AI assistants and search
Elicit alternatives
2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.
The projects
dzhng/deep-research★19,495 GitHub starsMIT licenceAgent-style research assistant that iteratively searches the web, scrapes sources, and summarizes findings.Open on GitHub ↗arc53/DocsGPT★18,198 GitHub starsMIT licencePlatform for document analysis, enterprise search, and building AI agents over document collections.Open on GitHub ↗
What you give up either way
- Access to Elicit's indexed proprietary corpus and integrated search over 138M+ papers
- Validated accuracy benchmarks and PRISMA-grade systematic-review tooling
- Enterprise features: SSO/SAML, admin panels, seat management, and high-usage quotas
- Live collaboration, scale optimizations, and prebuilt export templates
An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Elicit, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.