Paperguide vs Consensus vs Sider Deep Research vs SciSpace

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

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Paperguide
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Consensus
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Sider Deep Research
Competitor 3
SciSpace
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Paperguide
paperguide.ai
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Competitor Consensus
consensus.app
Scientific answers from peer-reviewed research
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Competitor Sider Deep Research
sider.ai
Sider Deep Research tackles the gap between quick AI answers and proper citations
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Competitor SciSpace
scispace.com
Make sense of research papers
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
262.6Kvisits/mo
5.8Mvisits/mo
3.1Mvisits/mo
44.2Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 4.7%
▲ 3.5%
▲ 3.4%
▼ 98.8%
6-month growth
+44.6%
+14.4%
-26.1%
-99.2%
Global rank web
#182,104
#9,859
#22,424
#17,447
Avg. last 3 months
266.5K
5.5M
3M
2.7M
Bounce rate lower is better
44%
43%
56%
56%
Pages / visit
2.3
4.1
2.3
2.5
Visit duration
1m 32s
3m 56s
1m 32s
2m 13s
Traffic sources
● Direct 80% · ● Referral 14%
● Direct 84% · ● Referral 14%
● Direct 93% · ● Referral 5%
● Direct 83% · ● Referral 15%
PaperguideConsensusSider Deep ResearchSciSpace
01.5M2.9M4.4M5.9MPaperguide · 181KPaperguide · 215.1KPaperguide · 183.1KPaperguide · 181.6KPaperguide · 232.2KPaperguide · 282.6KPaperguide · 286.3KPaperguide · 250.7KPaperguide · 262.6KConsensus · 4.4MConsensus · 4.1MConsensus · 3.9MConsensus · 4MConsensus · 5.1MConsensus · 5.9MConsensus · 5.7MConsensus · 5MConsensus · 5.6MConsensus · 5.8MSider Deep Research · 4.1MSider Deep Research · 3.8MSider Deep Research · 3.7MSider Deep Research · 4.1MSider Deep Research · 3.9MSider Deep Research · 3.5MSider Deep Research · 3MSider Deep Research · 3MSider Deep Research · 3.1MSciSpace · 5.9MSciSpace · 5MSciSpace · 4.8MSciSpace · 5.1MSciSpace · 5.8MSciSpace · 5.6MSciSpace · 5MSciSpace · 4.2MSciSpace · 3.8MSciSpace · 44.2K10K100K1M10MPaperguide · 181KPaperguide · 215.1KPaperguide · 183.1KPaperguide · 181.6KPaperguide · 232.2KPaperguide · 282.6KPaperguide · 286.3KPaperguide · 250.7KPaperguide · 262.6KConsensus · 4.4MConsensus · 4.1MConsensus · 3.9MConsensus · 4MConsensus · 5.1MConsensus · 5.9MConsensus · 5.7MConsensus · 5MConsensus · 5.6MConsensus · 5.8MSider Deep Research · 4.1MSider Deep Research · 3.8MSider Deep Research · 3.7MSider Deep Research · 4.1MSider Deep Research · 3.9MSider Deep Research · 3.5MSider Deep Research · 3MSider Deep Research · 3MSider Deep Research · 3.1MSciSpace · 5.9MSciSpace · 5MSciSpace · 4.8MSciSpace · 5.1MSciSpace · 5.8MSciSpace · 5.6MSciSpace · 5MSciSpace · 4.2MSciSpace · 3.8MSciSpace · 44.2KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Free
Freemium
Starting price
$12per month · free tier available
$8.99per month · free tier available
Free
$20per month · free tier available
Free tier
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Plans
Free FreePlus $12/moPro $29/moEnterprise Custom
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Capabilities input → output
Input
DocumentsText
Text
Text
DocumentsText
Output
DataDocumentsText
Text
DocumentsText
DataText
Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Intermediate
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Productivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool+1 more
Research & AnalyticsAI Research Tool
Productivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI PDFAI Research Papers+1 more
Tasks what each tool can do · 3 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Research
Literature reviews
Academic research
Research papers
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Citations
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Research papers analysis
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Research papers drafting
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Research assistance
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Search engine
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Citation verification
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Internet research
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Medical research
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Multilingual research
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PDFs
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Paraphrasing
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Research papers summaries
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Scientific literature exploration
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Scientific research
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Scientific writing
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Academic writing
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PDF analysis
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Writing
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