How much does ResearchRabbit cost?
- Free plan
- Yes
- Enterprise
- Contact sales
In your favor
- No long-term contract. Monthly payments, cancel any time
- Free plan. Free Forever tier: unlimited searches, unlimited library and collections, sharing collections, up to 50 seed articles, core search settings
Watch out for
- Their pages disagree: Number of academic papers. "Access over 320 million academic papers" vs "Unlimited searches across 310+ million articles"
How you buy and get started
- Sign up
- Free sign-up through the web app "Sign up - it's free"
- Setup
- Not stated
- When sales steps in
- Institution plan is contact-sales "Contact Us"
- Support
- Faster support responses on RR+ "Faster support responses"
- Support
- Dedicated support on Institution plan "Dedicated support"
What ResearchRabbit does
ResearchRabbit analyzes papers a user selects and recommends related research, authors and topics, shown as a visual map of connections. It works with a reference library and states access to over 320 million academic papers.
- Good for
- Students and researchers doing literature reviews, plus institutions that want library integration and user management.
- Channels
- Web app
- Main product
- ResearchRabbit: paper discovery and literature review mapping
- Also includes
- Unlimited searches across 310+ million articles, Unlimited library and collections, Collaborate by sharing your collection, Seed articles (50 free, 300 on RR+), Advanced search controls (RR+), Multiple projects (RR+)
- Connects to
- LibKey, Reference manager
- Public API
- Not stated
- MCP server
- Not stated
- Inline source citationsNot stated
- Multi-step deep research reportsNot stated
- Academic paper database search
Unlimited searches across 310+ million articles
- Upload and query own documentsNot stated
- Connects to internal appsNot stated
- Shared team workspace
Collaborate by sharing your collection
- SSO and enterprise securityNot stated
- No training on customer dataNot stated
- Export reports and tablesNot stated
- API accessNot stated
The same 10 checks appear on every tool in AI research assistants. Each tick quotes the vendor's own site.
Security and your data
| Question | Their answer | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|
| Trains AI on your data? | Not stated | |
| HIPAA (signs a BAA) | Not stated | |
| SOC 2 | Not stated | |
| GDPR | Not stated | |
| CCPA | Not stated | |
| PCI | Not stated | |
| ISO 27001 | Not stated | |
| Single sign-on | Not stated | |
| Trust center | Not stated |
Security answers are the vendor's own claims, quoted. We don't audit them.
Every plan
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Included | Over the allowance | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ResearchRabbit+ ( plan)per month | $12.50 | $10per month | 300 seed articles | – | "**$10\* per month**" "**$12.5\* per month**" |
| Free | – | – | 50 seed articles | – | "$0, Forever!" |
| Institution | Quote | – | – | – | "Empowering research at scale" |
Free plan: Free Forever tier: unlimited searches, unlimited library and collections, sharing collections, up to 50 seed articles, core search settings
Fine print
- Billing increment
- Not stated
- Billed beyond usage
- Not stated
- Contract
- Monthly payments, cancel any time "RR+ is a premium subscription with monthly payments. You can unsubscribe at any time."
- Refunds
- Not stated
- Auto renew
- Not stated
- Price change notice
- Not stated
"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.
About the company
- Legal name
- Litmap Limited
- Online since
- Nov 25, 2019 Domain registration date
- Customers
- "Trusted by 1,000,000+ researchers worldwide" their claim
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Questions
Is ResearchRabbit free?
Yes. Free Forever tier: unlimited searches, unlimited library and collections, sharing collections, up to 50 seed articles, core search settings Paid plans start at $12.50/month.
How much does ResearchRabbit cost?
Paid plans start at $10 per month billed yearly, or $12.50 billed monthly.