FindIP vs XLSCOUT

FindIP provides patent search through a browser playground and a REST API for use in other services. It searches published patents from the US, China, Japan, Korea, and Europe; full-text coverage begins in 2001, except China, where it begins in 2010. Semantic search matches text by meaning, while drawing search finds visually similar patent illustrations. Sequence search covers similar DNA, RNA, or protein sequences. Image and sequence results can be reranked by topic. Queries may be written in English, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, or German across all five jurisdictions. FindIP says each result is a publication in its database that can be checked by publication number. Its MCP connection supports Claude Desktop and Web and ChatGPT during beta. The Free plan costs nothing and includes 30 search credits and all APIs. Basic costs $45 a month, billed excluding tax, and includes 300 monthly credits. Text searches use one credit; image search, sequence search, and trend analysis use two. The listed rate limit is 60 requests per minute on Free, Basic, and Pro; Enterprise has a custom limit.

XLSCOUT is an AI platform for innovation and intellectual property, with tools for idea validation, ideation, patent drafting and patent monetization. Novelty Checker LLM analyzes patent prior art and non-patent literature, returning ranked, contextually mapped results and structured novelty reports. Ideacue supports brainstorming, idea-strength analysis, feature mapping and prior-art comparison. Drafting LLM generates patent claims, abstracts, drawings, backgrounds and descriptions, with US and Japanese formats. ClaimChart LLM creates AI-assisted claim charts for patent and potential-infringement analysis; Deep Research currently handles one patent at a time. Other listed modules include Invalidator LLM, PatDigger LLM and TechScaper LLM. XLSCOUT describes its platform as covering more than 170 million patents from over 100 countries, over 220 million non-patent literature items and 106+ jurisdictions. It is available via web and API. The maker says users can delete data, customer data is not used for model training, and storage is available on US- or EU-based servers. XLSCOUT states that it is SOC 2 Type 2 certified and GDPR compliant. Pricing is organization-specific and available by request; a free trial is offered with no stated duration.