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The Lens

Who runs The Lens, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest patent and scholarly search alternatives.

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

Measured from The Lens’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 The Lens

The Lens lens.org

The Lens serves all the patents and scholarly work in the world as an open and secure digital public good, with user privacy a paramount focus.

Wikidata: online article and patent search facility and knowledge resource

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

02 · Privacy

What The Lens 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 14 alternatives below have fewer, 2 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
1 tool

  • Visitor analytics

    Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.

  • Third-party embeds

    Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to The Lens

Fewer trackers than The LensNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

None of the 60 sites closest to The Lens 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 The Lens 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 · 12 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,222
Vector
384-d
Query
40 ms

Built with

JavaScript frameworks
JavaScript libraries
  • jQuery asset https://static.lens.org/lens/9.10.3/jquery.min.js
Analytics
  • Matomo page source: _paq.push(
Live chat & support
  • Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:amazo…
Security
Web servers
  • nginx header server: nginx
Video
  • Vimeo page source: player.vimeo.com/video
Email hosting
Email delivery
  • Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:amazo…
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)