Scienceos

Scienceos

ScienceOS · Productivity · Leaning · Chatbot

Scienceos is an AI research tool built for scientists who need answers fast and don't have time to read everything. It combines three things in one place: an AI science chat that draws on a database of more than 230 million research papers, a multi-PDF chat that lets you question your own literature, and an AI reference manager for organizing sources and findings.

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About Scienceos

What Is Scienceos

Scienceos is a web-based AI research assistant from ScienceOS, aimed at researchers, students, and anyone working with scientific literature. It answers questions with citations from its paper database and lets you upload your own PDFs to query alongside published work. Think of it as a research desk that never sleeps.

The tool is aimed at a specific kind of pain: reading dozens of papers to answer one question, then losing track of where the answer came from. Scienceos keeps sources, chats, and notes in one workspace so citations stay attached to the claims they support. Sound familiar?

It's not a free-for-all. The free plan covers a fast model with usage limits and text-only PDF chat. Figures and tables inside scanned papers require a paid plan. And the paper database holds journal literature, so it won't help with your lab notebook or proprietary internal reports.

Getting Started

  1. Create a free account on the Scienceos website using your email.
  2. Ask a scientific question in the science chat to get a cited overview of a topic you're exploring.
  3. Upload PDFs (up to 80 MB each on Free and Angel plans) to start a multi-PDF chat grounded in your own documents.
  4. Organize everything into a project workspace, annotate key results, and invite colleagues if you're working in a team.
  5. Upgrade to the Angel plan if you need the best model, figure and table extraction, or larger bulk imports.

Product Information

A quick look at Scienceos's pricing, supported platforms, and performance.

Free PlanYes
Paid Plans$0 - €7.25/mo
PlatformWeb (browser-based)
DeveloperScienceOS
CategoryProductivity · Leaning · Chatbot
Release DateApr 2023
Latest UpdatedSep 2025
Website Visits52.8K
Website Global Rank578.2K
API AvailabilityN/A

Best for

The users, tasks, and scenarios where this tool fits best.

Users

  • Researchers and academics
  • PhD students and lab members
  • Science writers and analysts

Tasks

  • Getting an overview of an unfamiliar topic
  • Extracting data from a stack of PDFs
  • Building a citation network
  • Drafting a manuscript section grounded in specific sources

Scenarios

  • Starting a literature review under a deadline
  • Checking whether a claim in a draft holds up
  • Keeping a long-running project organized

Key features

AI Project Manager

Dedicated workspaces keep sources, chats, and findings in one place. You can annotate results you'll want to come back to. Team and Institution users can invite colleagues to a shared project, which turns private research into something a group can build on. The organized structure is the difference between a useful archive and a folder full of loose PDFs.

Science Chat With a 230 Million Paper Database

The core chat answers scientific questions using a database of more than 230 million research documents, updated weekly. Replies come with citations, so you can trace a claim back to the source rather than trusting a black-box answer. No blind faith required. It's the fastest way to get oriented in a field you don't know well.

Multi-PDF Chat for Your Own Literature

Upload your own PDFs and query across them. On the free plan, chat works with text that's already encoded in the file. The Angel plan adds extraction from scanned PDFs plus figures and tables through a feature called PDF+. That matters if your sources are older scans or dense with results buried in charts.

Citation Networks

You can see how papers cite each other and map a topic's lineage. For a literature review, this beats guessing which papers matter. Not even close. The free plan includes basic citation networks, while paid plans open up the full "see how papers are cited" view.

Bulk Import

Paid plans let you bring in large batches of files at once, up to 100 on Angel and 4,000 on Team and Institution. If you're moving an existing reference collection into Scienceos, this saves you from uploading one paper at a time. Big timesaver.

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Combines science chat, multi-PDF chat, and reference management in one web app, so you're not stitching three tools together.
  • Free plan is genuinely usable with a fast model, text-only PDF chat, and citation networks.
  • Answers come with citations from a large, weekly-updated paper database.
  • EU-based data storage and a stated policy of not training models on your data.
  • Team and Institution plans add collaboration and institutional login.

Cons

  • Figure and table extraction needs a paid plan, so free users miss results locked inside charts and scanned pages.
  • No mobile app, which means everything runs in a browser.
  • The paper database covers published journal literature only, so it's no help for internal or proprietary documents.
  • The best model sits behind usage limits even on the Angel plan.

Frequently asked questions

Scienceos helps you research scientific topics faster. You ask questions and get cited answers from a database of over 230 million papers, upload your own PDFs to query them, and keep sources organized in project workspaces.