Scite vs Semantic Scholar
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Scite
Shows whether later research supported or contradicted a paper
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Semantic Scholar
Free AI-assisted academic search across 200M+ papers, from Ai2
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.8 / 10 | 8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Subscription | Free |
| Free tier | 7-day free trial of Basic or Pro; no lasting free plan | Search, paper pages, TLDRs (CS/biomed), Semantic Reader, alerts, feeds and the API are free; an API key gives 1 request/sec |
| Paid from | $12/month (Basic, billed yearly) | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | 15000+ institutions | 50m+ monthly visits |
| Founded | 2018 | 2015 |
| Maker | Research Solutions, Inc. | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) |
| Verdict | Scite's Smart Citations remain the quickest way to see whether a finding has held up: the citing sentence and its classification sit next to the count, and the Assistant links each answer back to that evidence. The MCP s... |
Semantic Scholar remains one of the best free tools for finding and tracing academic literature, with excellent citation data and a generous free API that other research tools build on. Its AI features are narrower than... |
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