Citely vs SciSpace vs ScienceOS vs Sourcely
Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.
Your tool
Citely
vs Citely
Competitor 1
SciSpace
SciSpace
Competitor 2
ScienceOS
ScienceOS
Competitor 3
Sourcely
SourcelyCompare
4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool
Citely
Citely
citely.ai
Academic citation fraud poses real problems for researchers who unknowingly reference fabricated papers
Competitor
ScienceOS
ScienceOS
scienceos.ai
Researchers waste hours hunting through literature—piecing together fragments from different papers
Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
62.9Kvisits/mo
44.2Kvisits/mo
64.9Kvisits/mo
121.3Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 3.3%
▼ 98.8%
▼ 6.2%
▼ 17.6%
6-month growth
+26.5%
-99.2%
+1.2%
-27.7%
Global rank web
#561,691
#17,447
#464,304
#330,988
Avg. last 3 months
59.2K
2.7M
68.2K
143.2K
Bounce rate lower is better
37%
56%
39%
39%
Pages / visit
2.2
2.5
3.7
2.2
Visit duration
24s
2m 13s
1m 37s
33s
Traffic sources
● Direct 77% · ● Referral 23%
● Direct 83% · ● Referral 15%
● Direct 98% · ● Mail 2%
● Direct 63% · ● Referral 35%
CitelySciSpaceScienceOSSourcely
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
$9per month
$20per month · free tier available
€7.25per month · free tier available
$19per month · free tier available
Free tier
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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 FreeUltra $19/moMax $39/mo
Capabilities input → output
Input
Text
DocumentsText
DocumentsText
Text
Output
Text
DataText
DataText
Text
Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Intermediate
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Tasks what each tool can do · 3 shared · core partial
Tasks covered
6
12
8
9
Citations
Research
Research papers
Academic research
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Academic citation
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Literature reviews
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PDF analysis
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Citation verification
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Research assistance
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Scientific q a
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Citation formatting
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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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Research papers summaries
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Scientific literature exploration
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Scientific writing
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Academic q a
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Literature analysis
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Network diagrams
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Prompts
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Traffic figures are third-party estimates for the tool's own domain; tools sharing a domain with a bigger product are not counted. Pricing is captured from each tool's site and may lag.