Scite vs Elicit vs ScholarAI vs SciSpace

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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Elicit
Competitor 2
ScholarAI
Competitor 3
SciSpace
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Scite
scite.ai
Smart citations that show how papers are cited
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Competitor Elicit
elicit.org
Research assistant that reads the papers
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Competitor ScholarAI
scholarai.io
Research in conversations
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Competitor SciSpace
scispace.com
Make sense of research papers
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
700.2Kvisits/mo
9.2Kvisits/mo
106.2Kvisits/mo
44.2Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 1.8%
▼ 37.4%
▼ 21.7%
▼ 98.8%
6-month growth
-27.6%
+0.1%
-22.5%
-99.2%
Global rank web
#75,906
#2,562,886
#323,702
#17,447
Avg. last 3 months
716.7K
12.3K
124.1K
2.7M
Bounce rate lower is better
47%
37%
37%
56%
Pages / visit
2.9
1.5
1.9
2.5
Visit duration
2m 09s
4s
28s
2m 13s
Traffic sources
● Direct 83% · ● Referral 14%
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● Direct 64% · ● Referral 36%
● Direct 83% · ● Referral 15%
SciteElicitScholarAISciSpace
01.5M2.9M4.4M5.9MScite · 983KScite · 874.9KScite · 885.4KScite · 840.8KScite · 967KScite · 1.1MScite · 1MScite · 762KScite · 687.8KScite · 700.2KElicit · 7KElicit · 19KElicit · 17.3KElicit · 9.2KElicit · 4.5KElicit · 9.9KElicit · 13.1KElicit · 14.6KElicit · 9.2KScholarAI · 181.3KScholarAI · 142.6KScholarAI · 175.6KScholarAI · 132.3KScholarAI · 137KScholarAI · 146.3KScholarAI · 156.2KScholarAI · 130.6KScholarAI · 135.6KScholarAI · 106.2KSciSpace · 5.9MSciSpace · 5MSciSpace · 4.8MSciSpace · 5.1MSciSpace · 5.8MSciSpace · 5.6MSciSpace · 5MSciSpace · 4.2MSciSpace · 3.8MSciSpace · 44.2K1K10K100K1M10MScite · 983KScite · 874.9KScite · 885.4KScite · 840.8KScite · 967KScite · 1.1MScite · 1MScite · 762KScite · 687.8KScite · 700.2KElicit · 7KElicit · 19KElicit · 17.3KElicit · 9.2KElicit · 4.5KElicit · 9.9KElicit · 13.1KElicit · 14.6KElicit · 9.2KScholarAI · 181.3KScholarAI · 142.6KScholarAI · 175.6KScholarAI · 132.3KScholarAI · 137KScholarAI · 146.3KScholarAI · 156.2KScholarAI · 130.6KScholarAI · 135.6KScholarAI · 106.2KSciSpace · 5.9MSciSpace · 5MSciSpace · 4.8MSciSpace · 5.1MSciSpace · 5.8MSciSpace · 5.6MSciSpace · 5MSciSpace · 4.2MSciSpace · 3.8MSciSpace · 44.2KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
$20per month · free tier available
$10per month · free tier available
$9.99per month · free tier available
$20per month · free tier available
Free tier
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Plans
Connect FreeBasic $20/moPro $50/mo
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Free CustomBasic $9.99/moPremium $18.99/moTeams Custom
Free FreePremium $20/moAdvanced $90/moMax $200/mo+1 more
Capabilities input → output
Input
Text
DocumentsText
DocumentsText
DocumentsText
Output
Text
DataText
Text
DataText
Skill level
Intermediate
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Productivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI PDFAI Research Papers+1 more
Tasks what each tool can do · 2 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Research papers
Research
Literature reviews
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Citations
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Academic citation
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Citation verification
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Academic paper evaluation
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Academic research
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PDFs
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Research papers analysis
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Research trends tracking
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