Sourcely vs Scholarcy vs Citely vs SciSpace

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

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Sourcely
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Scholarcy
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Citely
Competitor 3
SciSpace
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Sourcely
sourcely.net
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Competitor Scholarcy
scholarcy.com
AI that reads papers so you can skim
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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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Competitor SciSpace
scispace.com
Make sense of research papers
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
121.3Kvisits/mo
159Kvisits/mo
62.9Kvisits/mo
44.2Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▼ 17.6%
▼ 17.1%
▲ 3.3%
▼ 98.8%
6-month growth
-27.7%
-44.5%
+26.5%
-99.2%
Global rank web
#330,988
#200,412
#561,691
#17,447
Avg. last 3 months
143.2K
183.7K
59.2K
2.7M
Bounce rate lower is better
39%
38%
37%
56%
Pages / visit
2.2
3.3
2.2
2.5
Visit duration
33s
54s
24s
2m 13s
Traffic sources
● Direct 63% · ● Referral 35%
● Direct 92% · ● Referral 5%
● Direct 77% · ● Referral 23%
● Direct 83% · ● Referral 15%
SourcelyScholarcyCitelySciSpace
01.5M2.9M4.4M5.9MSourcely · 173KSourcely · 157.2KSourcely · 167.7KSourcely · 167.8KSourcely · 202.7KSourcely · 169.2KSourcely · 161.1KSourcely · 147.1KSourcely · 121.3KScholarcy · 411.4KScholarcy · 312.2KScholarcy · 313.4KScholarcy · 279.1KScholarcy · 286.3KScholarcy · 328.9KScholarcy · 279.7KScholarcy · 200.4KScholarcy · 191.8KScholarcy · 159KCitely · 52KCitely · 44.1KCitely · 49.7KCitely · 37.2KCitely · 50.1KCitely · 53.8KCitely · 60.8KCitely · 62.9KSciSpace · 5.9MSciSpace · 5MSciSpace · 4.8MSciSpace · 5.1MSciSpace · 5.8MSciSpace · 5.6MSciSpace · 5MSciSpace · 4.2MSciSpace · 3.8MSciSpace · 44.2K10K100K1M10MSourcely · 173KSourcely · 157.2KSourcely · 167.7KSourcely · 167.8KSourcely · 202.7KSourcely · 169.2KSourcely · 161.1KSourcely · 147.1KSourcely · 121.3KScholarcy · 411.4KScholarcy · 312.2KScholarcy · 313.4KScholarcy · 279.1KScholarcy · 286.3KScholarcy · 328.9KScholarcy · 279.7KScholarcy · 200.4KScholarcy · 191.8KScholarcy · 159KCitely · 52KCitely · 44.1KCitely · 49.7KCitely · 37.2KCitely · 50.1KCitely · 53.8KCitely · 60.8KCitely · 62.9KSciSpace · 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
$19per month · free tier available
$8.99per month · free tier available
$9per month
$20per month · free tier available
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Plans
Free FreeUltra $19/moMax $39/mo
Free Free
Trial $9Monthly $19/moYearly $14/moBeliever $347
Free FreePremium $20/moAdvanced $90/moMax $200/mo+1 more
Capabilities input → output
Input
Text
DocumentsWeb pages
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DocumentsText
Output
Text
Text
Text
DataText
Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Research & AnalyticsWriting & ContentAI Research PapersAI Summarizer
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Productivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI PDFAI Research Papers+1 more
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Research papers
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Citation verification
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Literature reviews
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Document summarization
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Research
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Summarizing
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Citation formatting
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