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Undermind vs Asta: catalog facts
Undermind	Asta
Freemium Free sign-up, with paid and enterprise plans.	Free Offered by Ai2 as a research project; no paid plans are listed.
Web	Web
Reads full texts and figures, not only abstracts Follows citation trails to find related papers	Large corpus of 108M+ abstracts and 12M+ full-text papers Built by Ai2, the institute behind Semantic Scholar
Hosted service that requires an account Focused on scientific literature rather than general search	Web only Little detail about features is available on the homepage
Web application	Web application
Closed source	Closed source
License not stated	License not stated
Account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Needs internet	Needs internet
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 24, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 26, 2026

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