Scite helps researchers discover and evaluate literature: its Smart Citations show whether later papers supported, mentioned or contrasted a study, and its Assistant answers with claims linked to the sentences they came from. Papero is where you write the paper itself, with an outline, sentence suggestions, citations from real scholarly records and six review checks.
Updated October 2026 with prices and features from both sites.
Prices and features change often. We checked these on Scite's own website on 20 October 2026; check its site before you decide, and tell us at contact@papero.ai if something here is out of date.
| Factor | Papero | Scite |
|---|---|---|
| Main job | Write and cite a paper: outline, draft, rewrite and real citations in one editor | Discover and evaluate research: Smart Citations show how papers were cited |
| Paid plans | Plus is $12 a month or $96 a year | Basic $12 / month, Pro $40 / month, both billed yearly |
| Free plan | Yes: 30 accepted suggestions a day, 3 reviews a month; reference list readable on Plus | No free plan; a 7-day free trial |
| Outline | IMRaD, AI headings or none, with a prompt for every section | Not described on its site |
| Sentence suggestions | One sentence at a time; 5,000 accepted a month on Plus | Not described on its site |
| Finding papers to cite | OpenAlex search across 250M+ papers, or a DOI, PMID, arXiv ID or ISBN | Search across 300M+ articles, preprints, books, patents and datasets |
| Citation styles | APA 7, MLA 9, Chicago author-date, Harvard, IEEE, Vancouver, AMA 11, Nature and ACS | Not described on its site |
| Bringing your sources | .bib and .ris files, or Zotero with your own API key | A Zotero plugin brings Scite's citation data into Zotero |
| Review before you submit | Six checks: sources, proofreading, claims, an AI reviewer report, tone and, on Plus, a citation report | Reference Check shows how a manuscript cites each reference and flags editorial notices |
| Training on your writing | Your documents are never used to train AI models | Says it does not use customer data to train large language models |
They fit together. Check how the key papers in your field have been cited, then write and cite your paper in Papero, importing your sources as a .bib or .ris file or from Zotero with your own API key.
| Feature | Papero | Scite |
|---|---|---|
| Outline builder | Yes | Not described on its site |
| AI sentence suggestions | Yes | Not described on its site |
| Rewrite and paraphrase | Yes | Not described on its site |
| Search papers to citeScite: 300M+ articles, preprints, books, patents and datasets. | Yes | Yes |
| Look up a DOI, PMID, arXiv ID or ISBN | Yes | Not described on its site |
| APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE, Vancouver, AMA, Nature and ACS | Yes | Not described on its site |
| Import your sourcesScite has a Zotero plugin for its citation data. | Yes | Not described on its site |
| Export your sourcesPapero: .bib or .ris export on Plus. | Partly | Not described on its site |
| Flags retracted papers and preprintsScite: Reference Check flags editorial notices and contrasting findings for each reference. | Yes | Yes |
| Proofreading | Yes | Not described on its site |
| AI reviewer report | Yes | Not described on its site |
| Version history | Yes | Not described on its site |
| Word export | Yes | Not described on its site |
| AI use statement | Yes | Not described on its site |
| Says your writing is not used for trainingScite: we do not use Customer Data to train, fine-tune, retrain, or otherwise improve any large language models. | Yes | Yes |
Papero's prices include VAT. Other prices are as each vendor listed them in October 2026; check their pricing page before you decide.
Scite and Papero do different jobs. Scite helps you judge the research: how a paper has been cited and what later work found. Papero helps you write your own paper with an outline, sentence suggestions, citations in your style and a review before you submit.
For writing, yes. Papero gives you an outline, sentence suggestions, rewrites, OpenAlex paper search, lookup by DOI, PMID, arXiv ID or ISBN, and six review checks in one editor. For judging how a paper has been cited, Scite does a different job.
Papero Plus is $12 a month or $96 a year, VAT included, and Papero has a free plan. Scite listed Basic at $12 / month and Pro at $40 / month, both billed yearly, with a 7-day free trial, when we checked in October 2026.
Yes. The source check flags cited papers that are retracted, preprints, rarely cited or could not be checked, and on Plus the citation report checks each cited sentence against its sources' titles and abstracts.
Papero never uses your documents to train AI models. Scite's privacy policy says it does not use customer data to train, fine-tune, retrain or otherwise improve any large language models.
Yes. Check how papers have been cited in Scite, then write and cite in Papero, importing your sources as a .bib or .ris file or from Zotero with your own API key.
Choose Papero to write and cite your paper. Choose Scite to evaluate how the research you rely on has been cited, or use both.
Scite is a trademark of its owner. Papero is not affiliated with Scite. Facts checked October 2026 on Scite's own website; if something has changed, tell us at contact@papero.ai.
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