back to its source sentence
  • 138M+ paper database with semantic matching — finds relevant papers based on meaning, not just keywords
  • Free tier is genuinely useful — unlimited search, summaries, and full-text chat with no credit card required
  • Research Agent autonomously searches and synthesizes literature from a single question
  • Zotero integration lets researchers bring existing reference libraries into Elicit workflows
  • Trusted by 2M+ researchers including at top academic and medical institutions globally

Cons

  • Research Agent and Research Reports usage limited on free plan — heavy systematic review users need Plus or Teams
  • Database of 138M papers is strong but not as large as Consensus AI (220M) or Google Scholar
  • Less suited for discovering very recent preprints or non-indexed grey literature
  • No built-in citation manager — relies on Zotero export for reference management
  • Teams and Enterprise pricing is per-user and can add up for large research groups

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