Scholarcy vs Semantic Scholar vs SciSpace vs Keenious

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

Your tool
Scholarcy
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Competitor 1
Semantic Scholar
Competitor 2
SciSpace
Competitor 3
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
Competitor Semantic Scholar
semanticscholar.org
AI-powered research discovery
Competitor SciSpace
scispace.com
Make sense of research papers
Competitor Keenious
keenious.com
Keenious is a research companion that finds published academic literature related to the text you are working on.
Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
159Kvisits/mo
6.6Mvisits/mo
44.2Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
▼ 17.1%
▲ 11.2%
▼ 98.8%
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6-month growth
-44.5%
-24.2%
-99.2%
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Global rank web
#200,412
#10,569
#17,447
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Avg. last 3 months
183.7K
6.4M
2.7M
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Bounce rate lower is better
38%
48%
56%
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Pages / visit
3.3
2.7
2.5
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Visit duration
54s
1m 46s
2m 13s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 92% · ● Referral 5%
● Direct 81% · ● Referral 17%
● Direct 83% · ● Referral 15%
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ScholarcySemantic ScholarSciSpaceKeenious
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 · 6.6MSciSpace · 5.9MSciSpace · 5MSciSpace · 4.8MSciSpace · 5.1MSciSpace · 5.8MSciSpace · 5.6MSciSpace · 5MSciSpace · 4.2MSciSpace · 3.8MSciSpace · 44.2K10K100K1M10MScholarcy · 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 · 6.6MSciSpace · 5.9MSciSpace · 5MSciSpace · 4.8MSciSpace · 5.1MSciSpace · 5.8MSciSpace · 5.6MSciSpace · 5MSciSpace · 4.2MSciSpace · 3.8MSciSpace · 44.2KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Free
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
$8.99per month · free tier available
Free
$20per month · free tier available
€10per month · free tier available
Free tier
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Plans
Free Free
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Free FreePremium $20/moAdvanced $90/moMax $200/mo+1 more
Free FreePlus (Individual) €10/moPlus (Team) €20/moInstitutions Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
DocumentsWeb pages
Text
DocumentsText
DocumentsText
Output
Text
Text
DataText
Text
Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Categories
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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Research assistance
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Research papers analysis
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Academic paper interpretations
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Flashcards
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Research papers summaries
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Summaries
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Summarizing
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Academic papers decoding
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Citations
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Document summarization
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Literature analysis
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PDFs
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Paraphrasing
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Research papers drafting
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Scientific research
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Scientific research navigation
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Scientific writing
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Academic citation
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Academic papers simplification
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Literature interaction
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PDF analysis
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Papers translation
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