Paperguide vs ScienceOS vs ScholarAI vs Sider Deep Research
Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.
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Paperguide
vs Paperguide
Competitor 1
ScienceOS
ScienceOS
Competitor 2
ScholarAI
ScholarAI
Competitor 3
Sider Deep Research
Sider Deep ResearchCompare
4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Competitor
ScienceOS
ScienceOS
scienceos.ai
Researchers waste hours hunting through literature—piecing together fragments from different papers
Competitor
Sider Deep Research
Sider Deep Research
sider.ai
Sider Deep Research tackles the gap between quick AI answers and proper citations
Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
262.6Kvisits/mo
64.9Kvisits/mo
106.2Kvisits/mo
3.1Mvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 4.7%
▼ 6.2%
▼ 21.7%
▲ 3.4%
6-month growth
+44.6%
+1.2%
-22.5%
-26.1%
Global rank web
#182,104
#464,304
#323,702
#22,424
Avg. last 3 months
266.5K
68.2K
124.1K
3M
Bounce rate lower is better
44%
39%
37%
56%
Pages / visit
2.3
3.7
1.9
2.3
Visit duration
1m 32s
1m 37s
28s
1m 32s
Traffic sources
● Direct 80% · ● Referral 14%
● Direct 98% · ● Mail 2%
● Direct 64% · ● Referral 36%
● Direct 93% · ● Referral 5%
PaperguideScienceOSScholarAISider Deep Research
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Free
Starting price
$12per month · free tier available
€7.25per month · free tier available
$9.99per month · free tier available
Free
Free tier
Free trial
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Plans
Free FreePlus $12/moPro $29/moEnterprise Custom
Free FreeAngel €7.25/moTeam €6/moInstitution Custom
Free CustomBasic $9.99/moPremium $18.99/moTeams Custom
Free Trial Free
Capabilities input → output
Input
DocumentsText
DocumentsText
DocumentsText
Text
Output
DataDocumentsText
DataText
Text
DocumentsText
Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Intermediate
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Tasks what each tool can do · 2 shared · core partial
Tasks covered
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7
Research
Citations
Research papers
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Academic research
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Literature reviews
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Scientific literature exploration
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Research papers drafting
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Academic citation
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Research papers summaries
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Scientific q a
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Citation formatting
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Citation verification
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Internet research
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Multilingual research
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PDF analysis
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Research papers analysis
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Academic writing
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Literature analysis
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Network diagrams
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Writing
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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.