Cito
Hybrid academic search over 236M papers, built for agents
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 is a Developer Tools company. It launched on Product Hunt on Jul 16, 2026, with 113 upvotes. Adamlead has 1 person on file at Cito.
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- Hybrid academic search over 236M papers, built for agents
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