ScienceOS vs Semantic Scholar vs Elicit vs SciSpace

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

Your tool
ScienceOS
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Competitor 1
Semantic Scholar
Competitor 2
Elicit
Competitor 3
SciSpace
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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
Competitor Semantic Scholar
semanticscholar.org
AI-powered research discovery
Competitor Elicit
elicit.org
Research assistant that reads the papers
Competitor SciSpace
scispace.com
Make sense of research papers
Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
64.9Kvisits/mo
6.6Mvisits/mo
9.2Kvisits/mo
44.2Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▼ 6.2%
▲ 11.2%
▼ 37.4%
▼ 98.8%
6-month growth
+1.2%
-24.2%
+0.1%
-99.2%
Global rank web
#464,304
#10,569
#2,562,886
#17,447
Avg. last 3 months
68.2K
6.4M
12.3K
2.7M
Bounce rate lower is better
39%
48%
37%
56%
Pages / visit
3.7
2.7
1.5
2.5
Visit duration
1m 37s
1m 46s
4s
2m 13s
Traffic sources
● Direct 98% · ● Mail 2%
● Direct 81% · ● Referral 17%
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● Direct 83% · ● Referral 15%
ScienceOSSemantic ScholarElicitSciSpace
02.2M4.4M6.6M8.7MScienceOS · 79.4KScienceOS · 75.1KScienceOS · 79.7KScienceOS · 64.1KScienceOS · 64.5KScienceOS · 56.4KScienceOS · 70.5KScienceOS · 69.2KScienceOS · 64.9KSemantic 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 · 6.6MElicit · 7KElicit · 19KElicit · 17.3KElicit · 9.2KElicit · 4.5KElicit · 9.9KElicit · 13.1KElicit · 14.6KElicit · 9.2KSciSpace · 5.9MSciSpace · 5MSciSpace · 4.8MSciSpace · 5.1MSciSpace · 5.8MSciSpace · 5.6MSciSpace · 5MSciSpace · 4.2MSciSpace · 3.8MSciSpace · 44.2K1K10K100K1M10MScienceOS · 79.4KScienceOS · 75.1KScienceOS · 79.7KScienceOS · 64.1KScienceOS · 64.5KScienceOS · 56.4KScienceOS · 70.5KScienceOS · 69.2KScienceOS · 64.9KSemantic 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 · 6.6MElicit · 7KElicit · 19KElicit · 17.3KElicit · 9.2KElicit · 4.5KElicit · 9.9KElicit · 13.1KElicit · 14.6KElicit · 9.2KSciSpace · 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
€7.25per month · free tier available
Free
$10per month · free tier available
$20per month · free tier available
Free tier
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Plans
Free FreeAngel €7.25/moTeam €6/moInstitution Custom
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Capabilities input → output
Input
DocumentsText
Text
DocumentsText
DocumentsText
Output
DataText
Text
DataText
DataText
Skill level
Intermediate
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
Research
Literature reviews
Scientific literature exploration
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Academic papers decoding
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Academic research
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PDF analysis
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PDFs
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Research papers 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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Traffic figures are third-party estimates for the tool's own domain; tools sharing a domain with a bigger product are not counted. Pricing is captured from each tool's site and may lag.