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Lune vs Roundtable

Roundtable searches 30 million open-access papers and 30,000 licensable technologies to find the lab or person you should be talking to. Lune searches far less, reads it in full, and never introduces you to anyone.

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If the first list is you, take Roundtable.

Choose Roundtable if

  • You are looking for a collaborator, a lab or a licensable technology.
  • Grants and open-access coverage matter more than full text.
  • Free is the deciding factor.

Choose Lune if

  • You are writing something that has to hold up, not partnering with someone.
  • You need the exact sentence a claim rests on.
  • You want the retrieval inside your agent through MCP.

From a question to a citation

Roundtable

  1. Search papers and labs
  2. Match technologies
  3. Reach out

Lune

  1. Search top-tier venues
  2. Read the full text
  3. Quote with a locator
One question is who to talk to. The other is what the paper said.

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.

    Roundtable

    Roundtable wins this row. 30M+ open-access papers, 30K+ technologies, labs, grants.

  • The question it answers

    Lune

    What does the literature say about this claim?

    Roundtable

    Who should I be working with?

  • How deep a citation goes

    Lune

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

    Roundtable

    Papers and labs surfaced for you to contact.

  • Agent access

    Lune

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

    Roundtable

    Docs exist; no MCP server listed on their site.

  • Price

    Lune

    Free for 10 requests a day, then $4.99 a month or $47.90 a year.

    Roundtable

    Roundtable wins this row. Free.

  • Methodology guidance

    Lune

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

    Roundtable

    Not offered.

Where the difference comes from

Discovery of people, not passages

Roundtable indexes open-access literature to answer a question Lune never asks: which lab, which technology, which person. Its unit is the researcher and the institution, and for finding a partner that is the right unit.

Lune's unit is the sentence. Neither can substitute for the other, and using both costs nothing extra since Roundtable is free.

Open access is a real corpus decision

Restricting to open access is a defensible line: everything indexed can be read by anyone who finds it. It also excludes plenty of the work that matters in fields where the proceedings are not open.

Lune's line is drawn on the venue instead, and it indexes full text where it has the right to. Different constraints, both worth knowing before you rely on either.

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

Roundtable

Free
$0 no paid tier listed

Roundtable lists no paid plans on its site. Prices move; treat this as a snapshot, not a quote.

What we read

Questions

Is Lune a Roundtable alternative?
No. Roundtable finds collaborators and technologies; Lune grounds claims in full-text papers. They answer different questions.
Does Lune find collaborators?
No. It searches papers, citations and methodology guidance.
Can they be used together?
Easily. Roundtable is free, and nothing about the two overlaps.

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