osf.io
OSF
Who runs OSF, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest research data repository alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Dataverse
Measured from OSF’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit OSF01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs OSF
OSF osf.io
Wikidata: tools that make open science practice easier
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What OSF 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
8 of the 16 alternatives below have fewer, 2 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to OSF
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to OSF, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read osf.io’s homepage (too little text on the homepage), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
- 01 Dataverse dataverse.org
open source web application to share, preserve, cite, explore and analyze research data
Very close - 02
Zenodo
research data repository
Very close - 03 Figshare figshare.com
research output digital online sharing platform; operated by Figshare LLP, part of Digital Science
Very close - 04
Dryad | Publish and preserve your data
American nonprofit organization; oversees Dryad Digital Repository
Very close - 05
arXiv.org e-Print archive
online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers
Very close - 06
Crossref
Crossref is open infrastructure linking the world's research. 26,500 members, 171 countries, 2.1 billion monthly API queries.
Very close - 07
open access eLibrary; part of Elsevier
Very close - 08
DataCite – Connecting Research, Advancing Knowledge - DataCite
international not-for-profit organization which aims to improve data citation
Very close - 09
Leading the future of open science publishing - PLOS
Discover how we are transforming scholarly publishing with a mission-driven commitment to open science, research integrity, and innovation that benefits researchers, institutions, and society worldwide.
Very close - 10
MariaDB Foundation - MariaDB.org
database management system, relational, open source, community developed fork of MySQL
Very close - 11
Liberapay
We help you fund the creators and projects you appreciate.
Very close - 12
ORCID
non-profit organization that issues ORCID Identifiers
Very close - 13
Joomla Content Management System (CMS) - try it! It's free!
Joomla! is the mobile-ready and user-friendly way to build your website. Choose from thousands of features and designs. Joomla! is free and open source.
Very close - 14
Making sure you're not a bot!
French research institution in computer science
Very close - 15 Preprints.org preprints.org
open-access repository
Very close - 16
medRxiv.org - the preprint server for Health Sciences
medRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by openRxiv, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing scientific communication
Very close - 17
Codeberg.org
Codeberg is a non-profit community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.
Very close - 18
NLnet Labs - Home
Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.
Very close - 19
Wikimedia
The Wikimedia movement is a global community of people, projects, and activities working together to create and share knowledge freely.
Very close - 20
Apache OpenOffice - Official Site - The Free and Open Productivity Suite
The official home page of the Apache OpenOffice open source project, home of OpenOffice Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw and Base.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles OSF’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones OSF 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 OSF 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 · 5 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 42 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to OSF’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
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 include:servers.mcsv.net include:mailgun.org include:spf.mandr…
- Email delivery
- Mailchimp Transactional TXT v=spf1 include:servers.mcsv.net include:mailgun.org include:spf.mandr…
- Mailgun TXT v=spf1 include:servers.mcsv.net include:mailgun.org include:spf.mandr…
- DNS hosting
- Google Cloud DNS NS ns-cloud-e2.googledomains.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=Os5fN6UEEXdyTWtMShjt2La-9Ei168BdYPXejjtfuIo
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 13/20
- Google Workspace · not on osf.io 10/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on osf.io 9/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on osf.io 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on osf.io 6/20
- jQuery · not on osf.io 6/20
- Cloudflare · not on osf.io 6/20
- Font Awesome · not on osf.io 5/20
- PHP · not on osf.io 5/20
- nginx · not on osf.io 4/20
- Amazon SES · not on osf.io 4/20
- Amazon Web Services · not on osf.io 4/20
- Apple Business · not on osf.io 4/20
- Bootstrap · not on osf.io 4/20
- Google Fonts · not on osf.io 4/20
- cdnjs · not on osf.io 3/20