AI & Agents
PaperSeek
Last updated 2026-06-28 · benchmark checked 2026-08-09 · unchanged since 2026-08-08 — deterministic & reproducible
LLM-based academic literature search agent with citation mapping and export.
Is PaperSeek production-ready?
Legit.Show scores PaperSeek 65 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on PaperSeek (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Accessibility; its weakest is Discoverability. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 91/100
- Accessibility — 96/100
- Security — 45/100
- Privacy — 25/100
- Reliability — 92/100
- Standards — 92/100
- Discoverability — 15/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: HSTS.
- No Content-Security-Policy.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 391 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 0 of 0 sampled routes reachable.
- No privacy policy found.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
Who it's for
Researchers · Students · Academics · Scientists · Literature reviewers
Pricing
Free tier: 10 successful searches per day; higher quotas available upon request to paperseek-community@outlook.com
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