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Litmaps vs Semantic Scholar
Litmaps or Semantic Scholar? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.
In short
- Both: Searches papers, Exports references
- Only Semantic Scholar states: Cites sources, Summaries, API
Litmaps
Litmaps helps researchers find, map, visualize, and monitor academic papers through citation networks.
Plans
Free
Free
- Basic Search
- Up to 20 inputs
- 2 Litmaps
- 100 articles per Map
Pro
- $10* / month
- $12.50 / month
- $120 / year
- Weekly / configurable
- Advanced Search
- Unlimited inputs
- Unlimited articles
- Unlimited Litmaps
Litmaps Enterprise
Price on request
Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Searches papers — “Search for articles in our catalogue of 270+ million papers.” source
- Exports references — “Sync with your Zotero account” source
Semantic Scholar
Semantic Scholar helps researchers search, understand, save, and monitor scientific papers with AI-assisted tools.
Plans
Free
Free
- Search over 214 million papers
- TLDR summaries for ~60M papers
- Highly Influential Citations
- Personal library with folders and exports
- AI-powered Research Feeds and alerts
- Free Academic Graph API with rate limits
Prices checked 2026-09-25 by web search.
Capabilities
- Searches papers — “Search over 214 million papers from all fields of science, with filters such as journals and conferences, authors, publication types, and date range.” source
- Cites sources — “Get AI-generated answers to your questions along with supporting statements from the paper.” source
- Summaries — “TLDRs are super-short summaries of the main objective and results of a paper, generated using expert background knowledge and NLP techniques, available for nearly 60 million papers in computer science, biology, and medicine.” source
- Exports references — “You can also create public folders and easily share them with collaborators, who can copy the folder to their own library in one click.” source
- API — “The Semantic Scholar REST API allows you to find and explore scientific publication data about authors, papers, citations, venues, and more.” source