Elicit vs Hebbia (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Elicit if

• Fits if you're running a systematic review and want the screening and data extraction automated
• Works for students and casual readers, since free search, summaries and paper chat are unlimited

Look elsewhere if

• Pricey if you're outside a university, with Pro at $49 a user a month billed yearly and $75 monthly
• Skip it if you want real-time collaboration or extraction from figures on a budget, as both need Scale at $229 a user a month billed yearly, $375 monthly
• Tight if your workload is lumpy, because monthly usage doesn't roll over and extra is billed in $100 steps
• Watch out: the pricing page opens on industry rates, and the $11 academic Plus plan shows only once you switch
• Too light for phone or desktop use, with a web app and Chrome extension only, and an integration list that stops at Zotero

Pick Hebbia if

• Fits if you work in banking, private equity or credit and review big document sets
• Works for law firms pulling terms out of many contracts at once

Look elsewhere if

• Not for you if you want a published price, as only a demo request is offered
• Skip it if you are an individual or small team, since it is aimed at institutional finance and legal work
• Watch out: connectors such as FactSet or PitchBook depend on a licence you pay for separately
• Not for you if you want a free try, because none is offered

Elicit

• The pricing page defaults to industry rates; the $11 Plus plan appears only when Academic is selected.
• The systematic review workflow, Routines and API access start at the Pro plan.
• Monthly usage does not roll over. Extra usage on Pro and Scale is billed in $100 increments, up to a limit you set.
• Real-time collaboration, extraction from figures and the admin panel need Scale or Enterprise.

Hebbia

• No prices are published; the site only offers a demo request.
• It is built for institutional finance and legal work, not for individuals or small teams without those data sources.
• Many data connectors, such as FactSet or PitchBook, depend on the firm having its own license for that data.

Elicit

Research Agent

Gathers evidence from scientific databases, journals, public data sources and uploaded documents, then produces cited reports, tables, figures and slides.

Paper and clinical trial search

Semantic search over more than 138 million papers from Semantic Scholar, PubMed and OpenAlex, plus about 545,000 clinical trials, so a query does not depend on exact keywords.

Research reports

Generates research briefs through a process modeled on systematic reviews. You can change which papers and what information a report covers.

Systematic review workflow

Automates screening and data extraction, with a Pro workflow that can screen 5,000 papers. A Chrome extension fetches full texts through your institution's journal access.

Library and Zotero import

Stores sources in collections with tags so they can be reused across projects, and takes in papers from Zotero, PDFs, and .ris or .bib files.

Routines and API

Routines rerun Research Agent work to pick up new evidence, and an API covers search, reports and systematic reviews. Both start at the Pro plan.

Hebbia

Max

An agent that takes on deal-team tasks such as modeling, screening a target list, spreading comps and recapping earnings calls from the firm's own data.

Matrix

A grid where rows are companies or documents and columns are questions, so one analysis runs across many sources at once.

Financial and filings data

Integrations listed include FactSet, S&P Global, PitchBook, Fitch Solutions, Octus and Moody's, alongside SEC filings and earnings transcripts.

Data room and file connections

Connectors are listed for Datasite, SharePoint, OneDrive, Box, Dropbox and Snowflake.

API access

The platform page shows firms building their own tools on Hebbia's API, including white-labeled front ends.

Security controls

The vendor says customer data is never used to train models, is siloed per customer, and can be processed regionally in the US or EU or on a dedicated tenant.

Elicit

• Basic$0

  Unlimited paper search, summaries and chat with papers, Zotero import, and limited Research Agent and report usage.

• Pro$49

  per user / month, billed annually ($588); $75 billed monthly

  Standard usage, a systematic review workflow that screens 5,000 papers, 20 table columns at a time, Routines and API access.

• Scale$229

  per user / month, billed annually ($2,748); $375 billed monthly

  5x the usage of Pro, real-time collaboration, extraction from figures, 30 table columns at a time and an admin panel with seat management.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Custom usage, SSO and SAML, screening of 40,000 papers, 40 extraction columns, custom data sources and unlimited API access.

Hebbia

Pricing could not be confirmed. See hebbia.com.

Elicit

• Annual discount

  Save 35% to 39% with annual billing

  On industry pricing, Pro is $49 a month billed annually against $75 billed monthly, and Scale is $229 against $375. The pricing page labels these as savings of 35% and 39%.

• Education

  Academic pricing from $11 per user / month

  Choosing Academic on the pricing page shows Plus at $11, Pro at $39 and Scale at $89 per user / month, billed annually, or $19, $69 and $149 billed monthly.

• Nonprofit

  Nonprofits can use the academic plans

  Elicit has no separate nonprofit discount, but its help center says nonprofits can subscribe to the academic plans, its lowest pricing tier.

Hebbia

No public discounts listed.