GPT Researcher vs SciSpace Agent
GPT Researcher (Assaf Elovic and contributors) and SciSpace Agent (PubGenius Inc.) side by side on public data, as of Oct 6, 2026.
GPT Researcher shipped 3 stable releases in the past 90 days.
Side-by-side numbers
| Metric | GPT Researcher | SciSpace Agent |
|---|---|---|
| Pulse Score | 28 | 37 |
| Overall rank | #141 | #97 |
| Downloads, last 7 days | 13.1K | — |
| Downloads, 7-day change | up 42.4% | — |
| Downloads, 30-day change | down 41.5% | — |
| VS Code installs | — | — |
| Marketplace rating | — | — |
| GitHub stars | 29.9K | — |
| Homebrew installs, 30 days | — | — |
| Hacker News mentions, 30 days | 0 | 3 |
| Latest stable release | 3.7.0 · 10d ago | — |
| Stable releases, 90 days | 3 | |
| Terminal-Bench (best run) | — | — |
| Price | Free (OSS) | Free + $20/mo |
| License | Apache-2.0 | |
| First released | — | — |
| Interfaces | — | — |
| Models |
Trends
GPT Researcher
An open-source agent that plans research, gathers and filters many web or local sources and writes a cited report, with support for multiple model providers.
Pricing: Free open-source software; users pay their own model and search API costs.
Latest release 3.7.0:
- Benchmark, method and code: evals/contextfilter/
- Python 3.12+ is now required.
- Default context filter: without a TypeSafe key, the default is now keyword ranking instead of
- Retriever plugins: ship a search provider as its own package via the gptresearcher.retrievers entry point (#2154)
SciSpace Agent
SciSpace (formerly Typeset) is an AI research workspace whose agent runs multi-step literature reviews, systematic-review screening, data extraction from papers and database searches.
Pricing: Basic is free with 100 credits a month. Premium $20/month billed monthly ($12 annually), Advanced $90 and Max $200.