Scite

Research platform with citation-backed answers and tools for examining how scientific papers support or dispute claims.

Search a claim, review citation context, and read the underlying papers before drawing a conclusion.

Access and pricing: Basic is paid, advertised at $20/month billed yearly, with a seven-day trial. Access, collections, and integration credits vary by plan.

What it does well

Based on Scite's pricing page, Basic includes full Assistant and Search access, Smart Citation reports, collections up to 1,000 papers, and citation alerts and dashboards. The distinctive idea is citation context: seeing how later papers cite a study rather than only counting citations.

Who gets the most from it

Researchers, students and reviewers who want to check whether a claim is supported or disputed in the literature. Pro suits people building on the data programmatically, since it adds API access, 2,500 MCP credits a month, 10,000-paper collections and patent, clinical trial and grant datasets.

Limits to check before you commit

There is no free tier on the pricing page; the 7-day trial on Basic and Pro is the only free option, and you are enrolled automatically afterwards unless you cancel. Basic is listed at $12 a month billed yearly and Pro at $40. Enterprise is custom, and API options beyond Pro go through sales. Read the underlying papers before drawing conclusions from any citation summary.