Scholarcy vs Connected Papers vs Semantic Scholar vs Keenious

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

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Scholarcy
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Connected Papers
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Semantic Scholar
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Keenious
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Scholarcy
scholarcy.com
AI that reads papers so you can skim
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Competitor 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 Keenious
keenious.com
Keenious is a research companion that finds published academic literature related to the text you are working on.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
159Kvisits/mo
600.7Kvisits/mo
6.6Mvisits/mo
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MoM change
▼ 17.1%
▼ 18.7%
▲ 11.2%
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6-month growth
-44.5%
-34.0%
-24.2%
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Global rank web
#200,412
#76,429
#10,569
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Avg. last 3 months
183.7K
709.4K
6.4M
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Bounce rate lower is better
38%
44%
48%
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Pages / visit
3.3
2.7
2.7
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Visit duration
54s
2m 05s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 92% · ● Referral 5%
● Direct 74% · ● Referral 24%
● Direct 81% · ● Referral 17%
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ScholarcyConnected PapersSemantic ScholarKeenious
02.2M4.4M6.6M8.7MScholarcy · 411.4KScholarcy · 312.2KScholarcy · 313.4KScholarcy · 279.1KScholarcy · 286.3KScholarcy · 328.9KScholarcy · 279.7KScholarcy · 200.4KScholarcy · 191.8KScholarcy · 159KConnected 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 · 6.6M100K1M10MScholarcy · 411.4KScholarcy · 312.2KScholarcy · 313.4KScholarcy · 279.1KScholarcy · 286.3KScholarcy · 328.9KScholarcy · 279.7KScholarcy · 200.4KScholarcy · 191.8KScholarcy · 159KConnected 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 · 6.6MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
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Freemium
Starting price
$8.99per month · free tier available
$6per month · free tier available
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€10per month · free tier available
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Free FreePlus (Individual) €10/moPlus (Team) €20/moInstitutions Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
DocumentsWeb pages
TextWeb pages
Text
DocumentsText
Output
Text
Data
Text
Text
Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Research & AnalyticsWriting & ContentAI Research PapersAI Summarizer
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Tasks what each tool can do · 3 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Research papers
Academic research
Research
Literature reviews
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Scientific literature exploration
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Scientific research navigation
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Research papers analysis
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Research papers summaries
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Academic papers decoding
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Document summarization
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Literature analysis
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Academic citation
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Academic papers simplification
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