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Comparisons

Lune vs Incisively AI

Incisively searches and monitors the scientific and R&D landscape, publications, patents and clinical trials together, for teams tracking a field commercially. Lune is aimed at the person writing the paper.

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Start with the one you should not buy from us

If the first list is you, take Incisively AI.

Choose Incisively AI if

  • Patents and clinical trials belong in the same search as papers.
  • Monitoring what competitors publish is part of the job.
  • You are buying for a team and can run a trial before pricing.

Choose Lune if

  • You are writing something that will be reviewed, not tracked.
  • You want the sentence a claim rests on, with its location.
  • You want a published price and a free tier to start on.

From a question to a citation

Incisively AI

  1. Search papers and patents
  2. Map the landscape
  3. Monitor for changes

Lune

  1. Search top-tier venues
  2. Read the full text
  3. Quote with a locator
One tracks a field for a team. The other checks a sentence for a writer.

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.

    Incisively AI

    Incisively AI wins this row. Publications, patents and clinical trials.

  • Who it is built for

    Lune

    A researcher and the agent they already run.

    Incisively AI

    R&D and competitive-intelligence teams.

  • How deep a citation goes

    Lune

    Lune wins this row. A verbatim quote and its locator, per claim.

    Incisively AI

    Synthesis with citations across sources.

  • Monitoring over time

    Lune

    New papers land as venues publish them.

    Incisively AI

    Incisively AI wins this row. Ongoing R&D activity monitoring and alerts.

  • Agent access

    Lune

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

    Incisively AI

    No MCP server or public API listed on their site.

  • Published pricing

    Lune

    Lune wins this row. Free, $4.99 and $9.99 a month, or $47.90 and $95.90 a year.

    Incisively AI

    None. Request a free trial.

Where the difference comes from

Different buyers, different evidence

Incisively sells to teams who need to know what a field is doing: who filed what, which trials are running, where the activity is moving. Patents and trials belong in that picture and are outside Lune's index entirely.

A researcher writing a related-work section has a narrower and harder problem. Not what the field is doing, but what one specific paper said, in one specific sentence.

Synthesis and support

Landscape tools synthesize: here is the shape of the area, with citations. That is the right output for a decision about where to invest.

It is not enough for a claim that will be reviewed. Lune answers at the level a reviewer checks at, returning the line that supports a sentence or reporting that it found none.

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

Incisively AI

Not published
Free trial request access

Incisively does not publish plan pricing on its site. Prices move; treat this as a snapshot, not a quote.

What we read

Questions

Is Lune an Incisively alternative?
For an individual researcher, often yes. For patent and clinical-trial monitoring across an R&D portfolio, Incisively covers what Lune does not index.
Does Lune cover patents?
No. It indexes peer-reviewed papers from top-tier venues and research methodology guidance.
Does Incisively connect to agents?
No MCP server or public API is listed on their site.

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