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Lune · House #35,941

The search engine built for scientific AI agents

In the Researchers and labs neighborhood (Industry). In town since 10 Oct 2026.

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What Tablif read on Lune's site

Lune describes itself as: “Lune Research | AI Research, Free of AI Slop”

What it is

Calls itself “search engine”.

  • Calls itself: search engine
“The search engine built for scientific AI agents”

Where it puts itself

Positions itself as an alternative to Exa.ai. Claims “Highest quality”. Rules out “paywalled articles”. Publishes a comparison page.

  • Alternative to: Exa.ai
  • Superlative claim: Highest quality
  • Says it will not: paywalled articles
“Unlike REALM [ 1 ] , which trains a latent retriever against a masked language modeling objective, and Fusion-in-Decoder [ 2 ] , which encodes passages independently and fuses them in the decoder, our method reranks before generation to keep the reader's context budget small.”
“Lune is Exa.ai for scientific research.”

What it costs

Monthly subscription and yearly plan. A free tier up to a usage limit. 4 prices listed on its pages, from $0 to $10.

  • Monthly: yes
  • Yearly: yes
  • Free plan: free up to a limit
  • Price: 4 prices, from $0 to $10
“$0 10 requests / day”
“Top up with credits at $0.99 for 300 extra requests.”

Who it sells to

Made for researchers and students.

  • Made for: researchers · students
“Used by students and researchers from”

How it runs

A command-line tool. Runs locally and works offline. Hosted in the cloud. Distributed through the npm. AI is the core of the product.

  • Kind: cli
  • Runs where: cloud / hosted · on the device, offline
  • Distributed via: npm
  • AI role: core to the product
“Use Lune without leaving the terminal. npm install -g @retrograde-labs/lune-cli”
“The product is the toolset. Agents connect through the hosted Streamable HTTP MCP server , an official connector or plugin, or the published local MCP package.”

What it works with

Names @retrograde-labs/lune-cli, Antigravity and 5 more on its pages.

  • Names: @retrograde-labs/lune-cli · Antigravity · ChatGPT · +4
“…npm install -g @retrograde-labs/lune-cli”
“Claude Code ChatGPT Cursor Antigravity Perplexity”

What it offers as proof

Live, no waitlist. Try it without signing up. Publishes docs and a blog.

  • Instant signup: yes
  • Trial asks for: nothing
“Sign up free”
“Free to start. No credit card required.”

Sources

Tablif read these pages, last on 10 Oct 2026. Everything above is what the product says about itself; Tablif does not verify every claim.

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