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Elicit

Last updated 2026-08-04 · benchmark measured 2026-09-12 — deterministic & reproducible

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Legit.Show scored Elicit 64/100 on 2026-09-12, measured across 6 of 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/elicit-com/2026-09-12

Is Elicit production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Elicit 64 out of 100 — the simple average of its 6 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Elicit (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Privacy. 6 of the seven frames returned a score; Accessibility was not measurable on this service and is recorded as null — not as zero. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — 80/100
• Accessibility — not measurable on this service (null — not scored as 0)
• Security — 55/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
• Privacy — 0/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
• Reliability — 100/100
• Standards — 75/100
• Discoverability — 75/100

What we measured

• Security headers present: HSTS, X-Content-Type-Options.
• No Content-Security-Policy.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 209 ms to first byte.
• Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
• 2 of 2 sampled routes reachable.
• No privacy policy found.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.

Who built it

Andreas Stuhlmüller · product account @elicitorg

Who it's for

Researchers · Scientists · Academics · Systematic review teams · Universities

Pricing

Free (Basic); Pro $49/month ($588/year); Scale $169/month ($2,028/year); Enterprise custom

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