zotero.org
Zotero
Who runs Zotero, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest reference management software alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Paperpile
Measured from Zotero’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Zotero01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Zotero
Zotero zotero.org
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
Wikidata: reference management software
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Zotero 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 16 alternatives below has fewer; 9 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Zotero’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Zotero
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Zotero, thumbs down if it isn’t.
2 of the 60 sites closest to Zotero match.
- 01
The AI workspace that works for you. | Notion
Build Custom Agents, search across all your apps, and automate busywork. The AI workspace where teams get more done, faster.
Very close - 02
ClickUp™ | Maximize productivity • Software, AI, and humans converge
Our mission is to make the world more productive. To do this, we built the everything app for work - Tasks, Docs, Goals, and Chat.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Zotero’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Zotero 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 Zotero 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 · 5 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,214
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 41 ms
Built with
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: E1FYvJ8X_i7cp_S-LQkrSfirTYAZ1ueYSj20XBR2VA57E2o6XBLlUQ==
- Web servers
- Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms97307893
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 mx include:amazonses.com -all
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1395.awsdns-46.org
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on zotero.org 13/20
- Google Workspace · not on zotero.org 6/20
- Amazon SES 6/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on zotero.org 5/20
- Microsoft 365 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 5/20
- Cloudflare · not on zotero.org 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on zotero.org 5/20
- jQuery · not on zotero.org 5/20
- PHP · not on zotero.org 5/20
- nginx · not on zotero.org 5/20
- WordPress · not on zotero.org 4/20
- Google Analytics · not on zotero.org 3/20
- Mailchimp Transactional · not on zotero.org 3/20
- SendGrid · not on zotero.org 3/20
- Bootstrap · not on zotero.org 3/20