Connected Papers vs Literfy vs Scholarcy

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

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Connected Papers
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Literfy
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Scholarcy
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Suggested competitors for Connected Papers: ResearchRabbit90% Semantic Scholar72% Elicit66% Scite64% SciSpace62% Consensus60% FFindsight60% Paperguide59%
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3 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Connected Papers
connectedpapers.com
Visual tool for exploring related research
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Competitor Literfy
literfy.ai
Literfy is an AI literature review generator that combines paper search with review writing in one workflow.
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Competitor Scholarcy
scholarcy.com
AI that reads papers so you can skim
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
600.7Kvisits/mo
6.3Kvisits/mo
159Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▼ 18.7%
▼ 44.6%
▼ 17.1%
6-month growth
-34.0%
-70.3%
-44.5%
Global rank web
#76,429
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Avg. last 3 months
709.4K
11.1K
183.7K
Bounce rate lower is better
44%
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38%
Pages / visit
2.7
1.9
3.3
Visit duration
2m 05s
6s
54s
Traffic sources
● Direct 74% · ● Referral 24%
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● Direct 92% · ● Referral 5%
Connected PapersLiterfyScholarcy
0241.5K483K724.5K966KConnected Papers · 966KConnected Papers · 779.7KConnected Papers · 839.4KConnected Papers · 823.6KConnected Papers · 910.1KConnected Papers · 948.5KConnected Papers · 872.6KConnected Papers · 788.3KConnected Papers · 739KConnected Papers · 600.7KLiterfy · 88Literfy · 21.4KLiterfy · 16.5KLiterfy · 39.8KLiterfy · 15.5KLiterfy · 11.4KLiterfy · 6.3KScholarcy · 411.4KScholarcy · 312.2KScholarcy · 313.4KScholarcy · 279.1KScholarcy · 286.3KScholarcy · 328.9KScholarcy · 279.7KScholarcy · 200.4KScholarcy · 191.8KScholarcy · 159K101001K10K100K1MConnected Papers · 966KConnected Papers · 779.7KConnected Papers · 839.4KConnected Papers · 823.6KConnected Papers · 910.1KConnected Papers · 948.5KConnected Papers · 872.6KConnected Papers · 788.3KConnected Papers · 739KConnected Papers · 600.7KLiterfy · 88Literfy · 21.4KLiterfy · 16.5KLiterfy · 39.8KLiterfy · 15.5KLiterfy · 11.4KLiterfy · 6.3KScholarcy · 411.4KScholarcy · 312.2KScholarcy · 313.4KScholarcy · 279.1KScholarcy · 286.3KScholarcy · 328.9KScholarcy · 279.7KScholarcy · 200.4KScholarcy · 191.8KScholarcy · 159KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
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Starting price
$6per month · free tier available
$19per month · free tier available
$8.99per month · free tier available
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Free FreeLight Pack $19Pro Monthly $29/moPro Yearly $329/yr
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Capabilities input → output
Input
TextWeb pages
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DocumentsWeb pages
Output
Data
Text
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Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Intermediate
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Research & AnalyticsWriting & ContentAI Research PapersAI Summarizer
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Research papers
Literature reviews
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Academic research
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Scientific research navigation
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Document summarization
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Research
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Research papers analysis
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Research recommendations
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