ScholarAI Pro
Free Sci-Hub alternative that actually works - 250M pap
Details
- External ID
- 1258748
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- ScholarAI Pro
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 23, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Education
- Fetched at
- Sept. 24, 2026, 2:57 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 24, 2026, 2:57 a.m.
Description
Sci-Hub is down half the time, especially in Iraq. I built ScholarAI Pro as a free alternative during my thesis. - 250M+ papers from OpenAlex - Free PDFs, no login or VPN - AI summary for each paper - 100% free forever Built for students tired of paywalls. Try it: https://scholarai-pro-final.vercel.app
Enrichment
- Theme
- image generation API gateways and proxies
- Vertical
- Education
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- academic paper search and access tool for researchers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It wraps the freely accessible OpenAlex API to search academic papers, links to existing open-access PDFs, and summarizes them via an LLM API.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 7 launches clear the similarity bar.
Attention rank: #7 of 8 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 322 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.