Litmaps vs Elicit

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Discover important scientific papers faster and transform your literature review with dynamic visualizations.

AI research assistant for scientific papers

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Description

Litmaps is a literature discovery and management assistant designed to accelerate the literature review process. By utilizing dynamic visualizations, custom filters, and automated updates, Litmaps helps students, researchers, and professional teams find key papers, spot research gaps, and collaborate efficiently.

Elicit finds, summarizes, and extracts data from millions of research papers.

Key features

• Sync with your Zotero account
• Dynamic literature visualization maps
• Custom search filters
• Automatic alerts on relevant research
• Classroom management license
• Collaboration tools for research teams
• Search and discovery algorithms

• Section-level QA
• Zotero sync

Pros

• Accelerates the literature review process to find papers faster.
• Provides custom filters to easily search and find articles.
• Supports syncing directly with your Zotero account.
• Uses dynamic visualizations to map and understand scientific research.
• Sends automatic alerts on relevant new research in your field.
• Fosters collaboration by letting research teams work together on maps.
• Offers specialized classroom licenses to easily manage students and class projects.
• Provides educational discounts for students and institutions.
• Helps researchers spot research gaps fast.

• Semantic search across papers
• Automated data extraction
• Citation graph exploration
• Paper summarization
• Systematic-review workflows
• Generous free tier
• Export to CSV and Zotero
• Trusted by academic researchers

Cons

• Specific pricing plans and exact costs are not directly disclosed on the pricing page.
• No dedicated mobile applications (iOS or Android) are listed on the website.
• No public API or developer documentation is referenced.
• No detailed security or compliance certifications (such as SOC2 or ISO) are specified.
• The exact terms and limitations of the free tier, if any, are not detailed in the provided pages.
• The platform requires cookie acceptance for the assumed best user experience.

• Free tier is credit-limited
• Primarily English papers
• Occasional extraction errors
• Weaker for humanities
• Requires paper access rights
• Limited fine-tuning
• Slow on very large corpora
• Team plans get expensive

Pricing plans

• FreeUSD0
  • • Basic Search
  • • Up to 20 inputs
• ProUSD10/month
  • • Weekly / configurable
  • • Advanced Search
  • • Unlimited inputs
  • • Unlimited articles and Unlimited Litmaps
• TeamUSD10/month
  • • Team-wide (unlimited)
  • • Daily / Configurable
  • • Basic + Advanced
  • • Unlimited inputs, articles, and Litmaps
• Litmaps Enterprise—
  • • Litmaps Enterprise

• BasicUSD0
  • • Unlimited search across more than 138 million papers
  • • Unlimited summaries across as many papers as you want
  • • Unlimited chat with papers with full-text access
  • • Unlimited search across more than 500 thousand clinical trials
• PlusUSD11/month
  • • Standard usage for Research Agent, Research Reports, and Systematic Literature Reviews
• ProUSD39/month
  • • Custom extractions from uploaded papers
  • • Standard usage for Research Agent, Research Reports, and Systematic Literature Reviews
• ScaleUSD89/month
  • • 5x usage for Research Agent, Research Reports, and Systematic Literature Reviews
  • • Dedicated Systematic Review Workflow that can screen 5,000 papers
  • • Reports extract from up to 135 data sources
  • • Subscribe to 10 personalized research Alerts
• Enterprise—
  • • Custom usage for Research Agent, Research Reports, and Systematic Literature Reviews
  • • Greater scale: screen 40,000 papers and extract 40 columns
  • • Enterprise-level security and controls, including SSO & SAML, 2FA, user analytics, domain verification, and custom deployments
  • • Dedicated customer success team providing training, onboarding, and success planning
• Team—
  • • 9x usage for Research Agent, Research Reports, and Systematic Literature Reviews
  • • Extract and interpret from figures in research papers
  • • Live editing and real-time collaboration with your team
  • • Admin panel with usage tracking and seat management

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