Scite vs Citely vs Paperguide vs ScienceOS
Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.
Your tool
Scite
vs Scite
Competitor 1
Citely
Citely
Competitor 2
Paperguide
Paperguide
Competitor 3
ScienceOS
ScienceOSCompare
4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Competitor
Citely
Citely
citely.ai
Academic citation fraud poses real problems for researchers who unknowingly reference fabricated papers
Competitor
ScienceOS
ScienceOS
scienceos.ai
Researchers waste hours hunting through literature—piecing together fragments from different papers
Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
700.2Kvisits/mo
62.9Kvisits/mo
262.6Kvisits/mo
64.9Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 1.8%
▲ 3.3%
▲ 4.7%
▼ 6.2%
6-month growth
-27.6%
+26.5%
+44.6%
+1.2%
Global rank web
#75,906
#561,691
#182,104
#464,304
Avg. last 3 months
716.7K
59.2K
266.5K
68.2K
Bounce rate lower is better
47%
37%
44%
39%
Pages / visit
2.9
2.2
2.3
3.7
Visit duration
2m 09s
24s
1m 32s
1m 37s
Traffic sources
● Direct 83% · ● Referral 14%
● Direct 77% · ● Referral 23%
● Direct 80% · ● Referral 14%
● Direct 98% · ● Mail 2%
SciteCitelyPaperguideScienceOS
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
$20per month · free tier available
$9per month
$12per month · free tier available
€7.25per month · free tier available
Free tier
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Plans
Connect FreeBasic $20/moPro $50/mo
Trial $9Monthly $19/moYearly $14/moBeliever $347
Free FreePlus $12/moPro $29/moEnterprise Custom
Free FreeAngel €7.25/moTeam €6/moInstitution Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
Text
Text
DocumentsText
DocumentsText
Output
Text
Text
DataDocumentsText
DataText
Skill level
Intermediate
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Intermediate
Categories
Tasks what each tool can do · 3 shared · core partial
Tasks covered
10
6
10
8
Citations
Research
Research papers
Academic research
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Academic citation
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Citation verification
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Literature reviews
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Research papers analysis
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Scientific literature exploration
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Scientific q a
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Academic paper evaluation
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PDF analysis
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Academic writing
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Literature analysis
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Network diagrams
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Research papers drafting
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Research trends tracking
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Writing
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Prompts
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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.