# SciSpace

> AI research platform for literature review and reading papers

SciSpace is a research platform that combines literature search, question answering over PDFs and writing tools. Its Literature Review tool answers questions from a repository of more than 270 million papers with cited sources, and Chat with PDF explains individual papers. Agents take on longer research tasks against a monthly credit allowance, and a Chrome extension and an iPhone and iPad app are also offered.

- **Category:** AI Research Tools
- **Made by:** PubGenius Inc.
- **Website:** https://scispace.com
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Browser extension
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 5, 2026

## Pricing

SciSpace has a free plan. Paid plans start at $12 per month, billed annually ($20 billed monthly).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Third-party listings report a free tier, but its current limits could not be read: SciSpace's site turned automated readers away, and the archived pricing data covers paid plans only.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Premium | $12 per month, billed annually ($144); $20 billed monthly | 1,200 credits a month and up to 4 concurrent tasks. |
| Teams (Premium) | $15 per user / month, billed annually ($180); $25 billed monthly | For 2 to 300 users, each with 1,200 credits a month and up to 4 concurrent tasks. |
| Advanced | $70 per month, billed annually ($840); $90 billed monthly | 10,000 credits a month and up to 8 concurrent tasks. |
| Teams (Advanced) | $75 per user / month, billed annually ($900); $100 billed monthly | For 2 to 300 users, each with 10,000 credits a month and up to 8 concurrent tasks. |
| Max | From $160 per month, billed annually ($1,920); from $200 billed monthly | Priced by credit tier, from 40,000 credits a month up to 300,000, with up to 16 concurrent tasks. |
| Teams (Max) | $175 per user / month, billed annually ($2,100); $220 billed monthly | For 2 to 300 users, each with 40,000 credits a month and up to 16 concurrent tasks. |

SciSpace's own pricing page could not be read; these figures come from https://web.archive.org/web/20260930061904/https://scispace.com/pricing on Oct 5, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with SciSpace before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Save 20% to 40% with annual billing** (Annual discount): Annual billing brings Premium from $20 to $12 a month (40% off), Advanced from $90 to $70 (22% off) and the entry Max tier from $200 to $160 (20% off). Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20260930061904/https://scispace.com/pricing

## Key features

- **Literature Review:** Ask a research question in plain language and get answers drawn from a repository of more than 270 million papers, each with references to its sources.
- **Chat with PDF:** Ask questions about a paper or PDF and get answers backed by citations that point to where in the source they came from.
- **SciSpace Agent and Biomedical Agent:** Agents take on research tasks and draw on the plan's monthly credits. Each plan also caps how many tasks run at once: 4 on Premium, 8 on Advanced and 16 on Max.
- **Writing and citation tools:** AI Writer, Paraphraser and AI Detector sit beside a Citation Generator that formats references in APA, MLA and more than 2,300 other styles.
- **Extract Data:** Pulls the summary, conclusions and findings out of several PDFs at once so papers can be compared side by side.
- **Chrome extension:** Explains highlighted text, math and tables on any web page or PDF, answers follow-up questions with citations and replies in 13 languages.

## Good for

- Students and researchers who want search, reading and writing tools in one place
- Getting plain-language explanations of dense papers, equations and tables
- Research teams of 2 to 300 people billed per user

## Worth knowing

- SciSpace's site blocked automated reading, so prices come from an Internet Archive copy of its pricing page captured on September 30, 2026.
- The limits of the free tier could not be confirmed on a SciSpace page.
- Paid plans meter usage in monthly credits: 1,200 on Premium, 10,000 on Advanced and 40,000 or more on Max.
- The mobile app is listed for iPhone and iPad; no Android app was found on Google Play (US) when checked.

**Tags:** Research, AI search, Citations, AI agents, Chat assistant

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## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 5, 2026:

- https://web.archive.org/web/20260930061904/https://scispace.com/pricing
- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/scispace/id6742434138
- https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/scispace-do-hours-of-rese/cipccbpjpemcnijhjcdjmkjhmhniiick
- https://aitoolsatlas.ai/tools/scispace/pricing

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