Move your team from Undermind to Elicit.
Each person gets a short interview, then a personalized step-by-step guide showing exactly where their saved work, prompts, and projects land in Elicit — and the few things that need a manual step, walked through. You send one invite; nobody becomes the help desk, and nothing in Undermind is changed or cancelled. Want to see where you’re paying for both first? Run the free audit.
Elicit's Research Agent and Undermind's AI research assistant both act as AI co-researchers that decompose a high-level question into a research program and execute it autonomously. To migrate from Elicit to Undermind: submit the same natural-language research question to Undermind's assistant; engage with its clarifying-question dialogue to tune scope, discipline, and intent the way Elicit's agent decomposed sub-questions automatically. Download Elicit agent outputs (reports, tables, figures) before switching — Elicit lets you export cited paper lists; import those into Undermind's project library to preserve your starting corpus. To migrate from Undermind to Elicit: enter the research question into Elicit's Research Agent (Pro plan required); use its filter/save/export controls to iterate on the paper set; leverage the April 2026 'Tables, figures, and slides' output format to replicate structured deliverables.
- Warning: Elicit Research Agent is plan-gated (Pro and above); Undermind's AI research assistant is available on all plans including Free, though Free-tier users access less powerful AI models.
- Warning: Elicit's agent can output presentation-ready tables, figures, and slide decks natively (as of April 2026); Undermind's report output is text-plus-custom-tables and does not currently include native slide or figure generation.
- Warning: Elicit Research Agent supports an extended-thinking mode for deeper synthesis; Undermind relies on model tier (Free vs Pro) to modulate reasoning depth — there is no user-selectable 'deep thinking' toggle.
Both tools ground every AI-generated claim in a traceable source paper. Elicit applies sentence-level citation anchoring uniformly across summaries, extraction columns, Reports, and Research Agent outputs — each claim links to an exact quote from the underlying paper or abstract. Undermind shows a clickable source link for every finding, letting users verify a claim against the underlying paper before citing it. When moving from Elicit to Undermind: after running a search, use Undermind's 'click through to verify' workflow for each key claim the same way you would inspect Elicit's inline source quotes. When moving from Undermind to Elicit: use Elicit's data-extraction columns to systematically pull specific data points with supporting quotes — the column approach gives a structured audit trail comparable to Undermind's manual click-through verification.
- Warning: Elicit citation grounding applies to full-text PDFs when available and falls back to abstract-only when not; Undermind's citation traceability similarly depends on full-text access, but its public docs do not specify how it handles abstract-only papers.
- Warning: Elicit publishes validated accuracy benchmarks (99.4% extraction accuracy, zero false negatives in a CSIRO evaluation); Undermind does not publish equivalent independent accuracy benchmarks, making side-by-side quality comparison difficult.
- Warning: Elicit's PRISMA 2020 support (exclusion reasons and per-criterion scores with supporting quotes, added May 2026) has no direct Undermind equivalent — switching away from Elicit mid-systematic-review would lose this audit trail format.
Both tools can synthesize a literature search into a structured written report. Elicit Reports are generated from a natural-language research question: Elicit searches up to 200 papers, extracts data, and produces a structured report with sentence-level citations; reports are customizable after generation and reusable via Report Templates. Undermind generates a summary report after any deep search and supports iterative refinement through follow-up prompts, plus custom tables for structured paper comparison. To migrate from Elicit to Undermind: export your Elicit Report (copy text and citation list), then run the same research question in Undermind to generate a fresh report and refine it iteratively. To migrate from Undermind to Elicit: submit the same research question as an Elicit Report; use Elicit's template feature (available from February 2026) to standardize the output structure across projects.
- Warning: Elicit Reports are quota-limited by plan: Basic gets 2 automated reports per month; Pro gets 144 reports or systematic reviews per year; Undermind's report generation limits are not publicly stated per-plan, but Free tier accesses less powerful synthesis models.
- Warning: Elicit Reports cover up to 200 papers per report with full sentence-level citation anchoring; Undermind does not publicly document a paper ceiling for its reports, and its citation model is click-through verification rather than inline sentence-level quotes.
- Warning: Elicit Report Templates allow teams to standardize report structure; Undermind has no equivalent template feature — each report must be shaped through iterative follow-up prompts.
Both tools support semantic search across large academic corpora — Elicit covers 138M+ papers via Semantic Scholar, PubMed, and OpenAlex; Undermind searches full text (not just abstracts) and follows citation trails to surface related work. To migrate from Elicit to Undermind: rerun your saved Elicit queries in Undermind's web app using the same natural-language phrasing; Undermind will ask clarifying questions to scope the search before executing. To migrate from Undermind to Elicit: paste your research question directly into Elicit's search bar; apply Elicit's filters (year, study type, journal quartile, PDF availability) to replicate the precision you relied on in Undermind. Export paper lists from either tool to CSV and import into a reference manager (Zotero, EndNote) to preserve your collected corpus across the switch.
- Warning: Elicit's corpus is deduplicated to 138M+ papers with weekly/daily updates from its aggregated sources; Undermind does not publicly state its corpus size or update cadence, so coverage for niche or very recent literature may differ.
- Warning: Elicit supports keyword and semantic search modes with explicit filters per query; Undermind's search scope is configured through its AI clarifying dialogue rather than manual filter controls — users accustomed to structured filter UIs will need to encode those constraints in plain language.
- Warning: Elicit paper search is fully free and unlimited on all plans including Basic; Undermind's deepest full-text search is reserved for Pro and above (Free tier has standard rate limits).
Both tools let researchers save a topic and receive notifications when new matching papers appear. In Elicit, set up a Research Alert by saving a natural-language query; it retains the last year of matching papers on creation and adds new papers continuously, with email notifications and CSV export. In Undermind, alerts are configured through the web app and cover the same full-text search scope as manual queries; Enterprise users get role-aware alerts tailored to each team member's active projects. To migrate alerts from Elicit to Undermind: export your Elicit alert results to CSV, then recreate the alert query in Undermind's web app using the same natural-language phrasing. To migrate from Undermind to Elicit: recreate each alert query in Elicit's Alerts interface; use Elicit's keyword inclusion/exclusion filters and study-type filters to replicate the precision of Undermind's full-text scope.
- Warning: Elicit Research Alerts are Pro-and-above (not available on the free Basic tier); Undermind standard alerts appear to be available at lower tiers, but role-aware team alerts require Enterprise.
- Warning: Elicit limits Pro accounts to 10 concurrent alerts and Enterprise to unlimited; Undermind's per-plan concurrent alert limits are not publicly documented.
- Warning: Elicit alerts draw from its aggregated corpus (Semantic Scholar + PubMed + OpenAlex); Undermind alerts use its own full-text search index — coverage gaps may cause one tool to surface a paper the other misses.