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[Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated August 26th, 2026 # Reviews of Scispace Ease of use 4.3 Customer Service 4.3 ## Pros and Cons in Reviews PK Prabhpreet K Research ScholarResearch, Self-employedUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “What stands out most is its AI-powered research assistance, which streamlines tasks such as literature review, citation management, and content generation.“ May 30, 2025 EP Efthimios P ProfessorHigher Education, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “Slow, Opaque credit consumpion, without the option to predict the final cost for a simple task, misleading compensation policy (within 24 hour of my registration and realizing the rate at which the credits were consumed, I asked to cancel my subscription and take full refund, but they refused it, because I had consumed over 300 credits... (which is rediculous, since this was exactly the sign for me that the app was useless, since it has very high consumption rate of credits.“ August 13, 2025 PK Prabhpreet K Research ScholarResearch, Self-employedUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “Moreover, the SciSpace team's commitment to continuous learning and improvement ensures that the platform stays up-to-date, providing users with the latest tools and resources to enhance their research endeavors.“ May 30, 2025 SA Shalbbya A ResearcherE-Learning, Self-employedUsed the software for: 6-12 months. “Sometimes the website gets slow and finding menus and options takes a while.“ September 12, 2025 MC Mike C Associate ProfessorResearch, 1,001 - 5,000 employeesUsed the software for: 6-12 months. “Again, it's not perfect but I like that it provides access or links to actual articles that you can then search, to ensure that it's not "hallucinating" false, nonexistent papers, like some other AI engines.“ June 2, 2025 AC Alfie C teacherEducation Management, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “The citation formats and structure suggestions also don’t match the requirements of Chinese-language academic journals.“ May 25, 2025 GN Giridharan N Assistant ProfessorEducation Management, 201 - 500 employeesUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “SciSpace has been a useful AI-powered tool for my academic research and writing, helping me efficiently review literature and manage citations.“ June 12, 2025 sm seth m naWriting and Editing, Self-employedUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “the ask questions feature for articles/ clarify questions are, at times, super vague and not very helpful. “ May 13, 2025 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 80 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Toribio F. Proffesor Education Management Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Scispace baby it's good and nice tododo" January 21, 2026 5.0 Excellent for conducting research and reviewing the literature. It is also useful for searching for various references. Pros It is useful for the exact sciences, and the depth of the research is ideal. Another great thing is the recognition of topics that have not yet been researched. Cons Sometimes I felt that it had few export options, also that smart writing tended to be monothematic. Review Source CS Christopher S. Associate Professor Higher Education Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Revolutionary and Unique Platform for Academic Research" May 28, 2025 5.0 Scispace has helped to streamline, organize, and energize my academic research. It not only allows me to begin refining my own research perspectives, but it also suggests helpful alternatives that I have not already considered. Scispace doesn't do the work for you, but it certainly gives you a significant boost to productivity and quality of work product. This platform is head and shoulders above other AI platforms catering to academic researchers. Pros Scispace is truly an unbelievably helpful service for academics and researchers to wade into the vast amounts of existing literature and be able to start making sense of it all. There are so many helpful features for a reasonable price. AND customer service is incredibly responsive, polite, friendly, and helpful! Cons The lack of existing tutorial to help with the abundance of features and capabilities that the platform offers. It can be overwhelming until you begin to play around with all of the things that are available to help search, organize, and utilize the literature. Switched from [scite](https://www.capterra.com/p/231963/scite/) Scispace is above and beyond scite in terms of user interface, overall aesthetics, features, capabilities, and quality of results produced. Review Source Saud K. Professor Research Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Not for hard science or Engineering." January 6, 2026 1.0 Frustrating and credit burnout with no outcomes. Bad support. In my field, microfluidics, it was totally a waste of time. The worst thing is that the AI agent can process the full PDF in your library. Pros Chatting with papers. I assume that writing and AI detection must work ok, as in all other AI tools. Cons Almost everything else. The software is still not smart enough to deal with hard science fields. The literature review keeps breaking your inclusions and exclusions for no obvious reason. The AI agent will let you into a maze to burn your credits (5500), delivering nothing. I use the first three days in my billing period on things that do not require intelligence, with outcomes that you can have better results with using ChatGPT. Their support is AI-generated and designed to get on your nerves and to drive you crazy. To be fair, it could suit research related to social sciences. If you are in the hard sciences or engineering, it is not ready yet. Review Source SB Sedi B. Student Education Management Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "very Good!" September 12, 2025 4.0 While writing my thesis, SciSpace helped me a lot to manage all the articles and that was kind of student course management. In addition I could classify the articles according to the subjects or other indicators, which helped me a lot and made it a value for money. Pros Time-consuming to read a pile of articles, and actually user-friendly and ease of use. the library helped me a lot to classify the articles. and the suggested articles from the SciSpace were very helpful. Cons I sometimes couldn't find something in articles with the help of SciSpace, while it was there. so it made it a bit unreliable to use it alone. Switched from [ChatGPT](https://www.capterra.com/p/10009334/ChatGPT/) I found some features that I didn't find them at that time and my friend suggested this app Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Undergraduate Student Education Management Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Even a skeptist could easily trust scispace" May 10, 2025 5.0 very beneficial and impactful for each publication, research, and assignment i did Pros the comprehensive feature that ease my effort to do research and other assignment Cons personally, the expensive price, BUT they do facilitate many options that is worth it Review Source EP Efthimios P. Professor Higher Education Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Scispace. An overestimated application with excessive and opaque charges" August 13, 2025 1.0 Slow, Opaque credit consumpion, without the option to predict the final cost for a simple task, misleading compensation policy (within 24 hour of my registration and realizing the rate at which the credits were consumed, I asked to cancel my subscription and take full refund, but they refused it, because I had consumed over 300 credits... (which is rediculous, since this was exactly the sign for me that the app was useless, since it has very high consumption rate of credits. More importantly... I have to notice, that the answer of the app after consuming from my one and first task this amount of credits.. was that it could not answer... the question....) Pros The potential and not the actual performance. I had read numerous good reviews for the app, which forced me to test it. My experience was dissapointing when compared with general purpose AI tools and taking into account the cost for everyday research use. Cons Value for money relationship. Unclear and very high consumption of credits for even simple tasks, which makes the app useless for everyday research needs (at least in the Premium Plan that I have used) Switched from [Elicit](https://www.capterra.com/p/10016202/Elicit/)[ChatGPT](https://www.capterra.com/p/10009334/ChatGPT/) I was searching for more detailed / precise answers Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Research Assistant E-Learning Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Graduate student user for Scispace" January 20, 2026 5.0 Beneficial application for reading and understanding papers,s but as you know, the AI can make a mistake and the user should be familiar with text. Pros Value for Money - Content Creation: Reading and understanding papers is made easy and useful with this application. Cons Writing Assistant - Sometimes, a WritingAssistantst makes a funny mistake, which you need to double-check the text. Review Source Bill B. President Packaging and Containers Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Scispace is my new superpower." April 24, 2026 5.0 It is the perfect product for my work and learning and doing research. I find it invaluable for my work. Pros The accuracy has been amazing. I have been using it for the last 6 months and I am very happy with the quality of search and agentic performance. Cons The file storage and library needs to be a bit more intuitive but I am getting used to it. All I need is more flexibility in setting it up. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Director Publishing Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "One of the best serious research AI agents" February 6, 2026 5.0 Amazing and can't get enough of it. Very different experience than normal Chat Bots; not like ChatGPT or Gemini. Pros The results whether literature review or else, is so organized, easy to understand, clean, sharp and to the point. Cons I can't recall anything for now, maybe in the future it will become faster. However, it's all good now since you don't normally do intensive research so frequently. Review Source OS Omesh S. CTO Utilities Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Scispace: A space and place for everyone...." March 24, 2026 5.0 Brilliant is how it has all the tools required for academic research. Scispace understands the prompts clearly as outputs are more than expected. Pros Ease of use, functional tools and accuracy of outputs. The time it take to generate outputs are great. Cons Once you have exhausted your credits, the system stops working. Allowing the user to top-up would be beneficial. Review Source NŠ Nikolina Š. Teaching asistant Education Management Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Great but be careful when paying" June 18, 2025 5.0 Great, because Wapp man helped me with refunding of much money. 😁😁 I can recommend it to everyone! Not so expensive to have a great papers! Pros Ease of use of the program and help service via Wapp. I recimmend ut to everyone because by this help you are so much faster while typing your paper. Cons The fact that the payment program does not warn of changes compared to the previous method of use. I thought I was paying a monthly installment and then I saw that I paid an annual one. It would not be bad if, when confirming the payment, they wrote how much more money will be debited from the account. Review Source SH Sarah H. RN Mental Health Care Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great tool, fantastic customer service" May 14, 2025 5.0 Happy and I regularly recommend it for other people I know doing their Masters. I also want to say I am thrilled with customer service who supported me in securing a refund when I missed the cancellation day. I was only cancelling as I have completed school as it was no longer needed. 5 stars for customer service. Pros Captured the info needed from articles in a way that was useful for research and completing schoolwork Cons I found the interface a bit confusing as to where to find certain things and I didn't really get a good handle on that or how to organize things efficiently Review Source HJ Hadia J. Student Mental Health Care Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Purchase enquiry" April 8, 2025 5.0 Overall experience is very good. It makes my life very easy when it comes to seadch for journal articles i need to write my assignments Pros I had emailed for assistance for an enquiry. The response time was very fast, within an hour, which is something i have never experienced before. The situation was handled very efficiently in a professional manner Cons So far, i have no conplaints about Scispace Review Source NK Nerija K. Accountant Financial Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "A wonderful website for students" June 7, 2025 5.0 It basically helped me find all the relevant literature for my bachelors thesis. Reaaally helpful!!! Pros Functionality is very good, helpful support team, would recommend this website to every student!!!!! Cons I would say it would be helpful to be able to find certain papers and not only summaries of them while using search option Review Source TN Tran N. officer Banking Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "review Scispace" May 7, 2025 4.0 It's ok, but the AI writer should be improved for better response in context and the performance without lagging Pros I like literature review the most. It helped me quickly scan for documents for literature review in thesis Cons AI writer is often lag. Its responses were not relevant to the context when writing. And the citations were not automated when the AI writer generated based on the user's command. Review Source AQ Anna Q. Professor, PhD Higher Education Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Great app to researchers and reserch teachers" September 25, 2025 5.0 Pros The panel that shows details about the studies; the studies are real; link to reach each study, easy to use, there is a automatic translate prompt Cons Need to pay annually instead of by the month; maybe if is possible to have two persons in one account. Review Source VS Vithlani S. Teacher Education Management Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Excellent and would refer to others" April 30, 2025 5.0 I just followed the steps given by my instructor so could do it easily. But if i would have tried on my own then would have definitely stuck up somewhere. Pros Add to notebook feature which will help us for future reference is the one I liked the most. Cons Little difficult to follow but yes with constant practice and daily usage we can overcome it. Review Source LJ Lucia J. PhD Student Higher Education Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Excellent Features, Slightly Out of Budget" April 10, 2025 5.0 My overall experience with SciSpace has been very positive. The platform is intuitive and offers powerful tools that make working with academic content much easier. Features like AI-powered explanations and reference management have been especially helpful. Although I haven’t subscribed yet due to pricing concerns, I truly see the value in what SciSpace offers and would definitely consider using it long-term if more affordable options become available. Pros I liked how easy it was to work with research papers and get quick explanations of complex topics. Cons I would really like to subscribe to SciSpace, as I find it very useful and well-designed. However, the pricing is currently a bit high for me. A more affordable plan or student discount would definitely make it more accessible. Review Source ARP Aakash Raj P. Student Education Management Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Helping a lot of People in academia" April 25, 2025 5.0 Pros The response was quick and the support team is helping no matter what the concern is, which is really great and helpful.. Cons There is nothing specific to mention as a con here. Everything is good. Review Source oG outman G. I'm student Computer & Network Security Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "A very satisfied customer of the support team." May 27, 2025 5.0 My overall experience with SciSpace has been very positive. The support team is highly professional and responsive, which enhances the overall user experience. I am satisfied and confident in continuing to use SciSpace for my academic needs. Pros I truly appreciated the professionalism, responsiveness, and genuine willingness to help shown by your support team. Cons I honestly have no complaints about the SciSpace support team; their assistance has been consistently excellent and reliable. Review Source AGT Amelia Gita T. student Research Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Good! a bit expensive tho" April 10, 2025 4.0 help me understand for all scientific journals, papers and reports for my research. Pros easy to use, easy to organize, offer great ai prompt Cons too expensive at 20USD per month, and most of students are broke Review Source IP Isaias P. Science Teacher Environmental Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "a great product" May 18, 2025 5.0 is very positive , I was able to get a great deal of help on Pros is an amazing tool, it saves a lot of time and effort, I am not Cons I love everything , all of it, is a great idea and a great enterprise Review Source AB Aziz B. Student Higher Education Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Very helpful for Phd students" April 19, 2025 5.0 Very good experience. I was reffered by a friend and this platform was very helpful during hectic times of my Phd journey. Pros The article summaries are very helpful and concise, also the way Scispace helps interacting with the articles is fascinating Cons The feature of turning summaries into audios. This feature does not turn all the summary or all the article. Review Source NB Nacereddine B. Teacher Higher Education Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Using Scispace" April 6, 2025 5.0 Pros It helps researchers and students stay updated with the latest research. Literature reviews and writing are made more efficient. Cons It's too early to detect some of the drawbacks, as I have just started using it. Review Source ET Eniko T. PhD student Education Management Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Very unhappy with Scispace" March 29, 2024 1.0 Very bad experience, I would not recommed it to anybody. Pros I don't trust scispace at all. I would not recommend it to anybody. Cons The data privided by Scispace is not reliable. Payment is done for 1 year, although I am not happy with the service. Review Source Similar Products Featured ## Send me user reviews about this product ### Fill out the form and we'll send a list of the top-rated software based on real user reviews directly to your inbox.