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Lune vs SciSummary

SciSummary does one thing and prices it accordingly: send a paper, get a structured summary, ask about the figures. Lune is aimed at the step before and the step after.

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Start with the one you should not buy from us

If the first list is you, take SciSummary.

Choose SciSummary if

  • Your inbox is full of PDFs and reading time is the only problem.
  • You want figure interpretation and bulk summaries for a few dollars.
  • Your papers come from journals Lune does not index.

Choose Lune if

  • You do not yet know which papers matter.
  • You need quotes that survive a reviewer opening the reference.
  • You compare methods and want a table, not a stack of summaries.

From a question to a citation

SciSummary

  1. Send a paper
  2. Summarize it
  3. A shorter paper

Lune

  1. Find the papers
  2. Read the full text
  3. Quote with a locator
One shortens a paper you have. The other finds it and pulls the line out.

Line by line

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

  • The job it does

    Lune

    Find, quote, compare and verify across a curated index.

    SciSummary

    Summarize and explain papers you supply.

  • Discovery

    Lune

    Lune wins this row. Search, sweep and related-paper tools over the index.

    SciSummary

    You bring the papers.

  • How deep a citation goes

    Lune

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

    SciSummary

    Summaries preserve the paper's own citations.

  • Agent access

    Lune

    MCP and a CLI, on every plan.

    SciSummary

    A ChatGPT connector, published as an MCP server.

  • Entry price

    Lune

    $4.99 a month ($47.90 a year), or free for 10 requests a day.

    SciSummary

    SciSummary wins this row. $4 a month, billed as $48 a year.

Where the difference comes from

Two different bottlenecks

If you already have the twenty papers that matter and cannot get through them, SciSummary is the cheaper and more direct answer. We would rather say so than pretend otherwise.

Lune's bottleneck starts earlier. Which twenty papers? Which of them reports the number you are about to cite? Was the method proposed in the paper everyone credits, or in the one it cites? That needs an index and a citation graph.

A summary is a lossy copy

Summaries are useful, and they are exactly where precision goes missing. A number loses its confidence interval. A claim loses the condition it held under. A limitation the authors stated plainly becomes a caveat that did not fit.

Lune keeps the original text in reach, so your agent can still summarize, then go back to the source without leaving the conversation.

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

SciSummary

Free trial
$0 7 days
Pro
$4 a month, billed as $48 a year

SciSummary also advertises a free first month for students. Prices move; treat this as a snapshot, not a quote.

What we read

Questions

Is Lune a SciSummary alternative?
Only if your problem is finding and verifying rather than reading. For bulk summarizing of papers you hold, SciSummary is cheaper and more direct.
Does Lune summarize papers?
Your agent does, from full text Lune returns. There is no separate summarizing product.
Is Lune cheaper?
No. SciSummary works out to $4 a month annually; Lune's Pro is $4.99 monthly. Lune's free plan is permanent rather than a trial.

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