Connected Papers vs Semantic Scholar vs Elicit 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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Elicit
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Scholarcy
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Connected Papers
connectedpapers.com
Visual tool for exploring related research
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Competitor Semantic Scholar
semanticscholar.org
AI-powered research discovery
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Competitor Elicit
elicit.org
Research assistant that reads the papers
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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
6.6Mvisits/mo
9.2Kvisits/mo
159Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▼ 18.7%
▲ 11.2%
▼ 37.4%
▼ 17.1%
6-month growth
-34.0%
-24.2%
+0.1%
-44.5%
Global rank web
#76,429
#10,569
#2,562,886
#200,412
Avg. last 3 months
709.4K
6.4M
12.3K
183.7K
Bounce rate lower is better
44%
48%
37%
38%
Pages / visit
2.7
2.7
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3.3
Visit duration
2m 05s
1m 46s
4s
54s
Traffic sources
● Direct 74% · ● Referral 24%
● Direct 81% · ● Referral 17%
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● Direct 92% · ● Referral 5%
Connected PapersSemantic ScholarElicitScholarcy
02.2M4.4M6.6M8.7MConnected 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 · 600.7KSemantic Scholar · 7.2MSemantic Scholar · 6.7MSemantic Scholar · 6.9MSemantic Scholar · 7.1MSemantic Scholar · 8.7MSemantic Scholar · 8.7MSemantic Scholar · 7.9MSemantic Scholar · 6.6MSemantic Scholar · 5.9MSemantic Scholar · 6.6MElicit · 7KElicit · 19KElicit · 17.3KElicit · 9.2KElicit · 4.5KElicit · 9.9KElicit · 13.1KElicit · 14.6KElicit · 9.2KScholarcy · 411.4KScholarcy · 312.2KScholarcy · 313.4KScholarcy · 279.1KScholarcy · 286.3KScholarcy · 328.9KScholarcy · 279.7KScholarcy · 200.4KScholarcy · 191.8KScholarcy · 159K1K10K100K1M10MConnected 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 · 600.7KSemantic Scholar · 7.2MSemantic Scholar · 6.7MSemantic Scholar · 6.9MSemantic Scholar · 7.1MSemantic Scholar · 8.7MSemantic Scholar · 8.7MSemantic Scholar · 7.9MSemantic Scholar · 6.6MSemantic Scholar · 5.9MSemantic Scholar · 6.6MElicit · 7KElicit · 19KElicit · 17.3KElicit · 9.2KElicit · 4.5KElicit · 9.9KElicit · 13.1KElicit · 14.6KElicit · 9.2KScholarcy · 411.4KScholarcy · 312.2KScholarcy · 313.4KScholarcy · 279.1KScholarcy · 286.3KScholarcy · 328.9KScholarcy · 279.7KScholarcy · 200.4KScholarcy · 191.8KScholarcy · 159KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Free
Freemium
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Starting price
$6per month · free tier available
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$10per month · free tier available
$8.99per month · free tier available
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Capabilities input → output
Input
TextWeb pages
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DocumentsText
DocumentsWeb pages
Output
Data
Text
DataText
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Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
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
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Literature reviews
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Scientific research navigation
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Academic research
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Research papers analysis
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Scientific literature exploration
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Document summarization
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