MaxKB records 169 monthly visits with -95.1% month-over-month growth and Free, Paid (self-hosted subscription) pricing. Semantic Scholar records 8,198,672 monthly visits with +5.8% growth and Free pricing.
Open-source RAG platform for building enterprise AI agents
A free, AI-powered academic search engine for 240M+ papers across every scientific field
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|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | maxkb.pro | semanticscholar.org |
| Pricing Model | Free, Paid (self-hosted subscription) | Free |
| Monthly Visits | 169 (169) | 8.2M (8,198,672) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | -3.26K (-95.1%) | +450.65K (+5.8%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (100%) | 🇺🇸 United States (22.9%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 67 | 1.88M |
| User Rating | 4.6 | 4.8 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
Open-source RAG platform for building enterprise AI agents
Upload documents or crawl web sources with automatic text splitting, vectorization, and retrieval to ground answers in your own knowledge.
Orchestrate multi-step AI processes with a function library and MCP tool-use for complex business logic.
Connect private models such as DeepSeek, Llama and Qwen or public APIs including OpenAI, Claude and Gemini.
Embed intelligent Q&A into existing business systems and third-party apps without writing code.
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.
Free / Open-sourceHigh-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
Free / Open-sourceHigh-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
The AI workspace where teams and agents get work done together
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.
Chat with 30+ leading AI models in one clean, fast workspace
Chat with 30+ leading AI models in one clean, fast workspace
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.
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.
Free / Open-sourceBuild, deploy, and govern production-ready agentic AI workflows
Free / Open-sourceBuild, deploy, and govern production-ready agentic AI workflows
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.
