Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Zenodo
The 20 closest research data repository alternatives to Zenodo, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 6 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Zenodo? The closest matches are OSF, Our World in Data and Europe PubMed Central. 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
- 11 ms
01 · Entity
About Zenodo
Zenodo zenodo.org
Zenodo
Wikidata: research data repository
Summary by Claude
General-purpose open-access repository operated by CERN where researchers deposit and share papers, datasets, software and other research outputs, each assigned a citable DOI, with curated community collections.
- Who it’s for
- Researchers, academics and research projects
- Business model
- Publicly funded (CERN, EU), free service
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Zenodo’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 Zenodo
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Zenodo, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
OSF
tools that make open science practice easier
Very close cos 0.933 - 02
Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
- Cloudflare DNS
- Google Search Console
- Cloudflare
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
- Google Workspace
Very close cos 0.914 - 03
database of biomedical research
Very close cos 0.911 - 04
arXiv.org e-Print archive
online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers
Very close cos 0.911 - 05
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 0.908 - 06
Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
Very close cos 0.905 - 07
The Linux Kernel Archives
Unix-like operating system kernel, basis for all Linux operating systems
Very close cos 0.903 - 08
Home | CERN
Very close cos 0.900 - 09
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 0.901 - 10
De Gruyter Brill
De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence
Very close cos 0.901 - 11
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 0.900 - 12
Smithsonian request verification
group of museums and research centers administered by the United States government
Very close cos 0.898 - 13
Google Open Source
Google <3 Open Source
Very close cos 0.896 - 14
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 cos 0.897 - 15
Client Challenge
global publishing company
Very close cos 0.898 - 16
Brazil
digital library
Very close cos 0.896 - 17
Request temporarily denied. | Archive of Our Own
nonprofit online fanfiction repository operated by the Organization for Transformative Works
Very close cos 0.896 - 18
ScienceDirect
journal
Very close cos 0.896 - 19
Wikidata
free multilingual online knowledge graph
Very close cos 0.895 - 20
bioRxiv.org - the preprint server for Biology
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by openRxiv, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing scientific communication
Close cos 0.893
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to zenodo.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Zenodo uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Zenodo is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Analytics
- Matomo page source: _paq.push(
- CDN
- cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/mathjax/3.2.2/es5/tex-mml-chtml.js?config=TeX-AMS-…
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX cern-ch.mail.protection.outlook.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS albert.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: 5fPGCLllnWrvFxH9QWI0l1TadV7byeEvfPcyK2VkS_s
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Zenodo adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 15/20
- Microsoft 365 10/20
- Cloudflare · not on zenodo.org 7/20
- OpenAI · not on zenodo.org 7/20
- Google Workspace · not on zenodo.org 6/20
- Mailchimp · not on zenodo.org 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on zenodo.org 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS 4/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on zenodo.org 4/20
- Apple Business · not on zenodo.org 4/20
- Atlassian · not on zenodo.org 4/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on zenodo.org 3/20
- Fastly · not on zenodo.org 3/20
- Salesforce · not on zenodo.org 3/20
- Zendesk · not on zenodo.org 3/20
- GlobalSign · not on zenodo.org 3/20