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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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txyz.ai
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI research assistant for reading, searching, and writing about academic papers, built for researchers managing a personal library.
110K visits/mo
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researcher.life
✓ verifiedPaid
Subscription bundling Editage's academic AI tools: writing assistant, journal finder, literature search, and illustration maker.
723K visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
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
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-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
- ✦AI academic writing assistant with grammar and phrasing suggestions
- ✦Journal recommender matched to a manuscript's abstract
- ✦Scientific illustration library with drag-and-drop editor
- ✦Literature discovery across 300M+ academic papers
- ✦Plagiarism checking and multilingual translation support
- ✦Research skill courses included with subscription
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
- →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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- →Non-native English researchers polishing manuscripts before submission
- →Finding the right journal for a paper's subject area
- →Building scientific figures without a graphic designer
- →Keeping up with new literature in a research field
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