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scite
Scite helps researchers search scientific literature, evaluate citation context, and trace whether findings are supported, contradicted, or mentioned.
Scite is a research platform with an AI Assistant, full-text search, Smart Citations, citation graphs, and Collections for organizing papers. It covers scholarly articles and also provides access to patents, clinical trials, grants, preprints, and datasets.
Researchers, students, academics, and research teams use it for literature reviews, evidence checking, and citation analysis. The free Connect plan works inside AI tools but does not include Scite Assistant or Search; API access is listed in the Pro plan.
Features
- Ask research questions with answers grounded in scientific literature
- Search inside the full text of scholarly articles
- Show whether later research supports, contrasts with, or mentions findings
- Trace references and citing papers with the citation_graph MCP tool
- Organize and monitor papers in Collections
- Search patents, clinical trials, grants, preprints, and datasets
- Connect with ChatGPT, Claude, Zotero, and MCP-compatible tools
- Access programmatic data through the Scite API
Use cases
- Review literature and identify relevant papers
- Check whether later studies support or challenge a finding
- Trace how a method or theory developed across papers
- Monitor citations and new research in a topic area
- Verify evidence and citation context before writing
- Connect citation data to an AI research workflow
Pros
Cons
Latest updates
- October 2026 Release Notes
Collections can now hold your files, and your AI assistant can save its work there too.
- September 2026 Release Notes
Scite MCP gained tools for citation evidence, full text, and references. Collections hold notes alongside papers and can be shared by link.
- Citation Surfing with Scite MCP
Scite MCP includes a citation graph tool that lets AI agents like ChatGPT and Claude explore how papers are connected through citations.
- August 2026 Release Notes
Connect Scite to AI assistants, try Scite, and choose a plan.
- July 2026 Release Notes
Stay on top of research and get more visibility and control over using Scite across AI tools.
Capabilities
- Searches papers — “Scite Search lets you match on citation statements extracted from the full text — surfacing relevant findings, methods, and claims that never appear in an abstract.” source
- Cites sources — “Unlike general-purpose AI tools, every answer is drawn from peer-reviewed literature and linked to its source.” source
- API — “API access is included with Pro and Team.” source
Get it
Pricing
- Starting price
- $12/mo
- Prices checked
- 2026-11-06
Basic
- $12 / month Billed yearly
- Full Assistant & Search access
- 250 MCP credits/month
- Article Smart Citation reports
- Collections up to 1,000 papers
- Citation alerts & dashboards
Pro
- $40 / month Billed yearly
- Everything in Basic
- API access
- $60 API credit included, limited time only
- 2,500 MCP credits/month
- Collections up to 10,000 papers
- Patent, clinical trial, & grant datasets
Enterprise
Price on request
- Everything in Pro
- Unlimited users with pooled usage
- Access via SSO, IP, domain, or email
- Collections up to 50,000 papers
- Regulatory & safety datasets (FAERS, MAUDE, 510(k), & more)
- Extended usage reports