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iNaturalist
Who runs iNaturalist, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest citizen science biodiversity alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Observation.org
Measured from iNaturalist’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit iNaturalist01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs iNaturalist
iNaturalist inaturalist.org
iNaturalist is a social network for naturalists! Record your observations of plants and animals, share them with friends and researchers, and learn about the natural world.
Wikidata: citizen science project and website
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What iNaturalist 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.
tracker that follows visitors
6 of the 19 alternatives below have fewer, 7 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to iNaturalist
None of the 60 sites closest to iNaturalist 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 iNaturalist 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 · 6 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 49 ms
Built with
- CSS & UI
- Font Awesome asset https://www.inaturalist.org/assets/font-awesome-984749df86781cc8bb037169d69b5f93ce36ed5be…
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5631d785cf2ffcf-HAM
- Languages & backends
- Ruby on Rails page source: <meta name="csrf-param" content="authenticity_token"
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: zTQkjSSm7eCNxRXMpYtLCHK00zeRWPrSFJIgJPBnjKc
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on inaturalist.org 15/20
- jQuery · not on inaturalist.org 8/20
- PHP · not on inaturalist.org 8/20
- Cloudflare 7/20
- Apple Business · not on inaturalist.org 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on inaturalist.org 7/20
- Google Workspace 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on inaturalist.org 6/20
- Mailchimp · not on inaturalist.org 6/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on inaturalist.org 6/20
- SendGrid · not on inaturalist.org 6/20
- Mailchimp Transactional · not on inaturalist.org 5/20
- Google Analytics 5/20
- Google Fonts · not on inaturalist.org 5/20
- WordPress · not on inaturalist.org 5/20