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SciSpace Copilot
SciSpace Copilot explains, summarizes, and answers questions about research papers and web content, now presented as Chat with PDF.
SciSpace Copilot helps students, researchers, and other readers understand scientific literature. Users can upload PDFs, highlight text, ask questions, generate section summaries, follow citation links, and get explanations of equations, tables, and technical language.
The maker now presents the product as SciSpace Chat with PDF and describes it as formerly Copilot. A Chrome extension extends explanations and summaries to webpages. A free tier is available; the official pricing page did not display plan prices during this review.
Features
- Answers questions about uploaded PDFs
- Provides citation-linked answers from PDF sections
- Summarizes PDF sections and selected text
- Explains highlighted technical language
- Explains equations and tables in PDFs
- Recommends related papers
- Supports interaction in 75+ languages
- Offers a Chrome extension for webpages
Use cases
- Summarize a research paper before deciding whether to read it
- Explain unfamiliar terms, methods, or conclusions
- Ask follow-up questions while reading a PDF
- Interpret equations, tables, and figures in scientific papers
- Review articles on publisher and repository websites
- Organize reading with notes and saved research
Pros
Cons
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Capabilities
- Searches papers — “you can simply search for the paper or topic you want to look up to get started.” source
- Cites sources — “Get answers backed by citations from specific sections of the PDF” source
- Reads PDFs — “Upload any PDF to SciSpace Chat PDF, ask a question” source
- Summaries — “Get detailed section-wise summary for your PDF file” source
- Extracts data — “You can also crop tables for an overview of the data.” source
- Tutoring — “Glean more insights by breaking equations down step-by-step and making sense of their implications.” source
- Many languages — “Supports 75+ languages, making it accessible for users worldwide” source
Pricing
- Starting price
- $8/user/mo
- Prices checked
- 2026-10-26
- Read
- by web search
Basic
Free
- 100 credits per month for SciSpace Agent usage
- Limited features across tools
Premium
- $12 /month billed annually
- $20 /month billed monthly
- 1,200 monthly credits
- Pro Model Access
- Unlimited Chat with PDF, Literature Reviews, AI Detections, AI Humanizations
- Up to 4 Parallel Agent Chats
- Biomedical Agent Access
Advanced
- $70 /month billed annually
- $90 /month billed monthly
- Unlimited monthly usage (fair use)
- Pro & Expert Model Access
- Generate Verified Report
- Up to 8 Parallel Agent Chats
- Everything in Premium
Max
- $160 /month billed annually
- $200 /month billed monthly
- Unlimited monthly usage (fair use)
- Everything in Advanced
- Up to 16 Parallel Agent Chats
- Priority support & early feature access
Teams
- $8 per user, per month billed annually
- All Advanced features plus admin-managed access
- Shared credit pools, SSO/SCIM, consolidated billing
SciSpace Enterprise
Price on request
- All Advanced features plus admin-managed access, shared credit pools, SSO/SCIM, consolidated billing, dedicated support, and customizable in