ScienceOS vs You.com vs Consensus vs Paperguide

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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You.com
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Consensus
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Paperguide
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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 You.com
you.com
Search rebuilt for AI
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Competitor Consensus
consensus.app
Scientific answers from peer-reviewed research
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Competitor Paperguide
paperguide.ai
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
64.9Kvisits/mo
971Kvisits/mo
5.8Mvisits/mo
262.6Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▼ 6.2%
▼ 3.5%
▲ 3.5%
▲ 4.7%
6-month growth
+1.2%
-32.4%
+14.4%
+44.6%
Global rank web
#464,304
#56,627
#9,859
#182,104
Avg. last 3 months
68.2K
1M
5.5M
266.5K
Bounce rate lower is better
39%
47%
43%
44%
Pages / visit
3.7
2.7
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Visit duration
1m 37s
1m 44s
3m 56s
1m 32s
Traffic sources
● Direct 98% · ● Mail 2%
● Direct 93% · ● Referral 4%
● Direct 84% · ● Referral 14%
● Direct 80% · ● Referral 14%
ScienceOSYou.comConsensusPaperguide
01.5M2.9M4.4M5.9MScienceOS · 79.4KScienceOS · 75.1KScienceOS · 79.7KScienceOS · 64.1KScienceOS · 64.5KScienceOS · 56.4KScienceOS · 70.5KScienceOS · 69.2KScienceOS · 64.9KYou.com · 1.8MYou.com · 1.5MYou.com · 1.6MYou.com · 1.5MYou.com · 1.4MYou.com · 1.4MYou.com · 1.3MYou.com · 1.1MYou.com · 1MYou.com · 971KConsensus · 4.4MConsensus · 4.1MConsensus · 3.9MConsensus · 4MConsensus · 5.1MConsensus · 5.9MConsensus · 5.7MConsensus · 5MConsensus · 5.6MConsensus · 5.8MPaperguide · 181KPaperguide · 215.1KPaperguide · 183.1KPaperguide · 181.6KPaperguide · 232.2KPaperguide · 282.6KPaperguide · 286.3KPaperguide · 250.7KPaperguide · 262.6K10K100K1M10MScienceOS · 79.4KScienceOS · 75.1KScienceOS · 79.7KScienceOS · 64.1KScienceOS · 64.5KScienceOS · 56.4KScienceOS · 70.5KScienceOS · 69.2KScienceOS · 64.9KYou.com · 1.8MYou.com · 1.5MYou.com · 1.6MYou.com · 1.5MYou.com · 1.4MYou.com · 1.4MYou.com · 1.3MYou.com · 1.1MYou.com · 1MYou.com · 971KConsensus · 4.4MConsensus · 4.1MConsensus · 3.9MConsensus · 4MConsensus · 5.1MConsensus · 5.9MConsensus · 5.7MConsensus · 5MConsensus · 5.6MConsensus · 5.8MPaperguide · 181KPaperguide · 215.1KPaperguide · 183.1KPaperguide · 181.6KPaperguide · 232.2KPaperguide · 282.6KPaperguide · 286.3KPaperguide · 250.7KPaperguide · 262.6KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
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Starting price
€7.25per month · free tier available
$1per month · free tier available
$8.99per month · free tier available
$12per month · free tier available
Free tier
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Free FreeAngel €7.25/moTeam €6/moInstitution Custom
Free FreeWeb Search API $5Contents API $1Answer API $5+2 more
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Free FreePlus $12/moPro $29/moEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
DocumentsText
TextWeb pages
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DocumentsText
Output
DataText
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Text
DataDocumentsText
Skill level
Intermediate
Beginner-friendly
Intermediate
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Chatbots & CompanionsDevelopment & CodeProductivity & OfficeResearch & Analytics+5 more
Productivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool+1 more
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Research
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Literature reviews
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Academic research
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Scientific literature exploration
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AI search
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Medical research
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PDF analysis
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Research papers analysis
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Research papers summaries
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Literature analysis
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Network diagrams
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Research papers drafting
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Web scraping
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