Decision
Paper discovery, PDF reading and literature-table preparation
- Choose it when
- Students exploring a topic who want paper search and PDF questions in the same workspace
- Researchers considering a literature table, with time to check each extracted field against the paper
- Skip it when
- You need a reproducible systematic-review search and expect this dossier to establish that SciSpace meets your protocol
- You cannot upload unpublished or sensitive work until training, retention and processing terms are fully checked
- Cost
- List prices checked 13 Oct 2026: Premium $20/month or $12/month billed annually; Advanced $90/month or $70/month billed annually; Max $200/month or $160/month billed annually.
- Privacy
- SciSpace's help article dated 4 Mar 2025 says uploaded PDFs are private and are not used to train its AI models, for both free and paid users; rechecked 13 Oct 2026.
What these labels mean
- Editorial fit
- 0–100 desk score for research-workflow fit. Not stars, not a benchmark.
- Evidence level
- How close the desk got: self-run, hands-on, synthesized, or vendor claim.
- Dossier depth
- Flagship, Solid, Lightweight, and Draft describe how finished the page is — not which tool is best.
- Verification date
- When pricing or privacy was last opened at the source. Not a re-score of the whole dossier.
- Benchmark status
- Pending means no relevant first-party test is published yet. It is not a negative score.
Open the glossary · Read the methodology
SciSpace is a tool in the VerdictPal Research assistant set: Paper search, PDF chat, literature tables and writing tools in one web workspace, with credit-metered Agent tasks; citation reliability and the practical free-tier limits still need a desk trial. It scores 38 out of 100 on editorial fit.
Role: Paper discovery, PDF reading and literature-table preparationCategory: Research assistantSynthesized
SciSpace at a glance, with the date each field was checked.| Field | Value |
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| Editorial fit | 38 out of 100 |
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| Dossier status | Draft |
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| Set | Research assistant |
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| Role in a workflow | Paper discovery, PDF reading and literature-table preparation |
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| Pricing | Premium (monthly) $20/mo · Premium (annual) $144/yr · Advanced (monthly) $90/mo · Advanced (annual) $840/yr · Max (monthly) $200/mo · Max (annual) $1,920/yr · Enterprise Custom |
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| Training on your data | SciSpace's help article dated 4 Mar 2025 says uploaded PDFs are private and are not used to train its AI models, for free and paid users; rechecked 13 Oct 2026. This covers Library PDFs, not a verified rule for prompts, chats or Agent outputs. The policy was unreadable in the 11 Oct shell pass; a 13 Oct text fetch does not replace the pending browser reconciliation. No blanket no-training guarantee or verified training opt-out is asserted. |
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| Last verified | 2026-10-13 |
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Public facts · vendor & repo
List prices and pay-as-you-go entry points we can cite without running our own bench. Each tile links to a source when possible.
Limits & product surface
Non-price vendor claims — multipliers, caps, and API scope. Detailed matrices live in subscription and SDK sections below.
- Uploaded-PDF training
- Help article dated 4 Mar 2025 says no model training on uploaded PDFs, for free and paid users. Broader input rules remain open.PDF privacy help ↗
How it works · agent loop
The public positioning for this product — the loop we score against on VerdictPal.
01Define the question and the upload boundary
Write your research question and inclusion criteria. Start with public papers you have permission to upload; do not put a confidential thesis or patient material into an unverified data workflow.
Run a controlled 20-paper extraction
Use the same paper set and fields as the Elicit comparison. Build a hand-coded reference table first, then compare SciSpace's fields and source passages. This is a proposed task, not a completed trial.
Verify the bibliography and the claim
Check titles, authors and DOIs independently, then read the passage supporting each claim. Record unsupported interpretations separately from references that do not exist; do not collapse both into an invented accuracy score.
Check credits before committing
Log the Agent balance before and after the task and any pause or upgrade prompt. Compare the completed artifact, correction effort and actual limits with Elicit or Consensus, not just the subscription price.