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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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ThesisAI
✓ verifiedPaid
AI research workspace that drafts full academic papers with verified inline citations from up to 500 uploaded sources in a single prompt.
189K visits/mo32K saves
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BioSkepsis
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI life-sciences research assistant: semantic search over 40M+ papers with traceable citations, knowledge-graph retrieval and Zotero import.
581 saves
Pricing
No public pricing
Per document: from $4
Basic: €0 (free monthly usage)
Plus: €8/mo (2.5x free usage)
Pro: €35/mo (8x free usage)
Team: €60/mo (3 seats)
Free trial available
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
- ✦Full document drafting from one prompt
- ✦Automated literature search via Semantic Scholar
- ✦Import and cite up to 500 uploaded papers
- ✦Inline citation verification
- ✦Export to PDF, Word, LaTeX, and BibTeX
- ✦Overleaf integration for manual editing
- ✦Zotero and Mendeley library import
- ✦Semantic search across 40M+ life-science papers
- ✦Auto-mode Research Agent with query refinement
- ✦Full-text reasoning, not just abstracts
- ✦Biology-native knowledge graph retrieval
- ✦Evidence-graded, citation-backed answers
- ✦Zotero library import and session sharing
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
- →Researchers producing a literature review quickly
- →Students drafting long papers with verified citations
- →Academics writing in a non-native language
- →Exporting AI-drafted content into LaTeX workflows
- →Interpreting lab results against published evidence
- →Running literature reviews
- →Generating hypotheses and methodologies
- →Preparing proposals and lectures
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