Alternatives and competitors
Sites like OSF
The 20 closest research data repository alternatives to OSF, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 5 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to OSF? The closest matches are medRxiv, Zenodo and arXiv. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 13 ms
01 · Entity
About OSF
Summary by Claude
A free, open-source web platform where researchers manage research projects, share data and materials, preregister studies, and post preprints. It is run by the nonprofit Center for Open Science.
- Who it’s for
- Academic researchers and scientists
- Business model
- Nonprofit, grant and foundation funded
02 · Embedding space
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). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
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
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 cos 0.935 - 02
Zenodo
research data repository
Very close cos 0.933 - 03
arXiv.org e-Print archive
online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers
Very close cos 0.925 - 04
bioRxiv.org - the preprint server for Biology
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by openRxiv, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing scientific communication
Very close cos 0.918 - 05
Zotero | Your personal research assistant
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
Very close cos 0.914 - 06
database of biomedical research
Very close cos 0.913 - 07
Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
Very close cos 0.913 - 08
NLnet Labs - Home
Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.
Very close cos 0.907 - 09
Request temporarily denied. | Archive of Our Own
nonprofit online fanfiction repository operated by the Organization for Transformative Works
Very close cos 0.907 - 10
Wikimedia Error
global social movement for free educational knowledge
Very close cos 0.906 - 11
Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
Very close cos 0.905 - 12
OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.
Very close cos 0.900 - 13
Frontiers | Publisher of peer-reviewed articles in open access journals
Open access publisher of peer-reviewed scientific articles across the entire spectrum of academia. Research network for academics to stay up-to-date with the latest scientific publications, events, blogs and news.
Very close cos 0.900 - 14
De Gruyter Brill
De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence
Very close cos 0.900 - 15
Welcome to Open Library | Open Library
Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.
Very close cos 0.899 - 16
Welcome to The Apache Software Foundation | Apache Software Foundation
American nonprofit open-source software community
Very close cos 0.896 - 17
Pew Research Center | Nonpartisan, nonadvocacy, public opinion polling and data-driven social science research
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Very close cos 0.897 - 18
Home Page
API endpoint
Very close cos 0.895 - 19
Doxygen homepage
Source code documentation and analysis tool
Very close cos 0.895 - 20
NSF - U.S. National Science Foundation
NSF is an independent federal agency that supports science and engineering in all 50 states and U.S. territories.
Very close cos 0.895
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to osf.io’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones OSF uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What OSF is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
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
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what OSF adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 15/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on osf.io 9/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on osf.io 8/20
- Cloudflare · not on osf.io 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on osf.io 6/20
- Google Workspace · not on osf.io 6/20
- Mailchimp 6/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on osf.io 5/20
- Font Awesome · not on osf.io 4/20
- Matomo · not on osf.io 4/20
- nginx · not on osf.io 4/20
- Apple Business · not on osf.io 4/20
- Fastly · not on osf.io 4/20
- Atlassian · not on osf.io 4/20
- OpenAI · not on osf.io 4/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on osf.io 4/20