# 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.

Competitor site: https://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: Search papers and patents -> Map the landscape -> Monitor for changes.
Lune: Search top-tier venues -> Read the full text -> Quote with a locator.

One tracks a field for a team. The other checks a sentence for a writer.

## Line by line

| Dimension | Lune | Incisively AI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| What is indexed | Top-tier venues, most papers in full text. | Publications, patents and clinical trials. |
| Who it is built for | A researcher and the agent they already run. | R&D and competitive-intelligence teams. |
| How deep a citation goes | A verbatim quote and its locator, per claim. | Synthesis with citations across sources. |
| Monitoring over time | New papers land as venues publish them. | Ongoing R&D activity monitoring and alerts. |
| Agent access | MCP and a CLI, on every plan. | No MCP server or public API listed on their site. |
| Published pricing | Free, $4.99 and $9.99 a month, or $47.90 and $95.90 a year. | None. Request a free trial. |

## 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.

## Pricing

- Lune Free: $0, 10 requests a day, every tool
- Lune Pro: $4.99, a month or $47.90 a year, 300 requests a day
- Lune Max: $9.99, a month or $95.90 a year, 600 requests a day
- Lune 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.

## 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.

## What we read

- [incisively.ai](https://incisively.ai)