# Covidence review (2026): is it worth $339 a year? > Web platform for screening and extracting data in systematic reviews Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Covidence is a web platform that holds a systematic review in one place: setup, reference import, screening, data extraction, quality assessment and export. Dual screening, blinding and conflict resolution are part of the process. It is owned by the non-profit Future Evidence Foundation. - **Category:** AI Research Tools - **Made by:** Covidence - **Website:** https://www.covidence.org - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you're a student: the page says there's no separate student discount. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Covidence is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $339 per year for one review. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** Free trial with 500 records. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Single | $339 per year for 1 review | One review with unlimited collaborators, valid for 12 months. | | Package | $907 per year for up to 3 reviews | Up to 3 reviews with unlimited collaborators, valid for 12 months. | | Institutions | Custom | Departmental or organization-wide licenses with unlimited reviews and users, arranged through sales. | Read from https://www.covidence.org/pricing/ on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Covidence before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Concessions for low and lower-middle-income countries** (Other savings): Review teams based in a low or lower-middle-income country can contact Covidence about using it for their review. Source: https://www.covidence.org/pricing/ ## Key features - **Import and deduplication:** References come in from EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley, RefWorks or RIS, CSV and PubMed XML files, with duplicates removed automatically. - **Dual screening:** Independent dual screening, blinding and structured conflict resolution are described as standard, and exclusion reasons are recorded at full-text stage. - **Data extraction and quality assessment:** Extraction and quality assessment are steps inside the same review, so the team works on one copy of the data. - **Mobile screening:** Every plan lists title and abstract screening on a phone. - **PRISMA numbers and export:** The site says PRISMA numbers and the audit trail build as the team works, and the review can be exported. ## Good for - Review teams whose library or institution already holds a license - Authors of Cochrane-style systematic reviews - Single reviews bought with a credit card ## Worth knowing - Each paid license covers a set number of reviews for 12 months: 1 for $339 or up to 3 for $907. - The pricing page says there is no separate student discount, though it offers concessions to review teams in low and lower-middle-income countries. - More than three reviews means buying several packages or an institutional license. - The pages read show it as a browser-based service; no desktop or app-store apps are listed. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Covidence runs a systematic review from import and duplicate removal through screening and data extraction to PRISMA numbers. It charges per review, $339 a year for one, and there is no student discount. - **Value for money: D.** $339 a year for one review, $907 for up to three. That works out to about $28 a month for one review, inside the research category's dearest tenth, which starts at $20. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A free trial with 500 records. The page does not say whether a card is needed, and 500 records is smaller than most reviews. - **Features: B.** Import, dual screening, extraction, quality assessment, mobile screening and PRISMA numbers. Nothing in the listing shows a gap in the review work itself. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You set up a review, invite reviewers and set criteria before anything happens. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, with EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley, RefWorks and RevMan. No desktop or app-store apps are listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Covidence's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among AI research tools - Covidence's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 7 of the 49 other AI research tools we grade, and level with 11. - It stands best on features (B, above 34 of 49) and worst on value for money (D, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $28.25 a month when paid by the year, against a middle price of $10 for the category: 34 of the 35 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 6 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-research ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Covidence you would be making a library of papers and sources to search. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 31 of the 49 other AI research tools grade higher. It costs $339 a year. - You could not: A library of papers and sources to search. - You could not: Citation records for millions of papers. - You could not: Several people working in it at the same moment. - You could not: It plugs into other products, EndNote, Zotero and Mendeley among them. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley, RefWorks, RevMan **Tags:** Research, Citations, Real-time collaboration, AI features ## Alternatives - [Rayyan](https://toolgpa.com/tools/rayyan): Systematic review screening with AI relevance predictions. 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[Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/covidence-vs-iris-ai) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.covidence.org/pricing/ - https://www.covidence.org - https://www.covidence.org/reviewers/ - https://www.covidence.org/about-us-covidence/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/covidence Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).