Connected Papers vs Semantic Scholar

Side-by-side comparison of Connected Papers and Semantic Scholar: pricing, features, API access, and community ratings.

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	Connected Papers Visualize and explore the landscape of academic research papers Visit	Semantic Scholar AI-powered academic search engine for scientific literature Visit
Category	Chat assistants	Chat assistants
Pricing	Freemium	Free
Starting price		Free
Free tier
Audience	All audiences	All audiences
API available
Open source
Self-hostable
Model provider		Allen Institute for AI (AI2)
Founded	2019	2015
Headquarters	Tel Aviv, Israel	Seattle, USA
Key strengths	·Visual graph-based paper discovery ·Identifies prior and derivative works ·Semantic Scholar data integration ·Fast literature mapping for new research areas	·AI-powered semantic search across 200M+ academic papers ·Free public API for programmatic access to paper metadata ·Citation graph and influence analysis ·Auto-generated TLDRs for rapid paper comprehension