Legit.Show measured Elicit's Security frame at 55/100. Security headers present: HSTS, X-Content-Type-Options. Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.

How does Legit.Show measure Elicit?

Legit.Show scores seven frames — Performance, Accessibility, Security, Privacy, Reliability, Standards and Discoverability — deterministically from the public surface (URL, HTTP headers, real Lighthouse), with no LLM in the scoring path. See legit.show/methodology.

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Elicit

Last updated 2026-08-04 · benchmark measured 2026-10-29 — deterministic & reproducible

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72/100

7/7 frames

Top 76% of 18,720 measured · #18 of 24 in academic research assistant

Legit Benchmark — the simple average of 7 measured frames. Frames we could not measure are left out of the average, never counted as zero. Every frame is shown below with its evidence.

Checked 2026-10-29 · scores move as sites change

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Legit.Show scored Elicit 72/100 on 2026-10-29, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/elicit-com/2026-10-29

Is Elicit production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Elicit 72 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 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 Accessibility; its weakest is Privacy. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

Performance — 70/100
Accessibility — 97/100
Security — 55/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
Privacy — 25/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
Reliability — 92/100
Standards — 89/100
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 — 161 ms to first byte.
Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
0 of 0 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

Sources and updates

Description: Taken from elicit.com's own website on 2026-08-04.
Operator: Elicit, inc., as named in elicit.com's terms, privacy page or footer.
Benchmark: Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-10-29.

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