Kimi Deep Research vs SciSpace

Kimi Deep Research turns a research question into a cited report by clarifying its scope, making a plan, searching sources, and synthesizing findings. It searches the open web and professional databases spanning news, government, academic, corporate, financial, and economic material. Reports can contain charts and traceable citations from web research and uploaded files. Users can follow up within the same session, with additional sources gathered in light of earlier context and findings. Deliverables include Markdown, PDF, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and interactive HTML. Users may upload background files and review the agent’s queries and fetched URLs while it works. The feature lists use cases in finance and investment, academic and market research, consulting, business analysis, and due diligence. It is available on Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, web, and as an extension. The free plan has a limited monthly allowance, with usage measured by token consumption rather than a fixed query count; paid plans start at $19/mo. The privacy policy says prompts and uploaded files may be processed to provide and improve services, including training and optimizing AI models.

SciSpace is a platform for finding, analyzing, and writing about scientific literature. Its literature review tool searches more than 280 million articles and organizes concise findings in tables with customizable columns. Chat with PDF offers citation-backed answers, section-by-section summaries, explanations of highlighted passages, and related-paper recommendations. Writing tools include AI-assisted suggestions, paraphrasing in context, style improvements, and an editor supporting more than 75 languages. Users can import references from Zotero or EndNote, though the Zotero import flow excludes papers without a DOI. A Chrome extension explains selected text, math, and tables; its mobile app is for iOS and supports searching, summarizing, and exploring peer-reviewed journals. SciSpace says its repository has metadata for 200 million-plus papers and 50 million-plus open-access full-text PDFs. It lists extension, iOS, and web access. The free plan is free and includes 100 monthly credits; paid plans start at $20/mo. SciSpace says uploaded PDFs are private to the user and are not used to train its AI models.