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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.
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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 end points 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.