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Elicit vs MyReport

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors. Elicit starts at $49, MyReport at $6.99. Only Elicit has a free tier. Both ship a public API.

ElicitLiterature review workflow that extracts data into tablesMyReportGenerates cited reports from a title and your own documents

Side by side

FactElicitMyReport
CategoryAcademic Search & Literature ReviewDeep Research Agents
Pricing modelFreemiumPaid
Starts at$49 month$6.99 month
Public APIYesYes
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb, API
CompanyElicitAiAlaba
Launched2021—
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

Elicit

Elicit is the only one of these tools that treats a literature review as a structured extraction job rather than a chat, which is exactly right for the work. The price assumes you are billing someone else for the hours it saves.

Pros

  • Column-per-field extraction into a table is the correct shape for review work and rare elsewhere
  • Free tier is unusually generous: unlimited search, summaries and full-text chat
  • Every claim links back to the paper it came from
  • API access is included from the first paid tier rather than sold separately

Cons

  • The $49 to $169 jump is steep and Scale is priced for institutions, not labs
  • Free tier's limits on the Research Agent and Reports are not quantified anywhere on the pricing page
  • Extraction accuracy still needs spot-checking against the source PDF
  • Coverage is paper-centric, so grey literature and preprint-heavy fields are thinner

MyReport

A cheap, narrow report writer from a small Madrid team, priced per report rather than per seat, which suits people who need a handful of long documents a month. Anyone doing serious literature work should use a research-native tool instead.

Pros

  • Credit packs valid six months mean you can buy without a subscription
  • Word limits are stated per tier rather than left vague
  • API and Zapier access exist on the Business tier, unusual at this price

Cons

  • Very small vendor with little public track record; longevity is a real risk
  • Free allowance is a one-month trial, not a standing free tier
  • Citation quality depends on generic web search rather than a curated corpus

Which one fits

Choose Elicit if you need

  • Systematic reviews and evidence synthesis where every included paper needs the same fields pulled
  • Researchers screening hundreds of abstracts against defined inclusion criteria
  • Pharma, policy and academic teams that need an auditable trail back to sources

Choose MyReport if you need

  • Consultants or students who need a formatted, referenced draft to edit down
  • Occasional market or background reports where per-report pricing beats a subscription
  • Non-English work, since the interface covers six languages

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