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Semantic Scholar
✓ verifiedFree
Free AI-powered academic search engine indexing 236M+ papers, for researchers wanting semantic literature discovery and an augmented reader.
7.9M visits/mo13K saves
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Elicit
✓ verifiedFreemium
Well-adopted AI research assistant for finding papers, summarizing, and extracting data at scale.
2.1M visits/mo
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SciSummary
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI tool that summarizes scientific papers into abstract, methods, results, and conclusion sections, with figure and citation support.
74K visits/mo162K saves
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txyz.ai
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI research assistant for reading, searching, and writing about academic papers, built for researchers managing a personal library.
110K visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
Basic: Free
Plus: $10 per month, billed annually
Pro: $42 per month, billed annually
Team: $65 per user, per month billed annually
Enterprise: Custom
Free Trial: $0 for first 7 days (30,000 words, 5 figures, 100 chat messages)
Student: $0 for first month (promo code, unlimited use)
Pro: $4/month billed as $48/year (unlimited summaries, figures, chat, and searches)
Free trial available
Free: $0/year (up to 100-page file analysis, 5 writing pages)
Pro: $96/year (up to 100-page analysis, full library access)
Ultra: $288/year (up to 300-page analysis, 3x context window)
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦AI-powered semantic search across 236M+ papers
- ✦Semantic Reader for augmented, contextual paper reading
- ✦Free public API for paper search and metadata
- ✦Author and topic discovery
- ✦Citation graph exploration
- ✦Beta program for new features
- ✦AI-enabled systematic reviews
- ✦Research reports
- ✦Upload your own PDFs
- ✦Quick summaries
- ✦Source quotes
- ✦Question answering
- ✦Structured section-by-section paper summarization
- ✦Bulk and multi-paper summarization and comparison
- ✦Chat with figures for data interpretation
- ✦Folder and tag-based library organization
- ✦Semantic search across indexed documents on Pro
- ✦ChatGPT connector integration
- ✦AI-assisted search across academic papers
- ✦Chat-based Q&A over uploaded documents with source citations
- ✦Personal research library with retention limits by plan
- ✦AI writing agent for drafting research-based content
- ✦API access for institutions and businesses
- ✦Adjustable file upload size (up to 300 pages on top tier)
- ✦Scholar Search
Use cases
- →Researchers searching scientific literature across disciplines
- →Developers building applications on top of scholarly data via the API
- →Students exploring citation networks for a topic
- →Librarians and academics needing free literature discovery tools
- →Speeding up literature reviews
- →Automating systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- →Learning about new domains
- →Data extraction in rigorous systematic literature reviews
- →Students digesting dense research papers quickly
- →Researchers doing literature reviews across many papers
- →Academics organizing a personal paper library
- →Finding papers relevant to a research topic
- →Getting quick summaries and answers from long PDFs
- →Managing and revisiting a personal library of research papers
- →Drafting literature-informed writing with AI assistance
- →Integrating paper search/analysis into an institution's own tools via API
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