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Lune vs Scite

Scite reads citation statements at scale and labels them supporting, contrasting or mentioning, across 1.6 billion citations. It is the closest thing in this list to what Lune does, and it points the evidence the other way round.

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If the first list is you, take Scite.

Choose Scite if

  • You want to know whether later work supported or disputed a finding.
  • Coverage across journals, preprints, books and patents matters.
  • A Zotero plugin and a browser extension fit your reading habits.

Choose Lune if

  • Your question is whether this paper supports your sentence.
  • You need the quote and its location, not a citation label.
  • Your field publishes at conferences and you want that full text.

From a question to a citation

Scite

  1. Look up a paper
  2. Read citing statements
  3. Supporting or contrasting

Lune

  1. Send the claim
  2. Read the full text
  3. Quote with a locator
Scite asks what the field said about a paper. Lune asks what a paper says about your claim.

Line by line

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

  • Which direction it reads

    Lune

    Into the paper, for the line behind a claim.

    Scite

    Outward from the paper, into what cites it.

  • What is indexed

    Lune

    Top-tier venues, most papers in full text.

    Scite

    Scite wins this row. 1.6B citations across 280M+ articles, books and patents.

  • What you get back

    Lune

    A verbatim quote and its locator, or nothing found.

    Scite

    Citation statements labelled supporting or contrasting.

  • Agent access

    Lune

    MCP and a CLI, on every plan.

    Scite

    An API and MCP compatibility with Claude and ChatGPT.

  • Methodology guidance

    Lune

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

    Scite

    Not offered.

  • Published pricing

    Lune

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

    Scite

    A trial plus paid plans; figures on their pricing page.

Where the difference comes from

The best idea in this category, pointed the other way

Scite's Smart Citations answer a question everyone should be asking and almost nobody was: not how many times a paper was cited, but whether the citations agreed with it. Citation counts reward attention; Scite reads what the citing sentence actually said.

That is a claim about the paper. Lune answers a claim about your sentence: does this source support what you wrote, and where. Both refuse to treat a citation as a number, and they arrive from opposite ends.

Where they overlap, and where they do not

Both ship MCP access, so an agent can call either. Scite reaches far more of the record, including journals, books and patents that Lune has no plans to index.

Lune reads a smaller set in full, which is what lets verify_claims return the supporting line rather than a label, and gather_evidence report what is still missing. If you can afford one, pick the direction your work fails in.

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

Scite

Trial
Free listed on their site
Paid
Published figures on their pricing page

Scite is part of the Research Solutions family; see their pricing page for current figures. Prices move; treat this as a snapshot, not a quote.

What we read

Questions

Is Lune a Scite alternative?
They solve adjacent problems. Scite tells you how the field received a paper; Lune tells you whether a paper supports your sentence.
Does Scite work with agents?
Yes. It publishes an API and lists MCP compatibility with Claude and ChatGPT, plus a Zotero plugin.
Can I use both?
That is the strongest setup on this page. Check the claim against the source with Lune, then check how later work received it with Scite.

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