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bioRxiv

Who runs bioRxiv, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest preprint server alternatives.

Who’s behind it: Not stated
Online since: Unknown
Trackers
Prices: No pricing page
Last price change: –
Closest alternative: medRxiv

Measured from bioRxiv’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs bioRxiv

bioRxiv biorxiv.org

bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by openRxiv, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing scientific communication

Wikidata: preprint service

Company: No imprint we could read
Online since: Not in the Internet Archive
Audience: In English

02 · Privacy

What bioRxiv tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

10 of the 11 alternatives below have fewer, 0 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →

Cookie banner: None found
US company: 2 tools

Visitor analytics

Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
- Google AnalyticsUS
Tag manager

Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
- Google Tag ManagerUS

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to bioRxiv

Fewer trackers than bioRxiv No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan Only in English

None of the 60 sites closest to bioRxiv match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · History

What changed

Price and policy history →

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what bioRxiv adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack and search numbers · 11 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,221
Vector: 384-d
Query: 35 ms

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CMS: Drupal header x-generator: Drupal 7 (http://drupal.org)
CSS & UI: Font Awesome asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@fortawesome/fontawesome-free@6.7.2/css/all.min.css
Analytics: Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
Tag managers: Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-
CDN: Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5631c617e3962d1-HAM
jsDelivr asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/
Languages & backends: PHP implied by Drupal (header x-generator: Drupal 7 (http://drupal.org))
Email hosting: Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms36527074
Mimecast MX usb-smtp-inbound-1.mimecast.com
DNS hosting: Cloudflare DNS NS jen.ns.cloudflare.com
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: lH38pX61A6XH6RNu01u4WWWT9UnF9WhcST6isHEJv-I

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.