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Lune vs Consensus

Consensus takes a yes-or-no research question, pulls the studies that bear on it, and shows how many point which way. Lune does not aggregate. It returns the line one paper actually wrote.

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Start with the one you should not buy from us

If the first list is you, take Consensus.

Choose Consensus if

  • Your question is empirical and settled by weight of evidence.
  • You want a fast read on where a literature currently sits.
  • Breadth across every field matters more than depth in one.

Choose Lune if

  • You are citing one paper and need the sentence that backs you.
  • You want the retrieval inside your agent, through MCP.
  • You work where the venues, not the volume, decide quality.

From a question to a citation

Consensus

  1. Ask a yes or no question
  2. Weigh the studies
  3. Agreement meter

Lune

  1. Send the claim
  2. Read the full text
  3. Quote with a locator
An aggregate answers the field. A quote answers the sentence.

Line by line

Marks the side we think wins. We mark the ones we lose.

  • What is indexed

    Lune

    Top-tier venues, most papers in full text.

    Consensus

    Consensus wins this row. More than 200 million peer-reviewed papers.

  • What you get back

    Lune

    A verbatim quote and its locator, or nothing found.

    Consensus

    An aggregate of what the studies point to.

  • Unit of evidence

    Lune

    The sentence inside one paper.

    Consensus

    The finding across many papers.

  • Agent access

    Lune

    Lune wins this row. MCP and a CLI, on every plan.

    Consensus

    Not documented on the pages we could read.

  • Methodology guidance

    Lune

    Lune wins this row. A corpus on peer review, ablations and venue choice.

    Consensus

    Not offered.

  • Published pricing

    Lune

    Free, $4.99 and $9.99 a month, or $47.90 and $95.90 a year.

    Consensus

    Free and paid tiers, published on their site.

Where the difference comes from

An aggregate is an answer about a field

The Consensus Meter is a good idea honestly executed: for a question the literature has actually studied, showing how the studies distribute beats reading the first abstract that agrees with you.

It answers at the level of the field. Most of what a researcher writes is narrower than that. A related-work sentence attributes a specific claim to a specific paper, and no aggregate can confirm or deny it.

Different questions, both worth asking

Ask Consensus whether an effect holds and you get a defensible summary of where the evidence sits. Ask Lune whether a paper says what you wrote and you get the sentence, or a plain report that there is none.

Neither replaces the other. If your field is empirical and broad, Consensus reaches more of it than Lune ever will.

What your agent can call

  • search_papers
  • search_papers_many
  • search_related_papers
  • get_paper_fulltext
  • get_paper_citations
  • extract_from_papers
  • verify_claims
  • gather_evidence
  • list_conferences
  • get_conference_papers
  • search_research_guidance
  • get_research_guidance_doc

One connection, in Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, ChatGPT or anything else that speaks MCP. The same tools back the miniapps in the Lune dashboard.

Price

Lune

Free
$0 10 requests a day, every tool
Pro
$4.99 a month or $47.90 a year, 300 requests a day
Max
$9.99 a month or $95.90 a year, 600 requests a day
Credits
$0.99 300 extra requests, no expiry

Consensus

Free
$0 search with the agreement meter
Paid
Published figures on their pricing page

Consensus blocks automated readers, so we link their pricing page rather than quote figures we could not verify ourselves. Prices move; treat this as a snapshot, not a quote.

What we read

Questions

Is Lune a Consensus alternative?
For citing one paper accurately, yes. For a read on where a whole literature sits, Consensus indexes far more and aggregates it properly.
Does Lune have a consensus meter?
No. gather_evidence reports whether the evidence it found is sufficient and what is missing, which is a different claim from counting studies.
Can I use both?
Yes. Consensus to see where a field sits, Lune to make sure the sentence you wrote about one paper is right.

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