Scite

What it does

Scite takes a research question or a paper as input and returns answers and search results drawn from scholarly literature, including full-text articles, preprints, books, patents, clinical trials, grants, and datasets. Its AI Assistant returns answers with links back to the specific sentence in the specific paper they came from, so claims can be checked directly.

People use Scite to see how later research has treated a paper, claim, method, journal, author, or funder. Smart Citations classify citing work as supporting, contrasting, or simply mentioning a finding, which helps assess whether evidence is strong, contested, or uncertain. Scite also runs inside Claude, ChatGPT, and other MCP-compatible assistants, plugs into Zotero, and offers a browser extension for citation badges.

Scite suits researchers, students and academic teams reviewing literature or checking the standing of a finding. The Basic subscription includes its Assistant, search and citation reports; Pro adds API access and broader data and credit allowances. A seven-day trial is offered, with separate institutional arrangements. Smart Citations classify how later papers discuss earlier work; they do not independently establish whether a study is correct. Researchers should open the linked passages and assess the methods, relevance and quality of the underlying evidence.

What it can do

• Ask research questions and receive answers grounded in scholarly literature with sentence-level links to source papers
• Full-text citation search beyond abstracts across articles, preprints, books, patents, and datasets
• Smart Citations showing whether later research supports, contrasts, or mentions a paper or claim
• Collections for organizing up to 1,000 papers on Basic, 10,000 on Pro, and 50,000 on Enterprise
• Citation alerts and dashboards on Basic
• Patent, clinical trial, and grant datasets on Pro

Works with

• Claude
• ChatGPT
• Zotero
• MCP-compatible assistants
• Browser extension

Example workflows

Checking a finding before citing it

Illustrative example. Input: a paper or claim. Steps: open its Smart Citation report and review citing papers classified as supporting or contrasting. Output: a view of how later research has treated the finding.

Literature review with grounded answers

Illustrative example. Input: a research question. Steps: ask the AI Assistant and follow the sentence-level links to source papers. Output: an answer with linked supporting passages to verify.

Before you choose

• Smart Citations classify how citing papers relate to a finding; they are not an independent quality rating of the cited work.
• MCP credits and API access depend on plan: Basic includes 250 MCP credits per month, while Pro includes API access and 2,500 MCP credits per month.

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Get started

Start a 7-day free trial or purchase a subscription from the pricing page.

1. Choose either the 7-day free trial or a paid plan on the pricing page.
2. Create an account when prompted during signup.
3. Connect Zotero, a browser extension, or an MCP-compatible assistant if you want Scite inside your existing workflow.

Basic is shown at $12/month equivalent billed yearly, with 250 MCP credits/month. Pro is $40/month equivalent billed yearly, with API access and 2,500 MCP credits/month. Currency code and monthly-billed alternatives require confirmation. The $60 API credit promotion is temporary. Enterprise is custom.

7-day free trial.

Source: scite.ai/checkout, checked 29 Oct 2026. Prices can change; check before you buy.

Sources for this overview

Product pages, documentation, and pricing checked 29 Oct 2026. Each source supports part of the overview; availability and prices can change.

• Scite Pricing ↗scite.ai
• AI for Research | Scite ↗scite.ai
• Research Solutions Announces Acquisition of scite ↗www.researchsolutions.com

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