What each tool does
Scite is a paid research tool that answers questions using a very large collection of scholarly articles, preprints, books, patents and datasets. It reads full text, not just abstracts, and its Smart Citations show whether later research supported or contradicted a finding, which helps you weigh a claim.
Humata is a document assistant for your own files. You upload documents and ask questions across all of them. It summarises long technical papers, compares files and returns answers with citations that link back to the source, acting like a private knowledge base. It is designed to handle many documents and lots of questions.
Key differences
- Source material: Scite searches published scholarly literature; Humata searches only what you upload.
- Citations: Both cite sources, but Scite shows how a paper has been cited by others, while Humata points you to the exact file an answer came from.
- Use case: Scite is for discovering and checking research; Humata is for managing and querying large sets of documents.
- Audience: Scite is aimed at academics and graduate students; Humata at researchers, analysts and teams with heavy documentation.
- Pricing: Scite is paid; Humata is freemium and can be tried for free.
Which should you choose?
Choose Scite if your main task is finding relevant research and checking whether findings hold up across the literature. It suits thesis and journal work. Check the pricing page for current plans.
Choose Humata if you or your team already have many reports, papers or manuals and need to search, compare and summarise them quickly. The free option lets you test it before paying, which helps if you are paying in USD by card.
Can you use both?
Yes. Use Scite to find and vet the papers for your project, then load your chosen papers and related documents into Humata so you can query them together with cited answers.
