ScispaceReviews of scispace.com

This ai academic platform seems attractive at first but the problems appeared in only a few hours. You have a limited number of credits, even with most expensive subscription, and the AI will burn through this in hours if you're not careful. The AI kept writing reports and summaries I hadn't asked for, charging me hundreds of credits each time. Upload a set of guidelines to follow, and the AI automatically generates a compliance report I hadn't asked for. I even expressly said don't perform any action unless I specifically request it, and it did it anyway. I was only looking for advice on how to tailor and expand a systematic literature review and the AI just went ahead and tried to re-write the entire review - something I wanted to do myself. I can't see the finished product as it used all my credits on something. There is no transparency in how those credits are used and the system will not answer questions on how those credits are used or what a specific action will cost. It seems the default position of the AI is to waste credits and therefore money, while producing nothing of value. I would avoid and go with a more ethical platform.

Scispace's pricing page is titled, "Simple and transparent pricing." This is false advertisement and a complete lie. You pay for a certain number of credits per month, but there's no description anywhere of how many credits different tasks will cost. I reached out, because that page has vague estimates, but it says, "Costs shown are illustrative, extrapolated from current credit packages. Actual credit consumption may change based on your query." I emailed them for clarity, and they sent me the same page and they said, "I understand how not having a clear estimate can make it feel unpredictable." It doesn't FEEL unpredictable. It IS unpredictable. I'm really sick of this wording that more and more AI companies are using to gaslight users. It's unbelievable for a company to expect you to use their product, but they can't tell you how much it will cost you, so you have no idea how to plan your usage.

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On 24 November 2025, I sent an email to your technical support department detailing a series of problems I had encountered with your application Scispace. One of the searches I performed returned a set of references that were incorrect, and the accompanying statements were also inaccurate. On 9 December 2025, I wrote again to the support department to explain that, in addition to these issues, I was facing another serious problem. I was preparing a grant application that required intensive reference searching and therefore significant use of your service. However, despite having paid for credits for the entire year, once I had used the credits allocated for that month I was unable to perform any further searches unless I purchased additional credits. I consider this situation abusive. A more reasonable approach would be to allow clients to use their credits on an annual basis rather than restricting them to monthly allocations. There may be months when I need your services extensively and others when I barely need them at all. In my view, the current policy represents poor business practice and should be reconsidered. I explained in my previous message that, otherwise, I would be forced to cancel my subscription for next year and, naturally, any reviews I leave on forums or other platforms would not be positive, as I believe this policy unfairly penalises your clients. I received at that point a reply stating that my query would be forwarded to the appropriate department, but I have not received any further response since then. As you can imagine, I am very dissatisfied with your service. In addition to the errors and incorrect information provided, your business model appears abusive and does not benefit your clients. For all these reasons, I cannot recommend the use of your application.

This product looks good at first glance, but you need to be very aware that it can produce FAKE references in literature reviews. Their "Help" system is utter rubbish, and they constantly badger you to upgrade to the next paid tier (which is EXTREMELY expensive) to get your results. Their subscription model is totally obscene. I'd gladly continue, but it's an extremely unreliable platform that produces spurious results - STAY AWAY.

Trabajo en investigación clínica y la plataforma SciSpace (PubGenius Inc.) se promociona como un asistente de Inteligencia Artificial diseñado para apoyar la preparación y mejora de manuscritos científicos. El 9 de febrero de 2026 accedí al dominio de scispace y solicité la revisión de un manuscrito que estaba preparando, específicamente para mejorar su calidad gramatical y para recibir ayuda con la generación precisa de la bibliografía para las citas en el texto—servicios que su empresa anuncia como de los mejores disponibles. Tras enviar mi documento, la plataforma generó varios archivos de salida. Sin embargo, se me exigió contratar una suscripción anual para poder acceder a ellos. Decidí proceder con el pago, esperando no solo mejoras para el artículo actual, sino también apoyo para futuros proyectos de investigación a lo largo del año. Una vez completado el pago, descargué los archivos generados. Tras una revisión cuidadosa, comprobé que prácticamente no se habían realizado mejoras significativas en la edición del manuscrito. La calidad general del texto permanecía sin cambios. Más preocupante aún, existen referencias proporcionadas que parecen ser inventadas. Varias citas no existen, los coautores indicados son incorrectos, una referencia parece haber sido generada bajo mi propio nombre y algunos títulos no aparecen en PubMed. Además, ciertas citas de revistas y rangos de páginas no corresponden a ninguna publicación existente y, en algunos casos, los números de página se sitúan entre dos artículos no relacionados. El servicio prestado no se corresponde con lo anunciado en su página web, especialmente en lo relativo a la precisión y fiabilidad de la generación de bibliografía. Como investigador, la provisión de referencias inventadas o inexactas representa un problema grave.

Very irritating AI platform for many reasons, and way over priced for what you get. I have to run and rerun the same scripts over and over again because it does not follow directions properly. Also, its too liberal in its discourse which is not appropriate for scientific papers and the like. DO NOT RECOMEND AT ALL. Also, I hate the credit system they use, which is allocated each month. So if you run out in the middle of a run you need to wait for the next month to finish it. So $hite all around this platform.

I paid $100+ for a comprehensive research analysis. The work is complete but your platform has a critical bug preventing file downloads. Error: "Failed to execute json on Response: Unexpected end of JSON input"_I cannot access ANY of my paid deliverables. This is unacceptable.