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SciSummary
Columbus, Ohio, United States
What it is
SciSummary uses AI to help scientists, researchers, and students work through scientific papers. It structures individual paper summaries around the abstract, methods, results, and conclusion, and can combine multiple papers into a shared summary or compare them. Its research library supports folders and tags. Figure chat offers interpretations of p-values, confidence intervals, and effect sizes, while paper extraction pulls abstracts, figures, and references and highlights key findings.
The service is available on the web and through an API. Its bulk API takes PDFs, links, or full text and can handle hundreds of documents per request. Developers can use a REST API, official CLI, and SDK clients generated from its OpenAPI specification. An MCP server connects with Claude Desktop and ChatGPT for searching and analyzing scientific documents. SciSummary also handles webpage summaries and file uploads. There is no free plan; pricing starts at $4/mo (annual), with a 7-day trial.
For and against
For
- Structures summaries into four paper sections
- Compares papers and synthesizes multiple sources
- Organizes research with folders and tags
- Offers API, CLI, and generated SDK clients
- Includes a 7-day trial
Against
- No free plan
- Pricing starts at $4/mo (annual)
The verdict
SciSummary combines paper summaries, figure interpretations, research organization, and developer access. Its trial offers a way to explore the paid service before choosing a plan.
Who it suits
It suits researchers, scientists, and students who want help summarizing and comparing papers, organizing a research library, or analyzing figures. Developers can also use its API tools for document workflows.
Plans and prices
Student Plan
Unlimited summaries, figures and chat for first month
Read 14 Oct 2026 · scisummary.com
Free Trial
30,000 summary words · 5 AI-analyzed figures · 100 chat messages · unlimited article searches
Read 14 Oct 2026 · scisummary.com
Bulk Summarization API
$0.0037 per 1,000 tokens · pay as you go · PDFs, links or raw text · bulk requests
Read 14 Oct 2026 · scisummary.com
Pro (Monthly)
Unlimited summaries · unlimited figures · unlimited chat · 1,000 indexed documents for semantic search
Read 14 Oct 2026 · scisummary.com
Pro (Yearly)
Unlimited summaries · unlimited figures · unlimited chat · 1,000 indexed documents for semantic search
Read 14 Oct 2026 · scisummary.com
Student
Unlimited summaries, AI figure analysis, chat messages, article searches, and quick click import for 1 month · promo code STUDENT26
Read 8 Oct 2026 · scisummary.com
Pro Plan
Unlimited summaries, AI figure analysis, chat messages, article searches, and quick click import · 1,000 documents indexed for semantic search
Read 8 Oct 2026 · scisummary.com
On the record
- Academic paper extraction
- The site says SciSummary extracts abstracts, figures, and references and highlights key findings.scisummary.com · read 8 Oct 2026
- AI models
- Its tutorial says summaries combine GPT-4o, GPT-3.5, Claude and embedding models.scisummary.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- API
- A REST API at scisummary.com/api supports bulk summarization with bearer-token authentication.scisummary.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- API input formats
- The bulk API accepts PDFs, links, or full text and supports hundreds of documents in a request.scisummary.com · read 8 Oct 2026
- API specification
- The public OpenAPI 3.0 specification defines batch and request endpoints, schemas, operation IDs and standardized error envelopes.scisummary.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Audience
- SciSummary describes its intended users as scientists, researchers, and students seeking to speed up academic reading.scisummary.com · read 8 Oct 2026
- Browser extension
- The Chrome extension lets users right-click a PDF and add it to a SciSummary library folder.chromewebstore.google.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Bulk analysis
- It can synthesize multiple papers into one summary and compare papers using AI.scisummary.com · read 8 Oct 2026
- Citation styles
- The product supports APA, Chicago, MLA and Harvard citation formats and can generate reference lists from multiple documents.scisummary.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Compliance limitation
- The terms say the site is not tailored for HIPAA or FISMA requirements and must not be used where those rules apply.scisummary.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Developer access
- The REST API has an official CLI and supports generated SDK clients through its OpenAPI specification.scisummary.com · read 8 Oct 2026
- Document chat
- Chat answers are generated from the uploaded paper's content and exclude unrelated external information.scisummary.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Figure analysis
- Its figure chat feature offers interpretations of p-values, confidence intervals, and effect sizes.scisummary.com · read 8 Oct 2026
- Figure explanations
- Users can ask natural-language questions about figures and tables, with explanations tied to the paper context.scisummary.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Figure extraction
- SciSummary extracts tables, charts, graphs and diagrams from PDFs for review.scisummary.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Folders and tags
- The library supports unlimited folders, drag-and-drop organization, search and article tags.scisummary.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Folder synthesis
- Folders can be summarized in bulk or merged into a single synthesis, and users can chat with all folder articles.scisummary.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Inline citations
- Summaries and chat responses can link back to page numbers or source sections, and selected text can reveal its original location.scisummary.com · read 14 Oct 2026
