Litmaps

What is Litmaps?

Visual maps of related academic papers for literature reviews.

Who is Litmaps best for?

Litmaps is best for students and researchers doing literature reviews who want to map how related papers connect.

• Starting a literature review

  You begin from one or a few seed papers and it suggests related articles you may have missed, which speeds up a related work section.

• Seeing how a field fits together

  Papers sit on a visual map of how they cite each other, so the shape and history of a topic are easier to follow than in a list of search results.

• Keeping up with new papers

  Alerts flag new work on your topic, once a month on the free plan and weekly or on your own schedule with Pro.

• Labs and research groups

  The Team plan adds team-wide collaboration, so a group can build and share maps together instead of each person working alone.

How much does Litmaps cost?

Litmaps has a free plan with 2 Litmaps and up to 20 search inputs, and Pro costs $12.50 a month with an academic email or $50 a month for commercial use, or $10 and $40 a month billed yearly.

Billed yearly, Pro is $120 a year ($10 a month) for education and $480 a year ($40 a month) for commercial use, 20% less than monthly. The Team plan has the same limits as Pro plus team-wide collaboration and is priced on request, as is Litmaps Enterprise for institutions. Researchers working mainly in one of more than 100 low and middle income countries get a country discount code when they upgrade. Prices are in US dollars. Full pricing on litmaps.com. We checked these prices on 28 Sep 2026.

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