Scite vs CometAPI vs Citely

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

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Scite
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CometAPI
Competitor 2
Citely
Competitor 3
Suggested competitors for Scite: Consensus80% Elicit78% SciSpace76% ScholarAI72% Paperguide72% Semantic Scholar72% ScienceOS70% ResearchRabbit66%
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3 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Scite
scite.ai
Smart citations that show how papers are cited
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Competitor CometAPI
cometapi.com
CometAPI functions as an aggregation layer that sits between your application and hundreds of AI model providers
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Competitor Citely
citely.ai
Academic citation fraud poses real problems for researchers who unknowingly reference fabricated papers
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
700.2Kvisits/mo
302.3Kvisits/mo
62.9Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 1.8%
▲ 9.9%
▲ 3.3%
6-month growth
-27.6%
-16.5%
+26.5%
Global rank web
#75,906
#157,147
#561,691
Avg. last 3 months
716.7K
295.7K
59.2K
Bounce rate lower is better
47%
46%
37%
Pages / visit
2.9
2.9
2.2
Visit duration
2m 09s
38s
24s
Traffic sources
● Direct 83% · ● Referral 14%
● Direct 69% · ● Referral 30%
● Direct 77% · ● Referral 23%
SciteCometAPICitely
0263.3K526.6K789.9K1.1MScite · 983KScite · 874.9KScite · 885.4KScite · 840.8KScite · 967KScite · 1.1MScite · 1MScite · 762KScite · 687.8KScite · 700.2KCometAPI · 834.4KCometAPI · 619.7KCometAPI · 437.2KCometAPI · 362.2KCometAPI · 355.5KCometAPI · 362.7KCometAPI · 309.5KCometAPI · 275.2KCometAPI · 302.3KCitely · 52KCitely · 44.1KCitely · 49.7KCitely · 37.2KCitely · 50.1KCitely · 53.8KCitely · 60.8KCitely · 62.9K10K100K1M10MScite · 983KScite · 874.9KScite · 885.4KScite · 840.8KScite · 967KScite · 1.1MScite · 1MScite · 762KScite · 687.8KScite · 700.2KCometAPI · 834.4KCometAPI · 619.7KCometAPI · 437.2KCometAPI · 362.2KCometAPI · 355.5KCometAPI · 362.7KCometAPI · 309.5KCometAPI · 275.2KCometAPI · 302.3KCitely · 52KCitely · 44.1KCitely · 49.7KCitely · 37.2KCitely · 50.1KCitely · 53.8KCitely · 60.8KCitely · 62.9KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
$20per month · free tier available
$4per month · free tier available
$9per month
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Plans
Connect FreeBasic $20/moPro $50/mo
Free Trial FreePay-as-you-go Custom/usage-basedEnterprise Custom/mo
Trial $9Monthly $19/moYearly $14/moBeliever $347
Capabilities input → output
Input
Text
ImagesText
Text
Output
Text
ImagesTextVideo
Text
Skill level
Intermediate
Advanced
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Development & CodeAI API
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
10
6
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Academic citation
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Citation verification
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Citations
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Academic research
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Research
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Research papers
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APIs
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LLM gateway
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API integrations
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Academic paper evaluation
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Developer tools
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Literature reviews
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Research papers analysis
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Image generation
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Research trends tracking
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Video generation
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