ScienceOS vs Sourcely vs Paperguide 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
Sourcely
Competitor 2
Paperguide
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 Sourcely
sourcely.net
Competitor Paperguide
paperguide.ai
Competitor SciSpace
scispace.com
Make sense of research papers
Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
64.9Kvisits/mo
121.3Kvisits/mo
262.6Kvisits/mo
44.2Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▼ 6.2%
▼ 17.6%
▲ 4.7%
▼ 98.8%
6-month growth
+1.2%
-27.7%
+44.6%
-99.2%
Global rank web
#464,304
#330,988
#182,104
#17,447
Avg. last 3 months
68.2K
143.2K
266.5K
2.7M
Bounce rate lower is better
39%
39%
44%
56%
Pages / visit
3.7
2.2
2.3
2.5
Visit duration
1m 37s
33s
1m 32s
2m 13s
Traffic sources
● Direct 98% · ● Mail 2%
● Direct 63% · ● Referral 35%
● Direct 80% · ● Referral 14%
● Direct 83% · ● Referral 15%
ScienceOSSourcelyPaperguideSciSpace
01.5M2.9M4.4M5.9MScienceOS · 79.4KScienceOS · 75.1KScienceOS · 79.7KScienceOS · 64.1KScienceOS · 64.5KScienceOS · 56.4KScienceOS · 70.5KScienceOS · 69.2KScienceOS · 64.9KSourcely · 173KSourcely · 157.2KSourcely · 167.7KSourcely · 167.8KSourcely · 202.7KSourcely · 169.2KSourcely · 161.1KSourcely · 147.1KSourcely · 121.3KPaperguide · 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 · 44.2K10K100K1M10MScienceOS · 79.4KScienceOS · 75.1KScienceOS · 79.7KScienceOS · 64.1KScienceOS · 64.5KScienceOS · 56.4KScienceOS · 70.5KScienceOS · 69.2KScienceOS · 64.9KSourcely · 173KSourcely · 157.2KSourcely · 167.7KSourcely · 167.8KSourcely · 202.7KSourcely · 169.2KSourcely · 161.1KSourcely · 147.1KSourcely · 121.3KPaperguide · 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 · 44.2KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
€7.25per month · free tier available
$19per month · free tier available
$12per month · free tier available
$20per month · free tier available
Free tier
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Plans
Free FreeAngel €7.25/moTeam €6/moInstitution Custom
Free FreeUltra $19/moMax $39/mo
Free FreePlus $12/moPro $29/moEnterprise Custom
Free FreePremium $20/moAdvanced $90/moMax $200/mo+1 more
Capabilities input → output
Input
DocumentsText
Text
DocumentsText
DocumentsText
Output
DataText
Text
DataDocumentsText
DataText
Skill level
Intermediate
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Research
Academic research
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Research papers
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Citations
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Literature reviews
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Research papers analysis
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Scientific literature exploration
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PDF analysis
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Research papers drafting
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Research assistance
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Scientific q a
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Academic citation
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Citation formatting
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PDFs
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Research papers summaries
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Scientific writing
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Academic q a
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Academic writing
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Literature analysis
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Network diagrams
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Writing
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