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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
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| Category | AI Research | AI Research |
| Description | Elicit is an AI research assistant built specifically for academic literature review, with a database of 125 million+ papers. It finds relevant papers, extracts key claims and methods, and synthesizes findings across multiple studies. Built for researchers who need reliable, citation-backed information rather than general-purpose AI responses. | NotebookLM is Google's AI research assistant that works exclusively with documents you upload, rather than the open web. It generates summaries, answers questions grounded in your sources, and creates Audio Overviews — podcast-style conversations between two AI hosts discussing your material. Designed for students, researchers, and professionals who need to make sense of large document collections. |
| Database of 125 million+ academic papers with semantic search | Supported | Not supported |
| Automated data extraction: sample sizes, methods, effect sizes, conclusions | Supported | Not supported |
| Side-by-side paper comparison table with custom extraction columns | Supported | Not supported |
| Literature review export to PDF, CSV, or BibTeX | Supported | Not supported |
| Claim extraction: highlights key findings per paper with direct quotes | Supported | Not supported |
| Related paper suggestions based on citation networks | Supported | Not supported |
| Structured summaries with transparent reasoning chains | Supported | Not supported |
| Team collaboration with shared workspaces and saved searches | Supported | Not supported |
| Source-grounded Q&A — answers cite specific passages from your documents | Not supported | Supported |
| Audio Overviews: AI-generated podcast-style summaries (English) | Not supported | Supported |
| Support for PDFs, Google Docs, Google Slides, YouTube URLs, and web pages | Not supported | Supported |
| Up to 50 sources per notebook, approximately 500K words per source | Not supported | Supported |
| Study Guide generation: key concepts, glossary, practice questions | Not supported | Supported |
| Timeline and FAQ auto-generation from source material | Not supported | Supported |
| Inline citation links back to original source passages | Not supported | Supported |
| Google AI Pro tier adds expanded limits and priority access | Not supported | Supported |
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