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Check out our log of updates to Elicit:
15 July 2026: The upgraded Elicit API and MCP
Over the years, we’ve built Elicit to be rigorous and systematic for evidence synthesis. We previously released our API in preview to give you access to the same building blocks that make Elicit robust. We've since upgraded our API and today, we're publicly launching it for you to use in your own apps and workflows.
We're launching three endpoints to help you in your work:
- Search API: This API allows you to search 138 million academic papers and 545K clinical trials using either semantic or keyword search. Our API had the best search results (paper recall) when compared against four of the most popular search tools on BioASQ benchmark.
- Reports API: This allows you to submit a research question and generate the answer as a fully cited report based on evidence from hundreds of papers or clinical trials.
- Systematic Review API: The most powerful of the three APIs is the Systematic Review API. This API lets you run a full systematic review end-to-end while giving you control over every step across search strategy, screening criteria, data extraction parameters, and reporting.
Together, these let you put rigorous, fully cited evidence directly into your own workflows and agents. See the demo here https://youtu.be/JFRrlRKXqtU.
All these endpoints are available in the MCP server as well, so Elicit can return cited answers directly in Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or any MCP-compatible client.
Early users are already building agentic systems on top of the API. Read our launch post to learn more.
To get started with the API, generate a key at elicit.com/developer. For MCP connections, you can add it as a Claude connector, a ChatGPT plugin, or you can follow these instructions for other clients. The API and MCP server are available on Pro or higher plans.
Previous Updates
- 7 May 2026: Elicit Systematic Review now supports PRISMA 2020 guidelines
- 29 April 2026: New in Elicit: Tables, figures, and slides in the Research Agent
- 2 April 2026: New in Elicit: Screening quotes and exclusion reasons
- 24 March 2026: New in Elicit: A new way to research
- 3 March 2026: Access Elicit's API
- 26 February 2026: Elicit's Research agent just got a major upgrade
- 19 February 2026: New in Elicit: Scaled Systematic Reviews and Report Templates
- 7 February 2026: New in Elicit: 200 Paper Reports
- 21 January 2026: New in Elicit: Multi-tab search in Systematic Reviews
- 9 December 2025: New in Elicit: Research Agents!
- 2 December 2025: New in Elicit: Figures!
- 27 November 2025: Claude Opus 4.5 now live in Elicit + faster & more narrative reports
- 22 October 2025: A better keyword search for systematic reviews
- 8 October 2025: A new way to find and understand papers in Elicit
- 3 October 2025: New in Elicit: Precise Date Filters
- 4 September 2025: The new Elicit Library: the cleanest way to organize your research
- 28 August 2025: New: Export to Word & Excel, 10 million more papers, SOC 2 compliance
- 23 July 2025: New: Search over clinical trials in Elicit
- 30 June 2025: Introducing Elicit Alerts
- 19 June 2025: Using Elicit to power hyper-efficient drug development
- 12 June 2025: New: Import titles/abstracts for automated screening in Elicit
- 5 June 2025: Video tutorial: How to use Elicit Systematic Review
- 29 May 2025: New in Elicit: Far more full-text papers with Elicit's new browser extension
- 22 May 2025: Improve your Elicit Reports
- 15 May 2025: New in Elicit: High Accuracy for All
- 8 May 2025: How Elicit finds papers
- 1 May 2025: New in Elicit: Recover deleted reports
- 24 April 2025: New in Elicit: Metadata filters in Systematic Reviews
- 17 April 2025: New in Elicit: Edit the metadata on your uploaded papers
- 10 April 2025: New in Elicit: Extract from twice as many papers
- 4 April 2025: New in Elicit: More full-text papers
- 27 March 2025: Using Elicit to inform drug development
- 18 March 2025: How we evaluated Elicit Systematic Review
- 6 March 2025: How we evaluated Elicit Reports
- 28 February 2025: Recent Improvements to Reports
- 20 February 2025: Video tutorial: How to use Elicit Systematic Reviews
- 14 February 2025: New in Elicit: Research Reports
- 12 February 2025: Using Elicit to inform German education policy
- 4 February 2025: New in Elicit: A Team Plan with collaborative features and higher limits
- 31 January 2025: New: View your uploaded PDFs in Elicit
- 24 January 2025: Upgrade to Elicit Pro to use our new Systematic Review workflow
- 15 January 2025: Elicit Case Study: Getting next-gen DNA sequencing tests to market with Elicit
- 2 January 2025: How to get better column results
- 27 December 2024: Elicit in 2024
- 12 December 2024: Search citation trails in both directions with Elicit
- 2 December 2024: New in Elicit: Share Notebooks with anyone - no signup required
- 14 November 2024: How to find papers you'd otherwise miss
- 1 November 2024: New in Elicit: Better Chat with Papers
- 27 September 2024: New in Elicit: Share Notebooks
- 3 September 2024: New in Elicit: Screening and multiple-choice questions
- 15 August 2024: New in Elicit: Verify individual claims in long answers
- 8 August 2024: New in Elicit: Higher quality summaries and better extractions
- 1 August 2024: New in Elicit: A better interface to verify answers
- 25 July 2024: Unlimited search, summaries, and chat. No more credits!
- 10 July 2024: New in Elicit: Checkmarks show when Elicit is at least 90% confident
- 2 July 2024: New in Elicit: The biggest search improvements in 2 years!
- 26 June 2024: New in Elicit: Filter by Journal Quality
- 18 June 2024: New in Elicit: More Accurate Columns and Easier Vetting
- 14 June 2024: New in Elicit: Tag your Papers
- 30 May 2024: New in Elicit: Track Table Loading Status
- 15 May 2024: New in Elicit: Saved Custom Columns
- 6 May 2024: New in Elicit: Improvements to Chat with Papers
- 27 April 2024: How to find hundreds of relevant papers
- 17 April 2024: New in Elicit: Deleting Notebooks
- 11 April 2024: New in Elicit: Deleting Notebook steps & editing queries
- 5 April 2024: How to chat with papers in Elicit
- 29 March 2024: Introducing Elicit Notebooks to all Elicit users! 📚
- 14 March 2024: How to use Elicit for health economics & outcomes research
- 5 March 2024: How to import papers from Zotero into Elicit
- 29 February 2024: How to use Elicit for systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- 22 February 2024: New in Elicit Plus: RIS export
- 17 February 2024: New in Elicit: Summary columns and better column answers
- 5 February 2024: New in Elicit: Filter papers by effect, population, and more
- 29 January 2024: Get the most out of Elicit with Elicit Plus