ScienceOS vs Paperguide vs SciSpace vs Elicit

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
Paperguide
Competitor 2
SciSpace
Competitor 3
Elicit
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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 Paperguide
paperguide.ai
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Competitor SciSpace
scispace.com
Make sense of research papers
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Competitor Elicit
elicit.org
Research assistant that reads the papers
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
64.9Kvisits/mo
262.6Kvisits/mo
44.2Kvisits/mo
9.2Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▼ 6.2%
▲ 4.7%
▼ 98.8%
▼ 37.4%
6-month growth
+1.2%
+44.6%
-99.2%
+0.1%
Global rank web
#464,304
#182,104
#17,447
#2,562,886
Avg. last 3 months
68.2K
266.5K
2.7M
12.3K
Bounce rate lower is better
39%
44%
56%
37%
Pages / visit
3.7
2.3
2.5
1.5
Visit duration
1m 37s
1m 32s
2m 13s
4s
Traffic sources
● Direct 98% · ● Mail 2%
● Direct 80% · ● Referral 14%
● Direct 83% · ● Referral 15%
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ScienceOSPaperguideSciSpaceElicit
01.5M2.9M4.4M5.9MScienceOS · 79.4KScienceOS · 75.1KScienceOS · 79.7KScienceOS · 64.1KScienceOS · 64.5KScienceOS · 56.4KScienceOS · 70.5KScienceOS · 69.2KScienceOS · 64.9KPaperguide · 181KPaperguide · 215.1KPaperguide · 183.1KPaperguide · 181.6KPaperguide · 232.2KPaperguide · 282.6KPaperguide · 286.3KPaperguide · 250.7KPaperguide · 262.6KSciSpace · 5.9MSciSpace · 5MSciSpace · 4.8MSciSpace · 5.1MSciSpace · 5.8MSciSpace · 5.6MSciSpace · 5MSciSpace · 4.2MSciSpace · 3.8MSciSpace · 44.2KElicit · 7KElicit · 19KElicit · 17.3KElicit · 9.2KElicit · 4.5KElicit · 9.9KElicit · 13.1KElicit · 14.6KElicit · 9.2K1K10K100K1M10MScienceOS · 79.4KScienceOS · 75.1KScienceOS · 79.7KScienceOS · 64.1KScienceOS · 64.5KScienceOS · 56.4KScienceOS · 70.5KScienceOS · 69.2KScienceOS · 64.9KPaperguide · 181KPaperguide · 215.1KPaperguide · 183.1KPaperguide · 181.6KPaperguide · 232.2KPaperguide · 282.6KPaperguide · 286.3KPaperguide · 250.7KPaperguide · 262.6KSciSpace · 5.9MSciSpace · 5MSciSpace · 4.8MSciSpace · 5.1MSciSpace · 5.8MSciSpace · 5.6MSciSpace · 5MSciSpace · 4.2MSciSpace · 3.8MSciSpace · 44.2KElicit · 7KElicit · 19KElicit · 17.3KElicit · 9.2KElicit · 4.5KElicit · 9.9KElicit · 13.1KElicit · 14.6KElicit · 9.2KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
€7.25per month · free tier available
$12per month · free tier available
$20per month · free tier available
$10per month · free tier available
Free tier
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Plans
Free FreeAngel €7.25/moTeam €6/moInstitution Custom
Free FreePlus $12/moPro $29/moEnterprise Custom
Free FreePremium $20/moAdvanced $90/moMax $200/mo+1 more
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Capabilities input → output
Input
TextDocuments
TextDocuments
TextDocuments
DocumentsText
Output
TextData
TextDocumentsData
DataText
DataText
Skill level
Intermediate
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Productivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI PDFAI Research Papers+1 more
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Tasks what each tool can do · 3 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Research papers
Research
Literature reviews
Academic research
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PDF analysis
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Research papers analysis
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Scientific literature exploration
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Academic writing
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Research papers drafting
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Writing
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