ResearchRabbit

What is ResearchRabbit?

What ResearchRabbit does

ResearchRabbit is a literature-review tool: you add papers you already trust, it finds related research and draws how they connect. The homepage claims access to over 320 million academic papers. It suits students and researchers starting a review from a few seed papers, and it is not a general writing assistant, despite how it was filed here.

Price and free access

The homepage says signing up is free. A Pricing link exists in the footer, but I could not load tier details, so I cannot say what paid plans add. The copyright notice reads Litmap Limited, 2016-2026, and recent updates suggest active development.

Who should skip it

Skip it if you need full-text reading, citations managed in a reference manager, or answers written for you. It points you to papers; you still read them. Coverage claims are the vendor's own and are not independently checked here.

Decision rule: if you have three or four good papers and need the next twenty, sign up free and try it. For summaries of paper contents, use a different tool.

Key features

• Paper discovery from seed papers
• Visual maps of related work
• Claimed 320M+ paper coverage
• Free sign-up
• Collections of papers

Use cases

• Starting a literature review
• Finding related work to a key paper
• Mapping a research field
• Keeping reading lists

ResearchRabbit pricing

As of October 2026 the homepage says sign-up is free. A pricing page is linked, but I could not retrieve plan prices, so none are listed.