cytado vs Scholarly
cytado
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Scholarly
scholarly.soSide by side
| Figure | cytado | Scholarly |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $19/mo | $12/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 7 | 8 |
| Spec score · AI Citation Generators | 8.9 (#4) | 8.4 (#7) |
| Spec score · Citation generators | 8.5 (#13) | 9.0 (#2) |
| Privacy | The Chrome extension says cytado receives only text that a user selects and submits, not other page content or browsing history. | Scholarly does not use private User Content to train general-purpose AI models by default, and optional training requires separate informed opt-in. |
| Product | cytado finds academic sources for claims and provides citations with printed page numbers, quotes, and links to the original sources. | Scholarly is a source-grounded AI workspace for individuals, professionals, and teams. |
| Support | The product pages link to a support contact and contact form, while institution customers are invited to join a waitlist. | Users can contact Scholarly at [email protected] and the help center provides a Discord community link. |
| What it does | cytado finds academic sources supporting a claim, reads the source document, extracts printed page numbers and produces citations or bibliographies. | Scholarly is a source-grounded AI workspace that turns users’ PDFs, recordings, videos, websites and notes into learning and research outputs. |
Plans
cytado
- FreeFree
- TestFree
- TestFree
- Unlocked project$13, paid once
- Basic$19 a month
- Start$49 a month
- Pro$99 a month
Scholarly
- FreeFree
- Premium$30 a month
- Premium for Teams$35 a month
- Laureate$99 a month
- Laureate for Teams$110 a month
- Premium$144 a year
- Premium for Teams$336 a year
- Laureate for Teams$1,056 a year
In their own words
cytado
cytado helps users find academic sources for claims and build citations with printed page numbers, quotations and links to original sources. It formats footnotes and bibliographies in APA 7, MLA 9, Chicago, Harvard and numbered footnote styles, and supports BibTeX and RIS. Bibliographies can be exported to Word, PDF, LaTeX, BibTeX or RIS, or checked against Crossref, OpenAlex and Google Books. Integrations include Google Docs, Microsoft Word, Claude via MCP, ChatGPT and a Chrome extension. The Citation API can find sources for claims, retrieve sources for chapters and check usage. Its source corpus covers English, Polish and German publications. Unpaid projects are limited to one at a time and subject to daily and monthly search caps. The free plan requires no card; an Unlocked project costs $13, paid once, while monthly plans start at $19 a month. Documents without printed pagination do not receive page numbers.
Scholarly
Scholarly is a browser-based AI workspace that uses your source material to create study and research outputs. Add PDFs, recordings, notes, slides, webpages, videos, images, YouTube links, or pasted text, then make flashcards, quizzes, practice exams, study guides, podcasts, video lectures, slides, mind maps, worksheets, and timelines. Chat answers include checked citations, with a Sources button opening the page supporting each claim. Deep Research searches the web, evaluates sources, and produces cited reports with charts and inline links.
Scholarly works in a browser on laptops, tablets, and phones, and syncs work through your account. Its Google Drive connection can use selected files as sources and save finished work as new Docs or Slides. Teams can use shared libraries, roles, central billing, and model controls. A free plan and free trial are available; paid plans start at $12/user/mo (annual). Scholarly says private user content is not used to train general-purpose AI by default; training requires separate opt-in.