SciSpace records 4,464,111 monthly visits with +8.6% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. Surf records 116,252 monthly visits with -18.9% growth and Free, Pro, Max, API credits pricing.
AI research platform for reading, understanding and writing scientific papers
Institution-grade crypto and equities intelligence, delivered through a chat-style AI analyst.
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | scispace.com | asksurf.ai |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Free, Pro, Max, API credits |
| Monthly Visits | 4.46M (4,464,111) | 116.25K (116,252) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +355.38K (+8.6%) | -27.18K (-18.9%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (13.2%) | 🇰🇷 South Korea (32.6%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 1.32M | 88.81K |
| User Rating | 4.6 | 4.2 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
AI research platform for reading, understanding and writing scientific papers
Open or upload a paper and ask questions, get plain-language explanations of highlighted passages, and pull out methods, results and limitations conversationally.
Search a large scholarly index spanning Google Scholar, PubMed and arXiv, then generate structured literature reviews and related-work sections from what you find.
An AI Writer for drafts, a paraphraser for academic tone, and a citation generator that formats references in popular styles.
Turn tables and results in a paper into structured data, and check whether a manuscript reads as AI-generated with a built-in detector.
Institution-grade crypto and equities intelligence, delivered through a chat-style AI analyst.
Ask questions about tokens, protocols, or equities in plain language and receive answers backed by visible sources rather than unsupported assertions.
Market prices, onchain events, SEC filings, and news are normalized into one structured layer so the model reasons over consistent inputs.
API, MCP server, CLI, and agent skills let teams wire Surf intelligence into their own agents, dashboards, and internal research workflows.
Purpose-built modules for tracking market-moving developments and for looking up structured context on projects and assets.
SpecialistOffers broad general reasoning and document upload capabilities, but lacks specialized academic indexing and citation databases.
SpecialistOffers broad general reasoning and document upload capabilities, but lacks specialized academic indexing and citation databases.
Free / Open-sourceProvides a massive free index of scholarly literature with citation graphs, but lacks built-in interactive paper reading assistants.
Free / Open-sourceProvides a massive free index of scholarly literature with citation graphs, but lacks built-in interactive paper reading assistants.
Provides evidence-based answers extracted directly from peer-reviewed papers, though less of an all-in-one reading workspace.
Provides evidence-based answers extracted directly from peer-reviewed papers, though less of an all-in-one reading workspace.
Stronger automated data extraction and systematic review synthesis, but less focused on interactive PDF annotation than SciSpace.
Stronger automated data extraction and systematic review synthesis, but less focused on interactive PDF annotation than SciSpace.
SpecialistFocuses heavily on assisted academic drafting and autocomplete, whereas SciSpace centers more on reading and analysis.
SpecialistFocuses heavily on assisted academic drafting and autocomplete, whereas SciSpace centers more on reading and analysis.
AI trading indicators, real-trade orderflow and charts in one platform
AI trading indicators, real-trade orderflow and charts in one platform
Global macro data and AI research platform for smarter economic decisions
Global macro data and AI research platform for smarter economic decisions
Excels at tracking citation contexts and how papers cite each other, but has less robust general PDF chat features.
Excels at tracking citation contexts and how papers cite each other, but has less robust general PDF chat features.
Streamlines literature searches and reference management like SciSpace, but with a distinct citation workflow.
Streamlines literature searches and reference management like SciSpace, but with a distinct citation workflow.
AI investing copilot for stock research, screening and market signals
AI investing copilot for stock research, screening and market signals
AI-driven market analysis for faster, data-backed investing decisions
AI-driven market analysis for faster, data-backed investing decisions
Options flow, dark pools and dealer gamma with an AI analyst built in
Options flow, dark pools and dealer gamma with an AI analyst built in
