SciSpace vs Keenious vs Sourcely vs Paperguide

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

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SciSpace
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Paperguide
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool SciSpace
scispace.com
Make sense of research papers
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Competitor Keenious
keenious.com
Keenious is a research companion that finds published academic literature related to the text you are working on.
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Competitor Sourcely
sourcely.net
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Competitor Paperguide
paperguide.ai
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
44.2Kvisits/mo
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121.3Kvisits/mo
262.6Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▼ 98.8%
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▼ 17.6%
▲ 4.7%
6-month growth
-99.2%
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-27.7%
+44.6%
Global rank web
#17,447
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#330,988
#182,104
Avg. last 3 months
2.7M
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143.2K
266.5K
Bounce rate lower is better
56%
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39%
44%
Pages / visit
2.5
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2.2
2.3
Visit duration
2m 13s
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33s
1m 32s
Traffic sources
● Direct 83% · ● Referral 15%
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● Direct 63% · ● Referral 35%
● Direct 80% · ● Referral 14%
SciSpaceKeeniousSourcelyPaperguide
01.5M2.9M4.4M5.9MSciSpace · 5.9MSciSpace · 5MSciSpace · 4.8MSciSpace · 5.1MSciSpace · 5.8MSciSpace · 5.6MSciSpace · 5MSciSpace · 4.2MSciSpace · 3.8MSciSpace · 44.2KSourcely · 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 · 262.6K10K100K1M10MSciSpace · 5.9MSciSpace · 5MSciSpace · 4.8MSciSpace · 5.1MSciSpace · 5.8MSciSpace · 5.6MSciSpace · 5MSciSpace · 4.2MSciSpace · 3.8MSciSpace · 44.2KSourcely · 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 · 262.6KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
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Starting price
$20per month · free tier available
€10per month · free tier available
$19per month · free tier available
$12per month · free tier available
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Plans
Free FreePremium $20/moAdvanced $90/moMax $200/mo+1 more
Free FreePlus (Individual) €10/moPlus (Team) €20/moInstitutions Custom
Free FreeUltra $19/moMax $39/mo
Free FreePlus $12/moPro $29/moEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
DocumentsText
DocumentsText
Text
DocumentsText
Output
DataText
Text
Text
DataDocumentsText
Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Productivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI PDFAI Research Papers+1 more
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Tasks what each tool can do · 4 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Academic research
Research papers
Research
Literature reviews
Citations
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Scientific literature exploration
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Research papers analysis
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Academic citation
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Research papers drafting
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Research assistance
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Citation formatting
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Literature analysis
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PDFs
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Paraphrasing
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Research papers summaries
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Scientific writing
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Academic papers simplification
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Literature interaction
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PDF analysis
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Writing
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