Elicit vs STORM

Elicit

• Researchers running systematic reviews with screening and data extraction
• Finding papers from a research question instead of exact keywords
• Teams that need cited evidence reports to support a decision

STORM

• Getting a cited overview of an unfamiliar topic
• The pre-writing stage of a long article or report
• Developers who want an open-source research pipeline to adapt

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.

STORM

• The hosted site is a research preview with limited safety measures, and its terms warn that reports can contain mistakes.
• Inputs on the hosted site are collected for research and may be distributed under a Creative Commons license.
• The developers say the output is not publication-ready and often needs a significant number of edits.
• Running the open-source package yourself requires your own language model and search API keys.

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.

STORM

Report generation

Researches a topic through Internet search, drafts an outline and writes a full-length, Wikipedia-like article with citations to its sources.

Perspective-guided questions

Looks for different perspectives on the topic and simulates a conversation between a writer and a topic expert, grounded in sources, to work out which questions to ask.

Co-STORM

A collaborative mode in which the user takes part in a discussion among AI experts, with a moderator that raises questions from information not yet used.

Mind map

Co-STORM keeps a mind map that sorts the collected information into a hierarchy of concepts, updated as the discussion goes on.

Open-source Python package

The knowledge-storm package installs with pip and is MIT-licensed. Language and embedding models are configured through litellm.

Pluggable search

Retrieval modules cover Bing, You.com, Brave, Serper, Tavily, DuckDuckGo, SearXNG and Google search, plus a vector store for grounding on your own documents.

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$169

  per user / month, billed annually ($2,028); $279 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.

STORM

• Free$0

  The hosted research preview of STORM and Co-STORM, and the MIT-licensed knowledge-storm package for running it yourself.

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 $169 against $279. 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.

STORM

No public discounts listed.