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ResearchRabbit vs Sysrev
Both stand on literature review software. Which one you can start free with, which one lets you read the code, and what each costs once you pay.
ResearchRabbit offers literature discovery, visual mapping, and collection sharing, with a free tier and paid upgrades. Its listed scope does not include screening workflows, full-text management, or systematic review tools.
Visit ResearchRabbitChoose Sysrev for evidence review projects that need flexible inputs, structured extraction, and multiple export formats. Basic offers unlimited public projects and reviewers at no cost. Look to Premium for private projects, analytics, and Auto Labeler, or Enterprise for institutional SSO and other listed institutional options.
Visit SysrevThe facts
| ResearchRabbit | Sysrev | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | Not published | No |
| Runs on | Web | API, Self-hosted, Web |
| Lowest paid plan | See the plans | Premium: $50 per member a month |
| Plans published | 6 | 3 |
| Maker | Not published | Not published |
| Website | researchrabbit.ai | sysrev.com |
| On literature review software | #22 of 28 | #18 of 28 |
ResearchRabbit: what it does well
- Free plan searches across more than 310 million articles
- Interactive maps connect papers, authors, and concepts
- Imports selected articles from Zotero collections
- Exports articles as BibTeX
- Free users can share collections
What to know first
- Free plan is limited to 50 seed articles
- No screening workflow
- No full-text management or systematic review tools
- ResearchRabbit+ costs $12.50 a month on the monthly plan
Sysrev: what it does well
- Projects can review PDFs, abstracts, text, or structured JSON.
- Supports four kinds of data extraction labels.
- Imports records from five listed file formats.
- Exports project data in EndNote XML, Excel, and Parquet.
- Built-in search covers PubMed and OpenAlex.
What to know first
- Imported records cannot be deduplicated.
- Auto-labeler runs require project funds.
- Basic includes public projects only.
- API keys are for Premium and Enterprise users.
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