AskNews records 11,607 monthly visits with +97.3% month-over-month growth and Freemium, Paid, Contact for Pricing pricing. Semantic Scholar records 8,198,672 monthly visits with +5.8% growth and Free pricing.
Licensed news infrastructure and a real-time News API built for AI
A free, AI-powered academic search engine for 240M+ papers across every scientific field
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | asknews.app | semanticscholar.org |
| Pricing Model | Freemium, Paid, Contact for Pricing | Free |
| Monthly Visits | 11.61K (11,607) | 8.2M (8,198,672) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +5.73K (+97.3%) | +450.65K (+5.8%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (63.1%) | 🇺🇸 United States (22.9%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 4.67K | 1.88M |
| User Rating | 4.6 | 4.8 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
Licensed news infrastructure and a real-time News API built for AI
Query breaking news in under 100 ms or search archived coverage across years and decades through one consistent API.
A multi-step, self-learning agent that iterates, branches and verifies across paywalled news, the open web, X, Wikipedia and more for deep research questions.
Schedule monitoring of topics, companies and events, receive recurring reports, and follow how narratives evolve with analytics and change logs.
Each data point arrives with entities, geo-coordinates, sentiment, bias scores and key points, linked into a graph of relationships over time.
A free, AI-powered academic search engine for 240M+ papers across every scientific field
Search 241 million-plus publications from every scientific field using natural-language queries that match meaning rather than exact keywords.
Each indexed paper gets a one-sentence machine-generated TLDR so you can triage results before committing to reading the full text.
An augmented PDF reader that highlights citations, definitions, equations and figures inline, and shows which later papers cited the passage you are reading.
See how a paper was cited, whether citations were influential, and which references shaped the work — useful for literature reviews and citation chasing.
SpecialistBroader real-time web search capabilities with academic filters, but less specialized for deep bibliographic citation analysis than Semantic Scholar.
SpecialistBroader real-time web search capabilities with academic filters, but less specialized for deep bibliographic citation analysis than Semantic Scholar.
Synthesizes direct evidence-based answers from scientific papers, but has a less comprehensive raw database than Semantic Scholar.
Synthesizes direct evidence-based answers from scientific papers, but has a less comprehensive raw database than Semantic Scholar.
Offers an immersive AI reading and PDF analysis workspace, but is less focused on pure bibliographic search.
Offers an immersive AI reading and PDF analysis workspace, but is less focused on pure bibliographic search.
Excels at automated systematic review data extraction and evidence synthesis, but indexes a narrower slice of literature.
Excels at automated systematic review data extraction and evidence synthesis, but indexes a narrower slice of literature.
SpecialistWeb search API and crawler built for AI agents
SpecialistThe real-time web access layer for AI agents and deep research
SpecialistSearch and inference APIs that give AI models real-time web data
SpecialistSearch and inference APIs that give AI models real-time web data
SpecialistProvides advanced Smart Citations showing how papers support or dispute each other, but has a smaller overall index.
SpecialistProvides advanced Smart Citations showing how papers support or dispute each other, but has a smaller overall index.
SpecialistFeatures excellent visual citation collections and literature tracking recommendations, but lacks inline paper summarization features.
SpecialistFeatures excellent visual citation collections and literature tracking recommendations, but lacks inline paper summarization features.
SpecialistWeb data infrastructure for scraping, proxies, and AI-ready datasets
SpecialistWeb data infrastructure for scraping, proxies, and AI-ready datasets
SpecialistOffers superior visual graph mapping of academic paper connections, but lacks traditional keyword search and full-text reading tools.
SpecialistOffers superior visual graph mapping of academic paper connections, but lacks traditional keyword search and full-text reading tools.
AI-native workspace for literature reviews and auditable systematic reviews
AI-native workspace for literature reviews and auditable systematic reviews
