SciSummary vs Scholarcy vs Sourcely vs Semantic Scholar

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

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SciSummary
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Scholarcy
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Semantic Scholar
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Your tool SciSummary
scisummary.com
SciSummary is an AI reading aid for scientific articles and research papers.
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Competitor Scholarcy
scholarcy.com
AI that reads papers so you can skim
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Competitor Sourcely
sourcely.net
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Competitor Semantic Scholar
semanticscholar.org
AI-powered research discovery
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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159Kvisits/mo
121.3Kvisits/mo
6.6Mvisits/mo
MoM change
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▼ 17.1%
▼ 17.6%
▲ 11.2%
6-month growth
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-44.5%
-27.7%
-24.2%
Global rank web
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#200,412
#330,988
#10,569
Avg. last 3 months
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183.7K
143.2K
6.4M
Bounce rate lower is better
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38%
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48%
Pages / visit
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3.3
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Visit duration
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54s
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Traffic sources
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● Direct 92% · ● Referral 5%
● Direct 63% · ● Referral 35%
● Direct 81% · ● Referral 17%
SciSummaryScholarcySourcelySemantic Scholar
02.2M4.4M6.6M8.7MScholarcy · 411.4KScholarcy · 312.2KScholarcy · 313.4KScholarcy · 279.1KScholarcy · 286.3KScholarcy · 328.9KScholarcy · 279.7KScholarcy · 200.4KScholarcy · 191.8KScholarcy · 159KSourcely · 173KSourcely · 157.2KSourcely · 167.7KSourcely · 167.8KSourcely · 202.7KSourcely · 169.2KSourcely · 161.1KSourcely · 147.1KSourcely · 121.3KSemantic 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 · 6.6M100K1M10MScholarcy · 411.4KScholarcy · 312.2KScholarcy · 313.4KScholarcy · 279.1KScholarcy · 286.3KScholarcy · 328.9KScholarcy · 279.7KScholarcy · 200.4KScholarcy · 191.8KScholarcy · 159KSourcely · 173KSourcely · 157.2KSourcely · 167.7KSourcely · 167.8KSourcely · 202.7KSourcely · 169.2KSourcely · 161.1KSourcely · 147.1KSourcely · 121.3KSemantic 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 · 6.6MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
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Starting price
$4per month
$8.99per month · free tier available
$19per month · free tier available
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Capabilities input → output
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Documents
DocumentsWeb pages
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Output
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Skill level
Beginner-friendly
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Categories
Productivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsWriting & ContentAI PDF+2 more
Research & AnalyticsWriting & ContentAI Research PapersAI Summarizer
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Tasks what each tool can do · 2 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Research papers
Research
Research papers summaries
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Academic research
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Literature reviews
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Summarizing
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Scientific literature exploration
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Article summaries
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