Rayyan vs Semantic Scholar
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Rayyan
Systematic-review screening with blind mode, dedup and AI assistance
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Semantic Scholar
Free AI-assisted academic search across 200M+ papers, from Ai2
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.2 / 10 | 8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Free tier | Free forever: 3 active reviews, 2 invited reviewers, 1 sample, AI relevance predictions, limited mobile app use | Search, paper pages, TLDRs (CS/biomed), Semantic Reader, alerts, feeds and the API are free; an API key gives 1 request/sec |
| Paid from | $4.99/seat/month billed annually (Essential); $8.33/month billed quarterly | — |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 300k+ researchers | 50m+ monthly visits |
| Founded | 2014 | 2015 |
| Maker | Mourad Ouzzani, Hossam Hammady | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) |
| Verdict | Rayyan is still the default screening tool for systematic reviews: blind dual screening, reliable duplicate handling and relevance ranking work well, and the free plan is enough for a first review. Individual plans are c... |
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... |
| Full review → | Full review → |
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