# 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.

Competitor site: https://roundtablehub.com.

## 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: Search papers and labs -> Match technologies -> Reach out.
Lune: Search top-tier venues -> Read the full text -> Quote with a locator.

One question is who to talk to. The other is what the paper said.

## Line by line

| Dimension | Lune | Roundtable |
| --- | --- | --- |
| What is indexed | Top-tier venues, most papers in full text. | 30M+ open-access papers, 30K+ technologies, labs, grants. |
| The question it answers | What does the literature say about this claim? | Who should I be working with? |
| How deep a citation goes | A verbatim quote and its locator, per claim. | Papers and labs surfaced for you to contact. |
| Agent access | MCP and a CLI, on every plan. | Docs exist; no MCP server listed on their site. |
| Price | Free for 10 requests a day, then $4.99 a month or $47.90 a year. | Free. |
| Methodology guidance | A corpus on peer review, ablations and venue choice. | Not offered. |

## 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.

## 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
- Roundtable Free: $0, no paid tier listed

Roundtable lists no paid plans on its site.

## 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.

## What we read

- [roundtablehub.com](https://roundtablehub.com)