Head-to-head · facts checked 14 Sept 2026
Hebbia vs Scite
Scite uniquely has 15 features · Hebbia uniquely has 7 features.
The verdict
Hebbia or Scite?
Section 01
Pricing, plan by plan
Every plan each vendor publishes, monthly and yearly where both are offered.
Hebbia
Hebbia does not publish a plan list we could read.
Scite
Free
Free
Free Connect tier, used through ChatGPT or Claude, no credit card
Basic
$20/mo · $144/yr
Unlimited Assistant queries, Full-Text Search, Smart Citation Reports, 250 MCP credits/month, collections up to 1,000 papers
Pro
$50/mo · $480/yr
Everything in Basic plus 2,500 MCP credits/month, collections up to 10,000 papers, patents/clinical trials/grants search
Team
$50/seat/mo · $480/seat/yr
Everything in Pro plus private/shared collections, team analytics, centralized billing, flexible seat management
Enterprise
Contact us
Unlimited users, API access, regulatory datasets (FAERS, MAUDE, 510(k), MHRA), SAML/SSO, dedicated customer success manager
For everything else about each tool, read the full Hebbia review and Scite review.
Side by side
| Company | ||
| Founded | 2020 | 2018 |
| HQ | New York, NY | Henderson, NV USA |
| AI model | GPT-4 and proprietary retrieval architecture | Proprietary (built on licensed scholarly database with AI assistant layer) |
| User base | $30T AUM of firms using Hebbia | 2M+ |
| Platforms | Web | Web, Chrome Extension, Zotero Plugin, API, Claude/ChatGPT integrations (MCP) |
| Languages | English primarily | English primarily |
| Pricing | ||
| Pricing model | Custom | Subscription |
| Free plan | No | Yes, free Connect tier (MCP-only, via ChatGPT/Claude, no credit card) |
| Free trial | No | Yes |
| Starting price | — | $20/mo |
| Enterprise | Yes | Contact us |
| Refund policy | — | Non-refundable; users can cancel future renewals at any time |
| All plans | — | Free — Free Basic — $20/mo Pro — $50/mo Team — $50/seat/mo Enterprise — Contact us |
| Positioning | ||
| Best for | Enterprise knowledge workers in finance, law, and consulting needing AI-powered document analysis at scale | Individual researchers, labs, and small teams doing deep research |
| Differentiator | Matrix interface that runs multi-document, multi-step AI analysis across thousands of documents simultaneously, surfacing cited answers from uploaded files and integrated financial data sources | Scite's Smart Citations uniquely classify how later research has supported, contradicted, or mentioned a paper, grounding every AI-generated answer in verifiable sentence-level evidence from 1.6B+ indexed citations across 40+ licensed publisher agreements. |
| Competitors | Glean, Luminance, Harvey, Relativity, Kira Systems | Semantic Scholar, Elicit, Consensus, ResearchRabbit, Connected Papers |
| Features | ||
| Chatgpt & Claude Integrations | — | ✓ |
| Citation Alerts | — | ✓ |
| Cited AI Answers | ✓ | — |
| Full Text Search | — | ✓ |
| MCP Credits | — | ✓ |
| Multi Document Matrix Analysis | ✓ | — |
| PDF and Document Ingestion | ✓ | — |
| Patent, Clinical Trial & Grant Search | — | ✓ |
| Pitchbook Integration | ✓ | — |
| S&P Capital Iq Integration | ✓ | — |
| Sec Filings Integration | ✓ | — |
| Smart Citations | — | ✓ |
| Academic Search | ✕ | ✓ |
| AI Summarization | ✓ | ✓ |
| API Access | — | ✓ |
| Browser Extension | ✕ | ✓ |
| Citation Generation | — | ✓ |
| Data Privacy | ✓ | ✓ |
| Document Upload | ✓ | ✓ |
| Fact Checking | — | ✓ |
| Follow Up Questions | — | ✓ |
| Mobile App | ✕ | ✕ |
| Multi Source Synthesis | ✓ | ✓ |
| Team Collaboration | ✓ | — |
| Web Search | ✓ | ✓ |
| Integrations | ||
| API Access | — | ✓ |
| Browser Extension | ✕ | ✓ |
| Google Docs Export | ✕ | — |
| Key Integrations | SEC Filings, Earnings Transcripts, European Filings, UK Companies House, Australia and NZ Filings, FactSet, S&P Capital IQ, PitchBook, Preqin, Fitch, ICE Market Data, EMMA, SharePoint, OneDrive, Box, Dropbox, Egnyte, AWS, IntraLinks, Web, Podcasts, Third Bridge, Guidepoint, Salesforce, DealCloud, Snowflake, Databricks | Zotero, Claude, ChatGPT, MCP-compatible assistants, API |
| Notion Integration | ✕ | — |
| Zotero Integration | ✕ | ✓ |
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