Thesisroom vs Elicit
Elicit generates research briefs and helps automate a systematic review. Thesisroom never writes any part of your thesis: it checks the one you wrote, and shows you what to fix before your supervisor reads it.
What it reads
- Thesisroom
- Your thesis: a proposal, a chapter, a reference list or a full draft
- Elicit
- Published papers: search across more than 138 million, with summaries and chat with papers, and custom extractions from papers you upload on Pro
What you get back
- Thesisroom
- Citation verdicts drawn from nine academic registries, comments on a chapter, the contradictions between your chapters, and practice questions, each next to the passage it came from
- Elicit
- Research briefs based on a process inspired by systematic reviews, and automated screening and data extraction for a systematic review
Writes text for you
- Thesisroom
- No. It returns questions, comments and citation verdicts, and never a sentence for your thesis
- Elicit
- Yes. It generates research briefs
Free option
- Thesisroom
- Free to start with no card: 15 citations checked and 3 questions your examiner or committee could ask
- Elicit
- Basic is free, with limited use of its Research Agent and Research Reports
Price
- Thesisroom
- $12 a month, or $9 a month billed annually
- Elicit
- Pro $49 per user a month, billed as $588 annually
Elicit's details were read on its own site on 27 October 2026. Prices and plans change, so check them there before you decide. Sources: elicit.com/pricing, elicit.com.
What Elicit does well
Elicit can find up to 1,000 relevant papers and analyze up to 20,000 data points at once, automates screening and data extraction for a systematic review, and generates research briefs you can customize by which papers and information they cover. If you are running a systematic review or want a brief on a body of research, Elicit is built for that work.
When Thesisroom is the better choice
If you have written a chapter, a proposal or a reference list and want to know where it does not hold before your supervisor, examiner or committee finds it, Thesisroom reads your own text and leaves every sentence yours. You make every change.
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