# Introduction

The SciSpace API turns a research question into an answer you can check. Every sentence it returns
carries a citation into the 280M+ works in the corpus — down to the page, and the region on that
page, the claim came from.

## The three things you can do

- **Search and synthesize the literature** — ask a research question, get an answer with citations and the matched papers. → searches
- **Work with your own PDFs** — upload documents, ask questions, extract structured fields. → chats, extractions
- **Handle the scholarly plumbing** — paper metadata, formatted citations in 2,000+ styles, paraphrasing, AI detection. → papers, citations

## What makes this different

Every generated sentence links to the source it came from — including the page and the exact region
on that page. Claims the model could not source are labeled as such rather than left ambiguous.
See citation.

## Choose your path

| If you want to… | Start here |
|---|---|
| Make your first call now | quickstart |
| Understand the objects before you code | concepts-overview |
| Look up an endpoint | reference-overview |
| Evaluate cost, licensing, or compliance | pricing-and-credits, content-licensing |