Semantic Scholar records 8,198,672 monthly visits with +5.8% month-over-month growth and Free pricing. Sider records 2,644,740 monthly visits with -10.6% growth and Freemium pricing.
A free, AI-powered academic search engine for 240M+ papers across every scientific field
AI sidebar and browser agent for reading, writing and research
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | semanticscholar.org | sider.ai |
| Pricing Model | Free | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 8.2M (8,198,672) | 2.64M (2,644,740) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +450.65K (+5.8%) | -314.2K (-10.6%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (22.9%) | 🇺🇸 United States (13.3%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 1.88M | 1.7M |
| User Rating | 4.8 | 4.5 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
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.
AI sidebar and browser agent for reading, writing and research
A persistent panel that reads the page you are on and answers follow-ups with GPT, Claude or Gemini without copying content into another tab.
Summarise long articles, PDFs and YouTube videos, extract key points, and ask detailed questions about the source material.
Translate webpages, PDFs and images, compare bilingual output side by side, and have content read aloud for review on the move.
Delegate multi-step tasks across real websites — price comparison, form filling, research and inbox triage — using your existing logged-in sessions.
SpecialistOpenAI's flagship multimodal assistant powered by GPT-6 and GPT-5.6 for reasoning, coding, and deep research.
SpecialistOpenAI's flagship multimodal assistant powered by GPT-6 and GPT-5.6 for reasoning, coding, and deep research.
SpecialistAnthropic's frontier AI workspace powered by Claude 5.5 for agentic coding, analysis, and nuanced writing.
SpecialistAnthropic's frontier AI workspace powered by Claude 5.5 for agentic coding, analysis, and nuanced writing.
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 a very similar browser sidebar experience with multiple AI models, but features slightly different pricing and workspace tools.
Offers a very similar browser sidebar experience with multiple AI models, but features slightly different pricing and workspace tools.
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.
Provides robust browser-based summarization and prompt assistance, but lacks some of Sider's deeply integrated multi-model chat UI features.
Provides robust browser-based summarization and prompt assistance, but lacks some of Sider's deeply integrated multi-model chat UI features.
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.
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.
Excels at advanced web automation and data extraction alongside chat, but has a steeper learning curve than Sider.
