Scite
Citation analysis showing supporting vs contrasting evidence.
why this verdict
Keep paying — OpenAI has not replaced it
OpenAI's version overlaps, but does not finish the search job, so this one still earns its $20/mo.
- A named launch, not a vibe named, unlinked
- AI literature summaries. OpenAI, October 31, 2024 — no announcement link recorded yet.
- How much of the job it covers not the job editorial call
- Parts of it. The job still needs the tool to get finished.
- Is there a free way to do it? yes
- 3 of 3 listed replacements have a usable free tier: Consensus, Elicit and Semantic Scholar.
- What the call is worth $240/yr
- $20/mo at the entry paid tier — $240 a year per seat.
- Threatened by
- OpenAI
- Since
- October 31, 2024
- List price
- $20/mo
- Per year
- $240
The backstory
Scite analyzes scientific citations, showing whether later papers support, contrast with or merely mention a given study, so researchers can judge how well a claim holds up. AI literature summaries can digest papers, but they can't fabricate this. Scite survived because its Smart Citations database is proprietary data, built by classifying millions of in-text citations, that a language model doesn't have and can't invent. The chatbot can summarize a paper; only Scite can tell you how the field actually cited and challenged it.
Escape hatches
AI search over research findings, free tier
consensus.app open_in_newAI research assistant for papers, free tier
elicit.com open_in_newFree scholarly search and citation data
semanticscholar.org open_in_new3 of 3 replacements have a usable free tier.