Scholarcy vs Semantic Scholar vs Citely vs SciSummary

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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Semantic Scholar
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Citely
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SciSummary
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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 Semantic Scholar
semanticscholar.org
AI-powered research discovery
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Competitor Citely
citely.ai
Academic citation fraud poses real problems for researchers who unknowingly reference fabricated papers
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Competitor SciSummary
scisummary.com
SciSummary is an AI reading aid for scientific articles and research papers.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
159Kvisits/mo
6.6Mvisits/mo
62.9Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
▼ 17.1%
▲ 11.2%
▲ 3.3%
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6-month growth
-44.5%
-24.2%
+26.5%
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Global rank web
#200,412
#10,569
#561,691
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Avg. last 3 months
183.7K
6.4M
59.2K
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Bounce rate lower is better
38%
48%
37%
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Pages / visit
3.3
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2.2
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Visit duration
54s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 92% · ● Referral 5%
● Direct 81% · ● Referral 17%
● Direct 77% · ● Referral 23%
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ScholarcySemantic ScholarCitelySciSummary
02.2M4.4M6.6M8.7MScholarcy · 411.4KScholarcy · 312.2KScholarcy · 313.4KScholarcy · 279.1KScholarcy · 286.3KScholarcy · 328.9KScholarcy · 279.7KScholarcy · 200.4KScholarcy · 191.8KScholarcy · 159KSemantic 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 · 6.6MCitely · 52KCitely · 44.1KCitely · 49.7KCitely · 37.2KCitely · 50.1KCitely · 53.8KCitely · 60.8KCitely · 62.9K10K100K1M10MScholarcy · 411.4KScholarcy · 312.2KScholarcy · 313.4KScholarcy · 279.1KScholarcy · 286.3KScholarcy · 328.9KScholarcy · 279.7KScholarcy · 200.4KScholarcy · 191.8KScholarcy · 159KSemantic 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 · 6.6MCitely · 52KCitely · 44.1KCitely · 49.7KCitely · 37.2KCitely · 50.1KCitely · 53.8KCitely · 60.8KCitely · 62.9KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
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Trial $9Monthly $19/moYearly $14/moBeliever $347
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Capabilities input → output
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DocumentsWeb pages
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Skill level
Beginner-friendly
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Categories
Research & AnalyticsWriting & ContentAI Research PapersAI Summarizer
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Productivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsWriting & ContentAI PDF+2 more
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Literature reviews
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Citation verification
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