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OpenAlex

Who runs OpenAlex, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest bibliographic database alternatives.

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

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs OpenAlex

OpenAlex openalex.org

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.

Wikidata: open catalog of scholarly papers, authors, institutions, venues, and concepts

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

02 · Privacy

What OpenAlex 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

None of the 12 alternatives below has fewer; 10 have more.

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

  • Third-party embeds

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

  • Privacy-friendly analytics

    Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to OpenAlex

No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

None of the 60 sites closest to OpenAlex 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 OpenAlex 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 · 10 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,221
Vector
384-d
Query
95 ms

Built with

JavaScript frameworks
  • Nuxt page source: /_nuxt/
  • Vue.js implied by Nuxt (page source: /_nuxt/)
Fonts
Analytics
  • Plausible asset https://plausible.io/js/script.file-downloads.outbound-links.pageview-props.tagged-events…
Live chat & support
  • Zendesk page source: static.zdassets.com
Security
CDN
Email hosting
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)