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.
20 of the 60 sites closest to OSF match.
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.
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DataCite – Connecting Research, Advancing Knowledge - DataCite
international not-for-profit organization which aims to improve data citation
Very close - 02
Liberapay
We help you fund the creators and projects you appreciate.
Very close - 03
ORCID
non-profit organization that issues ORCID Identifiers
Very close - 04
Making sure you're not a bot!
French research institution in computer science
Very close - 05
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 - 06
NLnet Labs - Home
Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.
Very close - 07
Wikimedia
The Wikimedia movement is a global community of people, projects, and activities working together to create and share knowledge freely.
Very close - 08
Hyphanet
free software
Very close - 09
The Linux Kernel Archives
Unix-like operating system kernel, basis for all Linux operating systems
Very close - 10
The NetBSD Project
Very close - 11
The FreeBSD Project
free Unix-like operating system
Very close - 12
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive
Very close - 13
Home Page
API endpoint
Very close - 14
Open Source Cloud Computing Infrastructure - OpenStack
Deployed by thousands. Proven production at scale. OpenStack is a set of software components that provide common services for cloud infrastructure.
Very close - 15
Home | Grants.gov
USA federal website
Very close - 16
Home
Welcome to Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
Close - 17
Checking if you are not a bot
Biodiversity Citizen Science & Monitoring
Close - 18
Open Source Initiative – The steward of the Open Source Definition, setting the foundation for the Open Source Software ecosystem.
The steward of the Open Source Definition, setting the foundation for the Open Source Software ecosystem.
Close - 19
Privacy Guides
Established in 2021, Privacy Guides is the largest impartial, non-profit media outlet focused on finding privacy tools and learning about protecting your digital life.
Close - 20
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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 = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,215
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 43 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