Scholarcy vs Semantic Scholar
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Scholarcy
Turns papers into structured flashcards: findings, methods, refs.
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Semantic Scholar
Free AI-assisted academic search across 200M+ papers, from Ai2
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.3 / 10 | 8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Free tier | Free plan capped — the pricing page says both 10 summaries and one a day | Search, paper pages, TLDRs (CS/biomed), Semantic Reader, alerts, feeds and the API are free; an API key gives 1 request/sec |
| Paid from | Scholarcy Plus from SGD 13.99 a month, priced by country | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 1m+ researchers | 50m+ monthly visits |
| Founded | 2018 | 2015 |
| Maker | Everway (acquired October 2025) | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) |
| Verdict | Scholarcy does one job: feed it a paper and it hands back a structured summary — key findings, methods, tables, a pulled reference list — instead of you reading twenty pages to get there. The Chrome extension is the most... |
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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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.