Scite vs Paperguide vs ScienceOS vs Citely
Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.
Your tool
Scite
vs Scite
Competitor 1
Paperguide
Paperguide
Competitor 2
ScienceOS
ScienceOS
Competitor 3
Citely
CitelyCompare
4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Competitor
ScienceOS
ScienceOS
scienceos.ai
Researchers waste hours hunting through literature—piecing together fragments from different papers
Competitor
Citely
Citely
citely.ai
Academic citation fraud poses real problems for researchers who unknowingly reference fabricated papers
Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
700.2Kvisits/mo
262.6Kvisits/mo
64.9Kvisits/mo
62.9Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 1.8%
▲ 4.7%
▼ 6.2%
▲ 3.3%
6-month growth
-27.6%
+44.6%
+1.2%
+26.5%
Global rank web
#75,906
#182,104
#464,304
#561,691
Avg. last 3 months
716.7K
266.5K
68.2K
59.2K
Bounce rate lower is better
47%
44%
39%
37%
Pages / visit
2.9
2.3
3.7
2.2
Visit duration
2m 09s
1m 32s
1m 37s
24s
Traffic sources
● Direct 83% · ● Referral 14%
● Direct 80% · ● Referral 14%
● Direct 98% · ● Mail 2%
● Direct 77% · ● Referral 23%
ScitePaperguideScienceOSCitely
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
$20per month · free tier available
$12per month · free tier available
€7.25per month · free tier available
$9per month
Free tier
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API access
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Plans
Connect FreeBasic $20/moPro $50/mo
Free FreePlus $12/moPro $29/moEnterprise Custom
Free FreeAngel €7.25/moTeam €6/moInstitution Custom
Trial $9Monthly $19/moYearly $14/moBeliever $347
Capabilities input → output
Input
Text
DocumentsText
DocumentsText
Text
Output
Text
DataDocumentsText
DataText
Text
Skill level
Intermediate
Beginner-friendly
Intermediate
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core partial
Tasks covered
10
10
4
3
Citations
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Research
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Research papers
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Literature reviews
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Citation verification
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Academic citation
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Academic research
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Research papers analysis
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Academic paper evaluation
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PDF analysis
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Scientific literature exploration
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Academic writing
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Research papers drafting
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Research trends tracking
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Writing
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Rating
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Reviews
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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.