ScienceOS vs Elicit vs Paperguide vs Semantic Scholar

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

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ScienceOS
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Competitor 1
Elicit
Competitor 2
Paperguide
Competitor 3
Semantic Scholar
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool ScienceOS
scienceos.ai
Researchers waste hours hunting through literature—piecing together fragments from different papers
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Competitor Elicit
elicit.org
Research assistant that reads the papers
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Competitor Paperguide
paperguide.ai
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Competitor Semantic Scholar
semanticscholar.org
AI-powered research discovery
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
64.9Kvisits/mo
9.2Kvisits/mo
262.6Kvisits/mo
6.6Mvisits/mo
MoM change
▼ 6.2%
▼ 37.4%
▲ 4.7%
▲ 11.2%
6-month growth
+1.2%
+0.1%
+44.6%
-24.2%
Global rank web
#464,304
#2,562,886
#182,104
#10,569
Avg. last 3 months
68.2K
12.3K
266.5K
6.4M
Bounce rate lower is better
39%
37%
44%
48%
Pages / visit
3.7
1.5
2.3
2.7
Visit duration
1m 37s
4s
1m 32s
1m 46s
Traffic sources
● Direct 98% · ● Mail 2%
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● Direct 80% · ● Referral 14%
● Direct 81% · ● Referral 17%
ScienceOSElicitPaperguideSemantic Scholar
02.2M4.4M6.6M8.7MScienceOS · 79.4KScienceOS · 75.1KScienceOS · 79.7KScienceOS · 64.1KScienceOS · 64.5KScienceOS · 56.4KScienceOS · 70.5KScienceOS · 69.2KScienceOS · 64.9KElicit · 7KElicit · 19KElicit · 17.3KElicit · 9.2KElicit · 4.5KElicit · 9.9KElicit · 13.1KElicit · 14.6KElicit · 9.2KPaperguide · 181KPaperguide · 215.1KPaperguide · 183.1KPaperguide · 181.6KPaperguide · 232.2KPaperguide · 282.6KPaperguide · 286.3KPaperguide · 250.7KPaperguide · 262.6KSemantic 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 · 6.6M1K10K100K1M10MScienceOS · 79.4KScienceOS · 75.1KScienceOS · 79.7KScienceOS · 64.1KScienceOS · 64.5KScienceOS · 56.4KScienceOS · 70.5KScienceOS · 69.2KScienceOS · 64.9KElicit · 7KElicit · 19KElicit · 17.3KElicit · 9.2KElicit · 4.5KElicit · 9.9KElicit · 13.1KElicit · 14.6KElicit · 9.2KPaperguide · 181KPaperguide · 215.1KPaperguide · 183.1KPaperguide · 181.6KPaperguide · 232.2KPaperguide · 282.6KPaperguide · 286.3KPaperguide · 250.7KPaperguide · 262.6KSemantic 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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Free
Starting price
€7.25per month · free tier available
$10per month · free tier available
$12per month · free tier available
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Plans
Free FreeAngel €7.25/moTeam €6/moInstitution Custom
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Free FreePlus $12/moPro $29/moEnterprise Custom
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Capabilities input → output
Input
DocumentsText
DocumentsText
DocumentsText
Text
Output
DataText
DataText
DataDocumentsText
Text
Skill level
Intermediate
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Tasks what each tool can do · 2 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Research
Research papers
Academic research
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Scientific literature exploration
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Research papers analysis
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Literature reviews
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Citations
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Research assistance
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Scientific q a
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Academic papers decoding
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PDF analysis
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Scientific research
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Scientific research navigation
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Academic paper interpretations
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Academic writing
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Literature analysis
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Medical research
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Network diagrams
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Research papers drafting
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Writing
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