Anara vs Rayyan (2026)

Anara

by Anara Labs

Rayyan

by Rayyan

Pros

• ✓Every answer and every extraction-table cell links to the exact passage it came from, and paper search covers more than 300 million papers.
• ✓Connects the tools research teams already use, including Zotero, Mendeley, Google Drive, OneDrive, Benchling and Synapse, plus PubMed and ClinicalTrials.gov.
• ✓Works both ways over MCP: it calls custom MCP servers on Pro and above, and other AI assistants can work in a workspace through Anara's own MCP server.

Limitations

• –Single sign-on with SAML and SCIM, admin controls and a HIPAA business associate agreement are only on the quote-only Enterprise plan.
• –Deep Search and Model Council start at Max, $80 a month per seat billed yearly, and science-database and app connectors need Plus or above.
• –Anara's SOC 2 Type II report and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certificate were both still in progress in November 2026, and HIPAA support is offered on request.

Pros

• ✓A usable free plan with duplicate detection and AI relevance predictions, and paid seats from $4.99/mo billed annually.
• ✓Covers the whole screening workflow in one place: import, duplicates, blind screening, full-text review, data extraction, risk of bias and PRISMA diagrams.
• ✓Rayyan says it is used by more than 1 million researchers at more than 30,000 institutions, and it offers iOS and Android apps that screen offline.

Limitations

• –It screens references a team has already gathered; it does not search literature databases for them.
• –ResearchPilot's AI Reviewer starts on the Business/Academic plan at $2,500 a year for 5 licenses, and the API and SSO need the custom-priced Enterprise plan.
• –A thin independent review record: no G2 reviews, 3.1 stars from 248 reviews on Google Play and 3.9 from 25 ratings on the App Store, and SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 are shown as engagements rather than completed certifications.