Intelectra vs Elicit.
Intelectra grounds every claim in a verbatim quote from the source paper. Elicit summarises.
Feature by feature.
Where a value is uncertain or not surfaced on Elicit's public pages, we leave the cell as “—” rather than guess. Numbered cells link to the public sources in the footnotes.
| Feature | Intelectra | Elicit |
|---|---|---|
| Source corpus | PubMed + your local corpus | Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, PubMed [1] |
| Number of papers indexed | PubMed (~37M) + user-uploaded | 125M–138M (varies by source) [2] |
| Full-text grounding | Verbatim quote, page-anchored | Summary-based, with paper chat [3] |
| Citation verification | Every claim hashed against PDF region | — |
| Free tier | Early-access (private beta) | Basic: unlimited search, 2 reports/month [5] |
| Entry paid tier | — | Plus, $12 / user / month [6] |
| API availability | MCP integrations (Enterprise) | REST API, Pro plan or above [7] |
| Self-hosted / on-premise | Yes (Closed mode, air-gappable) | No (cloud SaaS only) |
| Export formats | Vancouver, APA, BibTeX, RIS | BibTeX, RIS, CSV, XLSX [9] |
| Languages supported | — | — |
| Local-first / data residency | Documents + embeddings live on your machine | Cloud SaaS |
| PDF figure & table extraction | Docling: text, figures, tables, page coords | Tables extractable from uploaded PDFs [12] |
| Citation chaining (cites / cited-by) | Two-hop graph, MedCPT-reranked | — |
| Biomedical-specific reranker (MedCPT) | Yes, MedCPT-Article cross-encoder | — |
- elicit.com/solutions/search; support.elicit.com/en/articles/553025
- Elicit pricing page + docs.elicit.com cite 125M+; product pages cite 138M+
- Elicit's Chat with Papers + Summarize features generate summaries
- elicit.com/pricing; support.elicit.com/en/articles/8670209
- elicit.com/pricing
- docs.elicit.com
- support.elicit.com/en/articles/1153857
- Elicit's data-extraction feature operates on tables in uploads
Common questions.
Does Elicit verify quotes against the source PDF the way Intelectra does?
Elicit's Chat with Papers and Summarize features generate AI summaries of the underlying paper rather than enforcing a verbatim-quote provenance contract. Intelectra hashes every quote against a Docling-extracted page-anchored region in the source PDF, and rejects mismatches before synthesis.
Which corpus is bigger, Elicit's or Intelectra's?
Elicit searches across Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, and PubMed for a combined index reported as 125–138 million papers. Intelectra's focus is biomedical: PubMed (~37 million records) plus a user-owned local corpus of full-text PDFs. The right answer depends on the discipline: biomedical work concentrates inside PubMed.
Can I run Elicit on my own infrastructure?
No. Elicit is a cloud SaaS with no documented self-hosted or on-premise deployment option. Intelectra ships a Closed-mode deployment that runs LLM, agent orchestration, retrieval, paper database, and embeddings on your infrastructure, and is air-gappable for regulated workflows.
How does pricing compare?
Elicit's Basic tier is free; the Plus tier starts at $12 per user per month. Intelectra's tier shape is locked (Researcher, Lab, Enterprise) but final numbers are not set yet. Early users get a permanent discount and the option to lock in their rate before public pricing finalises.
Can both tools export to BibTeX and RIS?
Yes. Elicit exports to BibTeX, RIS, CSV, and XLSX. Intelectra's Bibliography Generator exports to Vancouver, APA, BibTeX, and RIS, with deduplication by DOI and PMID.
Which tool is better for systematic reviews?
Elicit positions Automated Research Reports as its systematic-review surface; the Pro plan ships 12 reports per month. Intelectra ships citation chaining with PRISMA logging, a Cross-Validator that decomposes claims into checkable sub-claims, and a Bibliography Generator with gap reports, all built around the verbatim-quote contract.
Last updated: 2026-05-11