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SysRevAI vs revisia: AI helps, the team decides
revisia is a Spanish platform that hands much of the review over to AI and charges per review. SysRevAI covers the same workflow for the whole team, with AI as optional help, no per-review fee and the data on your server.
In 30 seconds
Cost: €0 for up to 10 users and unlimited reviews. revisia costs €249 to €999 per review, with 12 months of AI.
Team: blinded screening between people, a third reviewer and Cohen’s and Fleiss’ kappa. revisia does not document reviews with more than one person.
Privacy: the data and the AI key belong to your institution. revisia stores the data in its cloud and uses AI from US providers.
Open source: AGPL-3.0. You can audit it and you are not locked in to any vendor.
Detailed comparison
Stage by stage, what each one includes. revisia’s prices are the published ones, in euros including VAT, with a one-off payment per review.
| Feature | SysRevAI | revisia |
|---|---|---|
| Model and cost | ||
| Licence | Yes: Open source, AGPL-3.0 | Not listed as open source |
| Where it runs | Yes: On your server, or hosted by us | No: Only in revisia’s cloud |
| Price | Yes: €0 for up to 10 users; Institution tailored | Partial: Standard €249, Pro €499 and Premium €999 per review; +1,000 records, €99 |
| Limits | Yes: Unlimited reviews and records | Partial: Depends on the plan: 3,000 to 13,000 records with AI; the rest by hand |
| Duration | Yes: No expiry | Partial: 12 months of AI; after that, the project becomes read-only |
| Trial | Yes: 30 days on our server, up to 6 people | Yes: Free plan: 100 records screened with AI |
| Privacy and security | ||
| Where the data is stored | Yes: On your server; you decide its location and backups | Partial: Cloudflare in western Europe; backups in Germany and the EU |
| AI and data | Yes: Optional, with your institution’s key (Anthropic); only the text of each action is sent | Partial: US providers, not named on the security page |
| Auditable code | Yes: Yes, it is public | Not listed |
| Access | Yes: Roles, two-step verification and an activity log | Partial: Audit log of decisions |
| Search and import | ||
| Built-in search | Yes: PubMed, OpenAlex, CrossRef and Europe PMC at once | Yes: Strategy built from the question across PubMed, Europe PMC, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar and ClinicalTrials.gov |
| Living reviews | Yes: Saved searches that run again on their own | Not listed |
| Import | Yes: RIS, BibTeX, PubMed, CSV and others | Yes: Web of Science, Scopus, Embase, CINAHL, Cochrane, Zotero and EndNote |
| Duplicates | Yes: Three passes (DOI/PMID, title, similarity) and an AI check | Not listed |
| Screening | ||
| Who decides | Yes: The team; AI prioritises and pre-screens with a threshold, if you want | Partial: AI rates each criterion and code decides; borderline records go to human review |
| Modes | Yes: Blind, double blind, double blind with a third reviewer, and pilot | Partial: You can review blind as the AI’s second reviewer |
| Teamwork | Yes: Roles, invitations and references assigned per reviewer | Not listed |
| Agreement | Yes: Cohen’s and Fleiss’ kappa between people | Partial: Cohen’s kappa between you and the AI |
| On your phone | Yes: Native iOS and Android apps, offline too | Not listed |
| Full text | ||
| Getting the PDFs | Yes: Automatic retrieval from 9 legal open-access sources | Partial: Unpaywall, if there is a direct link; otherwise, manual upload |
| Full-text screening | Yes: PDF next to the criteria, mandatory reason and AI proposal | Yes: With exclusion reasons per criterion; AI on paid plans |
| Extraction and quality | ||
| Data extraction | Yes: Templates with the PDF alongside and an AI-filled draft | Yes: Evidence table with verified verbatim quotes; AI on paid plans |
| Risk of bias | Yes: RoB 2, ROBINS-I, QUADAS-2, PROBAST, Newcastle-Ottawa and JBI | Yes: RoB 2, RoB 1, ROBINS-I, ROBINS-E, QUADAS-2, PROBAST, Newcastle-Ottawa and JBI |
| Synthesis, reports and team | ||
| PRISMA 2020 | Yes: Automatic, as editable SVG | Yes: Diagram with the project’s counts, and checklist |
| GRADE | Yes: Summary of findings table in Word and CSV | Not listed |
| Meta-analysis and RevMan | Yes: CSV for metafor or Stata and export to RevMan 5 | Not listed |
| Writing | Yes: Editor with the Copilot and AI critical report on articles | Yes: AI manuscript draft, on paid plans |
| AI-use statement | Yes: Word document to attach to the publication | Not listed |
| API | Yes: REST API in every edition | Not listed |
| Support | Yes: Tickets from inside the platform, Community included; Institution includes installation on the organisation’s servers | Partial: By e-mail; priority on the Premium plan |
included · partial or depends on the plan · not available · “Not listed”: not found in revisia’s public documentation.
When revisia may be the better choice
We say it plainly, so you can choose well:
- You work alone and want AI to do most of the screening and write you a draft manuscript.
- You want no server and no AI key of your own to manage.
If you have no server, the hosted SysRevAI plan saves you installing anything, and the 30-day trial is free.
Move from revisia to SysRevAI in three steps
- In revisia, export the references (exporting is always free).
- In SysRevAI, create the review and import the file: duplicates are detected automatically.
- Invite the team and carry on: blinded screening, full text, extraction, risk of bias and GRADE.
Frequently asked questions
How is it different from revisia?
revisia has AI make most of the decisions and charges for them per review. In SysRevAI the people on the team decide, with blinded screening between them, and AI is optional help you pay Anthropic for directly, with a budget you set.
How much does a review cost in SysRevAI?
Nothing. The Community edition includes every feature, up to 10 users per domain and unlimited reviews, with no expiry. In revisia, a review costs between €249 and €999, depending on the number of records, and the AI can be used for 12 months.
Can I carry on without AI?
Yes. In SysRevAI, AI is optional at every step: you can do the whole review by hand and turn it on only where it saves you work. Every use is recorded in the review’s AI-use statement.
Try SysRevAI for 30 days, nothing to install
Create an account, import the references you have in revisia and compare for yourself.
Sources: revisia.es, revisia.es/precios, revisia.es/seguridad and the guide at revisia.es/guia, checked on 30 October 2026. Third-party prices and features may change; if you spot outdated data, write to us and we will fix it. revisia is a trademark of its owners. This page is not affiliated with or endorsed by revisia.