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Semantic Scholar

Allen Institute for AI · #13 most active of 14 in Search & Research

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Open academic graph and API used across research tooling.

Current version

2025

Entry cost

Free, open API

Changes / 30d

0

The short answers

What is the latest version of Semantic Scholar?
The current shipped version of Semantic Scholar is 2025.
How much does Semantic Scholar cost?
Semantic Scholar has no published flat entry price. Free, open API
What AI model does Semantic Scholar use?
Semantic Scholar runs primarily on SPECTER embeddings.

Source: Allen Institute for AI (no public source page recorded) · Reusable under CC BY 4.0 — cite Tomorrow

Capabilities

  • 200M+ papers
  • Citation contexts
  • Open API

Pricing

Free, open API

Entry price over time

Not enough pricing history yet — we start charting from the second observation.

Geek mode

Models under the hood

  • SPECTER embeddings

    Provider undisclosed

    disclosed

Context window

—

Public API

no

Multi-model routing

no

Stack signals

  • Open corpus

Shared model stack

Other tracked products running on the same foundation models — a quick read on how much of the catalog moves when one of these models changes.

green disclosed · amber inferred · grey unattributed. Aliases are folded into one model; provider concentration counts only models with an established vendor.

Reported scale

Reference data. Each figure is whatever the source actually said — weekly users, downloads, revenue run-rate — with its own definition and date. These are not comparable between tools and are never used to rank anything.

No public usage figure on record for this product.

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Change history

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How to cite this page

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APA
Tomorrow. (2026). Semantic Scholar — version, pricing and model stack [Data set entry]. AlienSquad. Retrieved 2026-09-17, from https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/semantic-scholar
BibTeX
@misc{tomorrow-tools-semantic-scholar,
  author       = {{Tomorrow}},
  title        = {Semantic Scholar — version, pricing and model stack},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {AlienSquad},
  howpublished = {\url{https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/semantic-scholar}},
  note         = {Accessed: 2026-09-17}
}