Scite.ai

Scite is an AI research platform built around Smart Citations, which show whether later papers support, contrast or simply mention a cited finding. Scite says it has indexed more than 1.6 billion citations and covers more than 300 million scholarly sources, including articles, preprints, books, patents, clinical trials, grants and datasets, with full text supplied through agreements with more than 44 publishers including Wiley and SAGE. Scite is now part of Research Solutions and says it serves more than 2 million users. It suits researchers, students and research teams who need to judge how well a finding holds up in later literature and to ground AI answers in real papers.

The Scite Assistant answers research questions from the literature and links each claim to the sentence in the paper it came from. Search runs across full text rather than abstracts only, Smart Citation reports cover papers, journals, authors, institutions and funders, and Scite also offers a Reference Check tool. Collections, citation alerts and dashboards track papers over time, and Collections can also hold notes and uploaded files and be shared by public link. A Zotero plugin, a browser extension, an API, connections to an institution's own holdings and an embeddable Scite Badge are available. A rebuilt Assistant, previewed for individual accounts in November 2026, also searches clinical trials, drug labels, adverse event reports, medical device data, patents and grants depending on the plan, adds a grey literature mode on Pro, and lets users pick the model.

Scite publishes an official MCP server that connects ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot and other MCP-compatible tools to Smart Citations and full-text literature, with OAuth sign-in and support for an institution's own holdings. Scite reports more than 32 million uses. Since October 2026 its tools also return the text of citing statements, read permitted full text page by page, format bibliographies, keep screening records for systematic reviews, and save notes and files to a user's Collections. MCP use needs a free trial, a paid plan or an Enterprise license and is metered in monthly MCP credits.

Basic is $12/mo billed annually, or $20 a month billed monthly, with full Assistant and Search access, 250 MCP credits a month, Smart Citation reports, collections of up to 1,000 papers, and alerts. Pro is $40 a month billed yearly or $50 monthly and adds API access, 2,500 MCP credits a month, collections of up to 10,000 papers, and patent, clinical trial and grant datasets. Teams of 2 to 20 buy Pro by the seat at the same price, with shared collections and team usage analytics, paid from day one with no trial. Enterprise is priced on request for universities and organizations and adds unlimited users with pooled usage, access by SSO, IP address, domain or email, collections of up to 50,000 papers, and regulatory and safety datasets including FAERS, MAUDE and FDA 510(k). New individual subscribers get a 7-day free trial, and student and academic discounts are available. Scite's terms and privacy policy say it does not use customer data to train, fine-tune or improve AI systems.

Scite checks how research has been cited rather than running open-ended literature searches or building reviews. Researchers who want an AI assistant to search papers and extract data can look at Elicit, and those who want deep literature search that follows citation trails can look at Undermind. Those who want a quick yes-or-no read of the research on a question can look at Consensus, and those who want free scholarly search can look at Semantic Scholar.

Current state Q4 2026: Scite's plans are now Basic and Pro for individuals, Pro seats for teams of 2 to 20, and Enterprise for universities and organizations, with MCP access metered by plan. G2 shows 27 reviews at 4.7 out of 5.