
A free, AI-powered academic search engine for 240M+ papers across every scientific field
A free, AI-powered academic search engine for 240M+ papers across every scientific field
ExplainPaper records 26,016 monthly visits with -39.3% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. OpenRead records 27,098 monthly visits with -51.6% growth and Freemium, Paid, Contact for Pricing pricing.
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| Official Domain | explainpaper.com | openread.academy |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Freemium, Paid, Contact for Pricing |
| Monthly Visits | 26.02K (26,016) | 27.1K (27,098) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | -16.81K (-39.3%) | -28.84K (-51.6%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (28.1%) | 🇮🇩 Indonesia (27.2%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 9.69K | 7.07K |
| User Rating | 4 | 4.3 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
Highlight dense research text and get plain-language explanations instantly
Select any confusing sentence or term and receive an immediate plain-language explanation that accounts for the rest of the paper.
Shift the reading level from beginner-friendly to expert-detail so the explanation matches your background.
Ask questions and get answers grounded in the document's actual content, with references back to the relevant sections.
Produce a smart outline, key-point extraction, and concept relationship views without reading the entire paper first.
AI research workspace for searching, reading and connecting papers
Search a corpus of hundreds of millions of papers by meaning, with new content indexed continuously from thousands of journals.
Ask questions of any paper and place multiple studies side by side to spot agreements, contradictions and the bigger picture.
A visual graph maps how papers and concepts connect, helping you find adjacent work you would otherwise miss.
Upload your own PDFs, capture reading notes, and organize everything in a single research workspace.

A free, AI-powered academic search engine for 240M+ papers across every scientific field
A free, AI-powered academic search engine for 240M+ papers across every scientific field

AI academic search engine for peer-reviewed science

AI research platform for reading, understanding and writing scientific papers
AI research platform for reading, understanding and writing scientific papers
The AI workspace where researchers read, write, and cite with every claim traceable to its source
The AI workspace where researchers read, write, and cite with every claim traceable to its source
Chat with any PDF, video, or website and get cited answers in seconds
AI answers grounded in 300M+ scholarly full texts
AI answers grounded in 300M+ scholarly full texts

Map the literature around the papers you love—free
Map the literature around the papers you love—free
Explore the academic literature as a visual graph of related papers
Explore the academic literature as a visual graph of related papers

Screen thousands of papers down to the studies that matter
Screen thousands of papers down to the studies that matter
AI-powered platform to read, write, and stay current with research

One AI agent for finding, reading and writing with real research
One AI agent for finding, reading and writing with real research
AI summaries and study guides for scientific papers
AI summaries and study guides for scientific papers