Scite vs Semantic Scholar
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Scite
Citation index that flags support vs. contradiction, not just count
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Semantic Scholar
Free AI-powered academic search across 236M+ papers, all fields.
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.8 / 10 | 8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Free tier | Limited citation lookups and searches | Full access to all features for free |
| Paid from | $20/month (Premium) | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 15000+ institutions | 50m+ monthly visits |
| Founded | 2018 | 2015 |
| Maker | Josh Nicholson, Domenic Rosati | Allen Institute for AI |
| Verdict | Scite's core idea — classifying whether a citing paper actually supports, contradicts, or just name-checks a claim — is still the sharpest tool in academic citation analysis, and Smart Citations make it fast to see how w... |
Semantic Scholar, run by the nonprofit Allen Institute for AI, indexes over 236 million papers and ranks them by meaning rather than keyword overlap, which is where it beats Google Scholar's plain matching. The TLDR one-... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.