Citely vs SciSpace vs ScienceOS vs Keenious

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

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Citely
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SciSpace
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ScienceOS
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Keenious
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Citely
citely.ai
Academic citation fraud poses real problems for researchers who unknowingly reference fabricated papers
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Competitor SciSpace
scispace.com
Make sense of research papers
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Competitor ScienceOS
scienceos.ai
Researchers waste hours hunting through literature—piecing together fragments from different papers
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Competitor Keenious
keenious.com
Keenious is a research companion that finds published academic literature related to the text you are working on.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
62.9Kvisits/mo
44.2Kvisits/mo
64.9Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
▲ 3.3%
▼ 98.8%
▼ 6.2%
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6-month growth
+26.5%
-99.2%
+1.2%
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Global rank web
#561,691
#17,447
#464,304
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Avg. last 3 months
59.2K
2.7M
68.2K
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Bounce rate lower is better
37%
56%
39%
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Pages / visit
2.2
2.5
3.7
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Visit duration
24s
2m 13s
1m 37s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 77% · ● Referral 23%
● Direct 83% · ● Referral 15%
● Direct 98% · ● Mail 2%
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CitelySciSpaceScienceOSKeenious
01.5M2.9M4.4M5.9MCitely · 52KCitely · 44.1KCitely · 49.7KCitely · 37.2KCitely · 50.1KCitely · 53.8KCitely · 60.8KCitely · 62.9KSciSpace · 5.9MSciSpace · 5MSciSpace · 4.8MSciSpace · 5.1MSciSpace · 5.8MSciSpace · 5.6MSciSpace · 5MSciSpace · 4.2MSciSpace · 3.8MSciSpace · 44.2KScienceOS · 79.4KScienceOS · 75.1KScienceOS · 79.7KScienceOS · 64.1KScienceOS · 64.5KScienceOS · 56.4KScienceOS · 70.5KScienceOS · 69.2KScienceOS · 64.9K10K100K1M10MCitely · 52KCitely · 44.1KCitely · 49.7KCitely · 37.2KCitely · 50.1KCitely · 53.8KCitely · 60.8KCitely · 62.9KSciSpace · 5.9MSciSpace · 5MSciSpace · 4.8MSciSpace · 5.1MSciSpace · 5.8MSciSpace · 5.6MSciSpace · 5MSciSpace · 4.2MSciSpace · 3.8MSciSpace · 44.2KScienceOS · 79.4KScienceOS · 75.1KScienceOS · 79.7KScienceOS · 64.1KScienceOS · 64.5KScienceOS · 56.4KScienceOS · 70.5KScienceOS · 69.2KScienceOS · 64.9KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
$9per month
$20per month · free tier available
€7.25per month · free tier available
€10per month · free tier available
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Plans
Trial $9Monthly $19/moYearly $14/moBeliever $347
Free FreePremium $20/moAdvanced $90/moMax $200/mo+1 more
Free FreeAngel €7.25/moTeam €6/moInstitution Custom
Free FreePlus (Individual) €10/moPlus (Team) €20/moInstitutions Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
Text
DocumentsText
DocumentsText
DocumentsText
Output
Text
DataText
DataText
Text
Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Intermediate
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Productivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI PDFAI Research Papers+1 more
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Tasks what each tool can do · 2 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Research
Research papers
Academic research
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Citations
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Literature reviews
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Scientific literature exploration
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Academic citation
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Research assistance
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Literature analysis
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PDF analysis
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Citation verification
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Scientific q a
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Academic paper interpretations
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PDFs
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Paraphrasing
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Research papers analysis
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Research papers drafting
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Scientific writing
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Academic papers simplification
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Literature interaction
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Network diagrams
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Papers translation
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