AI & Agents
Elicit
Last updated 2026-08-04 · benchmark measured 2026-08-04 — deterministic & reproducible
AI-powered research tool for searching, summarizing, and analyzing academic papers.
Is Elicit production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Elicit 67 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 Reliability; its weakest is Privacy. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 54/100
- Accessibility — 97/100
- Security — 55/100
- Privacy — 0/100
- Reliability — 100/100
- 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 — 132 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 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