Scinapse vs Litmaps

A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.

Scinapse Citation-grounded academic search from Seoul's Pluto Labs Visit Litmaps Discover related research with citation-graph mapping Visit
RECATOOLS Score 6.4 / 10 7 / 10
Capability 6 7
Value for money 7 7
Ease of use 7 7
ASEAN readiness 7 6
API quality 4 0
Pricing Freemium Freemium
Free tier 3 maps with 200 papers each
Paid from $10/month (Researcher)
Has API
Open source
Free to use
Users 100k+ researchers
Founded 2016
Maker University of Otago
Verdict

Pluto Labs built Scinapse around citation data rather than raw keyword relevance, so a search surfaces the papers a field actually cites and the people behind them, plus author-level analytics. The free tier handles day-...

Litmaps maps citation networks so you can see how papers connect, spot the seminal ones, and catch new work as it publishes — handy for systematic reviews and expanding out from a handful of seed papers. The bigger 2026...

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