SciSpace
FreemiumAI research copilot for reading, understanding, and discovering 270M+ scientific papers with inline explanations and smart search.
What is SciSpace?
SciSpace (formerly Typeset) is an all-in-one AI research platform that helps students and researchers discover, read, and understand scientific literature. Its AI Copilot allows users to highlight any complex passage in a research paper and instantly receive a plain-language explanation, making it a powerful tool for navigating unfamiliar disciplines or dense methodologies. SciSpace searches over 270 million papers and supports structured literature review workflows with customizable comparison tables, citation generation, a paraphrasing tool, and an AI detection feature. The February 2025 addition of Deep Review brings multi-source literature analysis with improved precision. SciSpace also includes a browser extension for reading any paper online with AI assistance. From undergraduates struggling with their first journal article to senior researchers streamlining multi-paper comparisons, SciSpace democratizes access to scientific knowledge through contextual AI assistance.
Key Features
How to Use SciSpace
✅ Best For
- Undergraduate and postgraduate students in STEM who struggle with dense academic language and need instant, plain-language explanations of methods, statistics, and terminology within papers.
- Independent researchers and clinicians in fields adjacent to their specialty who need to quickly understand literature outside their core expertise without hiring a research assistant.
- Science communicators, journalists, and policy researchers who need to accurately interpret complex scientific findings without the time to read every paper end-to-end.
❌ Not For
- Researchers who need systematic review automation with PRISMA compliance and full extraction audit trails, as SciSpace is better suited for reading assistance and discovery than rigorous systematic workflows.
- Users who require a reference manager with syncing across desktop and mobile citation managers like Zotero or Mendeley, which SciSpace does not fully replace.
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Pricing
- ✓Limited AI queries
- ✓basic search
- ✓browser extension
- ✓Unlimited AI chat
- ✓Deep Review
- ✓advanced search
- ✓all features
- ✓Institutional licensing
- ✓volume access
Prompts to Try
Explain the methodology section of this paper in simple terms
Find 10 recent papers comparing supervised and unsupervised learning approaches
What is the difference between p-value and confidence interval as used in this study?
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