CiteTrue records 43,073 monthly visits with -13.9% month-over-month growth and Free pricing. Scite records 841,974 monthly visits with +1.1% growth and Free Trial, Contact for Pricing pricing.
Free AI citation checker that catches fake and hallucinated references
AI answers grounded in 300M+ scholarly full texts
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|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | citetrue.com | scite.ai |
| Pricing Model | Free | Free Trial, Contact for Pricing |
| Monthly Visits | 43.07K (43,073) | 841.97K (841,974) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | -6.96K (-13.9%) | +8.94K (+1.1%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (36.1%) | 🇮🇩 Indonesia (13.3%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 9.55K | 379.18K |
| User Rating | 4.1 | 4.6 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
Free AI citation checker that catches fake and hallucinated references
Paste a reference list and verify every citation against real academic databases, with clear flags for not-found and mismatched entries.
Paste a paragraph or claim and get genuine, peer-reviewed sources that support it.
Enter a topic and receive a draft section where each sentence is tied to an actual reference.
Rewrite AI-generated drafts into prose that reads like a person wrote it.
AI answers grounded in 300M+ scholarly full texts
Ask a research question and get an answer assembled from the scientific literature, with every claim linked to its originating paper and sentence.
Search more than 300 million articles, preprints, books, patents and datasets using full text rather than abstracts alone.
See at a glance whether later work supported, contrasted with, or mentioned a paper, claim, author, journal or institution.
Run Scite inside ChatGPT, Claude and other MCP-compatible assistants, or tap citation data through the Zotero plugin and browser extension.
SpecialistSearches the live web broadly with citations rather than restricting queries strictly to peer-reviewed scholarly databases like Scite.
SpecialistSearches the live web broadly with citations rather than restricting queries strictly to peer-reviewed scholarly databases like Scite.
AI content detection and a full writing toolkit in one place
AI content detection and a full writing toolkit in one place
AI detection and writing verification built for schools and editors
Free / Open-sourceProvides a massive free index of academic literature and citations, but lacks Scite's conversational AI Q&A and smart citation analysis.
Free / Open-sourceProvides a massive free index of academic literature and citations, but lacks Scite's conversational AI Q&A and smart citation analysis.
Academic proofreading, plagiarism checking and AI-powered writing tools in one place
Academic proofreading, plagiarism checking and AI-powered writing tools in one place
Focuses strictly on peer-reviewed scientific literature to provide evidence-based answers, but lacks Scite's specific Smart Citations context tracking.
Focuses strictly on peer-reviewed scientific literature to provide evidence-based answers, but lacks Scite's specific Smart Citations context tracking.
Offers a powerful workspace for reading and analyzing PDFs, but lacks Scite's rigorous context-aware citation reliability checking.
Offers a powerful workspace for reading and analyzing PDFs, but lacks Scite's rigorous context-aware citation reliability checking.
Detect, humanize and verify AI content in one place
Detect, humanize and verify AI content in one place
Excels at extracting structured data and automating systematic reviews from academic papers, but is less focused on citation context.
Excels at extracting structured data and automating systematic reviews from academic papers, but is less focused on citation context.
SpecialistBlends academic search with AI writing assistance and text completion, but focuses more on drafting than Scite's citation analysis.
SpecialistBlends academic search with AI writing assistance and text completion, but focuses more on drafting than Scite's citation analysis.
Multilingual AI detector with sentence-level insight
Multilingual AI detector with sentence-level insight
SpecialistProvides visual literature mapping and paper discovery features, but does not offer Scite's direct conversational AI Q&A synthesis.
SpecialistProvides visual literature mapping and paper discovery features, but does not offer Scite's direct conversational AI Q&A synthesis.
