Scite vs Defapi

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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DDefapi
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Suggested competitors for Scite: Consensus80% Elicit78% SciSpace76% Semantic Scholar72% ScholarAI72% Paperguide72% ScienceOS70% Citely66%
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Your tool Scite
scite.ai
Smart citations that show how papers are cited
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Competitor DDefapi
defapi.org
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
700.2Kvisits/mo
2.4Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 1.8%
▼ 42.6%
6-month growth
-27.6%
-86.2%
Global rank web
#75,906
#4,650,820
Avg. last 3 months
716.7K
4.8K
Bounce rate lower is better
47%
36%
Pages / visit
2.9
1.4
Visit duration
2m 09s
7s
Traffic sources
● Direct 83% · ● Referral 14%
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SciteDefapi
0263.3K526.6K789.9K1.1MScite · 983KScite · 874.9KScite · 885.4KScite · 840.8KScite · 967KScite · 1.1MScite · 1MScite · 762KScite · 687.8KScite · 700.2KDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4K1K10K100K1M10MScite · 983KScite · 874.9KScite · 885.4KScite · 840.8KScite · 967KScite · 1.1MScite · 1MScite · 762KScite · 687.8KScite · 700.2KDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Paid
Starting price
$20per month · free tier available
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API access
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Plans
Connect FreeBasic $20/moPro $50/mo
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview $1/$6/per requestClaude Sonnet 4.6 $1.5/$7.5/per requestClaude Opus 4.6 $2.5/$12.5/per requestSora 2 Stable $0.175+/per request+2 more
Capabilities input → output
Input
Text
AudioImagesText
Output
Text
AudioImagesText
Skill level
Intermediate
Advanced
Categories
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Development & CodeAI API
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
10
4
API integrations
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APIs
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Academic citation
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Citation verification
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Citations
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API management
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Academic paper evaluation
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Academic research
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Literature reviews
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Research
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Research papers
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Research papers analysis
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API security
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Research trends tracking
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