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SciSpace

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Research workspace that searches, explains and compares academic papers and drafts the write-up with citations

academic searchpaper summarizationliterature reviewresearchFreemium · from $12/mo

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Pricing

Pricing model
Freemium
Paid options from
$12/mo
Billing
Monthly

Premium is $12/month billed annually ($144 a year) or $20 month-to-month, with 1,200 credits and 4 concurrent threads; Advanced is $70/month annually ($840) or $90 monthly and Max $160/month annually ($1,920) or $200 monthly, both marked unlimited. Teams run $15 to $175 per user per month on annual billing for 2 to 300 seats. Free sign-up exists but its limits are not stated on the pricing page; all plans carry a 24-hour money-back guarantee.

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Overview

About SciSpace

SciSpace, formerly Typeset, is a research workspace over an index it puts at more than 270 million papers. You can search the literature by question, open a paper and ask about any passage, build comparison tables across a set of studies, extract data, run a literature review, and then draft with an AI writer, paraphraser and citation generator; an AI detector and humaniser sit alongside, and a Chrome extension brings the explainer to PDFs elsewhere. Newer agent templates chain these steps for jobs such as grant searches or clinical data. The company says more than a million researchers use it. A free account exists; Premium is $12 a month billed annually or $20 monthly for 1,200 credits, with Advanced and Max tiers for unlimited use and per-seat Teams plans. The site challenges automated readers, and the legal pages render client-side, so the operating entity could not be read today.

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Last verified
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  • Pricing page plan data: Premium $20/month or $12/month billed annually ($144) with 1,200 credits; Advanced $90/month or $70/month annually ($840), unlimited; Max $200/month or $160/month annually ($1,920); Teams $25 per user/month or $15 annually for 2–300 seats; 24-hour money-back guarantee; 'Sign up for free' (15 October 2026)scispace.com ↗
  • Pricing page navigation and copy: Agent Gallery, Templates, Chat with PDF, Literature Review, AI Writer, Find Topics, Paraphraser, Citation Generator, Extract Data, AI Detector, AI Humanizer, Extension & Apps; '270M+ research papers'; '1 million+ researchers' (15 October 2026)scispace.com ↗
Fact check

Is SciSpace legit?

We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.

Domain registered
Nov 12, 2006 (19 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar Amazon Registrar, Inc., looked up Sep 6, 2026
TLS certificate
Issued by Amazon, valid until Apr 29, 2027Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 15, 2026
Last checked
Oct 15, 2026The site answered, but turned our crawler away
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SciSpace, IndiaOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026

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Editorial verdict

Pros & cons of SciSpace

medium confidence

SciSpace is the broadest of the paper-reading tools: search, explain, compare, extract, review and write all live in one account, which suits a student or early-career researcher who wants one subscription rather than four. The trade-off is depth: Elicit and Consensus are more careful about evidence quality, and the AI writer, paraphraser and humaniser push the product toward producing text rather than understanding it, which is where academic-integrity trouble starts. The free account is enough to judge the explainer; the $12 annual Premium is cheap, but credits run out quickly on heavy chat use.

Pros

  • Index of 270M+ papers with question-based search, explainers, comparison tables and data extraction in one workspace
  • Chrome extension explains PDFs wherever you read them
  • Free account to test the explainer, and Premium at $12 a month on annual billing
  • Agent templates chain search, review and extraction for recurring tasks such as grant or clinical lookups

Cons

  • Premium is credit-metered at 1,200 credits a month, and unlimited use starts at $70 a month annually
  • The AI writer, paraphraser and humaniser sit uneasily with academic-integrity policies
  • The site challenges automated readers and the terms render client-side, so the legal entity is not visible
  • Summaries can smooth over a paper's caveats; the source still has to be read for anything that matters

Best for

  • Students and early-career researchers who want search, reading help and writing aids in one place
  • Anyone building a first literature review or comparison table across a set of papers
  • Readers outside their field who need dense passages explained in plain language

Not for

  • Systematic reviewers who need transparent, reproducible evidence screening; Elicit or Consensus fit better
  • Institutions worried about generated text, since the paraphraser and humaniser invite misuse

Watch out: The headline $12 is an annual commitment of $144 billed at once; the monthly plan is $20, and the refund window is 24 hours.

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