lens.org
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.
Visit The Lens01 · 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
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to The Lens
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to The Lens, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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OpenAlex: The open catalog to the global research system
OpenAlex indexes half a billion scholarly works, with their authors, institutions, sources and topics, and makes them free to search, analyze and reuse through our web app, API and bulk download.
Very close - 02
Dimensions AI | The most advanced scientific research database
From idea to impact: Quickly navigate and connect grants, publications, datasets, clinical trials, patents, and policy documents.
Very close - 03
online bibliographic database
Very close - 04
Semantic Scholar | AI-Powered Research Tool
Semantic Scholar uses groundbreaking AI and engineering to understand the semantics of scientific literature to help Scholars discover relevant research.
Very close - 05
database of biomedical research
Very close - 06
Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
Very close - 07
维普网
维普官方网站-一站式学术资源检索平台，汇聚国内外期刊、会议论文、学位论文、专利、报纸等多元化学术资源，覆盖广泛学术领域，满足您各类学术需求；采用先进的智能检索技术，支持多维度检索，同时提供高级检索、专业检索等模式，满足不同用户的精细化需求；提供文献引证追踪、科学指标分析等功能，助用户洞悉学术脉络，把握研究前沿；支持在线阅读、一键下载等多种便捷功能，让用户随时随地享受学术盛宴。个性化设置功能，让学术空间更加贴合个人需求，提升科研效率。
Very close - 08
Brazil
digital library
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Client Challenge
non-profit educational organization
Very close - 10
PostgreSQL: The world's most advanced open source database
The official site for PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database
Very close - 11
Home | LibreTexts
open access educational resource collection
Very close - 12
Making sure you're not a bot!
legal database
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WorldCat.org
WorldCat.org is a global catalog of library materials. You can search for books, music, video, articles and much more at libraries near you.
Very close - 14
Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
Very close - 15
Zenodo
research data repository
Very close - 16
Statista - The Statistics Portal for Market Data, Market Research and Market Studies
Find statistics, consumer survey results and industry studies from over 22,500 sources on over 60,000 topics on the internet's leading statistics database
Very close - 17
Home - DBpedia Association
DBpedia provides a platform for data, tools and services. Explore current projects and applications and learn about DBpedia datasets.
Very close - 18
online edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica
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American website specializing in legal information retrieval
Very close - 20
Search the CPAN - metacpan.org
open source search engine for the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN)
Close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles The Lens’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones The Lens uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
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, the competitor map and search numbers · 12 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,196
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 23 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to The Lens’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- AngularJS page source: ng-app="
- 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
- Cloudflare Turnstile page source: challenges.cloudflare.com/turnstile
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Video
- Vimeo page source: player.vimeo.com/video
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms10896640
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:amazo…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1722.awsdns-23.co.uk
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=q5jhjotPiZfs1BSXWUut3MvFAI9mmBh0zp2Xzy_JSEs
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 12/20
- Google Workspace 12/20
- Cloudflare · not on lens.org 8/20
- Amazon Route 53 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on lens.org 5/20
- GlobalSign · not on lens.org 5/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on lens.org 5/20
- Google Fonts · not on lens.org 4/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on lens.org 4/20
- jQuery 4/20
- OneTrust · not on lens.org 4/20
- Microsoft 365 4/20
- Vue.js · not on lens.org 3/20
- PHP · not on lens.org 3/20
- Google Analytics · not on lens.org 3/20
- Font Awesome · not on lens.org 3/20