Meta-analysis360 - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

Meta-analysis360 is a systematic review and meta-analysis platform that runs a review from the first question to the forest plot, in the browser, with no installation.

It covers the whole pipeline: framing the question, drafting the protocol against the PROSPERO fields, building the search, screening titles and abstracts and then full texts, extracting data into a form you set up, appraising risk of bias, pooling the results, and reporting them with the PRISMA 2020 flow diagram.

What makes it different is what it keeps. Every screening decision is stored with the written reason it rests on, so a reviewer reads the reason rather than re-reading the abstract. Every value read from a paper is stored with the verbatim sentence and the page it came from, so checking a number means looking at a quotation rather than trusting a summary.

The whole pipeline is free to run by hand, on two projects with unlimited collaborators. You pay only for more AI help: AI screening, AI planning and protocol drafting, and on the higher plan AI full-text screening and extraction from PDFs.

The reviewer stays in charge at every step: you set the criteria, see every decision with its reason and can overturn any, every change is recorded, and the record is what gets exported.

Free tools need no account: a PRISMA 2020 flow diagram generator that computes every derived box and checks the counts reconcile, a PROSPERO protocol template, a forest plot generator, data extraction and risk of bias templates, a Cohen's kappa calculator, a dual screening sample size calculator and an effect size converter. A free Academy teaches every stage of a review.

The platform is tested by re-running published meta-analyses against each review's own list of included studies; the results and their limits are set out on the site's evidence page.