Cito

Hybrid academic search over 236M papers, built for agents

103 followers

Hybrid academic search over 236M papers, built for agents

103 followers

Cito is a hybrid search engine over the Semantic Scholar corpus: 236M papers in the keyword index, 146M with SPECTER2 dense vectors, fused with RRF and reranked by a cross-encoder. Free web search with no signup, a plain JSON API, and a native MCP endpoint so agents like Claude Code can run deep literature research without upstream rate limits. Built because every academic API throttled my agents to death.

Cito Alternatives

Exploring Cito alternatives? Try Logically, a writer-friendly research workspace; Consensus, which surfaces answers from peer-reviewed papers; Scispace, great for explaining PDFs; and exa.ai, a fast API for agentic search. See which fits your workflow.