OpenAlex
No phone app
6.4No. 5 of 33
in Academic Research Databases
in Academic Research Databases
- Recognised40% of the score20
- Phone app26% of the score0
- Documented20% of the score97
- Free plan14% of the score100
- Free plan
- Yes
- Paid plans from
- $416.67/mo
- Runs on
- api, Browser extension, self-hosted, Web
Summary
OpenAlex is ranked #5 of 33 in academic research databases on Samsung Mobile US Press. It runs on API, Browser extension, Self-hosted, Web. There is a free plan. Paid plans start at $416.67/mo.
OpenAlex plans and pricing
All plansFree Free $1 per day API key · no payment method · budget resets midnight UTC help.openalex.org · 30 Sept 2026
Pay as you go $1 once $1 increments Prepaid usage · drawn after free daily budget · expires 3 months after most recent purchase help.openalex.org · 30 Sept 2026
Member $5,000/yr $5,000/year $20/day API budget · admin dashboard · community support · academic/government affiliation editor and Unsub access help.openalex.org · 30 Sept 2026
Member+ $10,000/yr $10,000/year $100/day API budget · daily snapshot and sync filters · critical API bug support help.openalex.org · 30 Sept 2026
Partner $20,000/yr starting at $20,000/year $200+/day API budget · full ticket support · academic/government: 3 power-user accounts and 5 consulting hours/year help.openalex.org · 30 Sept 2026
Compared on academic research databases
- Free plan
- Yesopenalex.org
- Full-text access
- Yesopenalex.org
- Advanced search
- Yesopenalex.org
- Subject coverage
- multidisciplinaryopenalex.org
- Content types
- journal articles, conference papers, books, book chapters, datasets, dissertations, preprintsopenalex.org
- Theses and dissertations
- Yesopenalex.org
- Conference proceedings
- Yesopenalex.org
- Institutional access
- Yesopenalex.org
Facts
- Product
- OpenAlex is a free and open catalog of the world's scholarly research system.explore.openalex.org · 30 Sept 2026
- API
- The REST API is a connected graph of works, authors, sources, institutions, topics, and more, with list, filter, search, sort, group, page, field selection, and single-entity queries.help.openalex.org · 30 Sept 2026
- Website
- The website supports search, filtering, and exporting result lists without coding.help.openalex.org · 30 Sept 2026
- Snapshot
- The complete database snapshot is free to download from Amazon S3 without an AWS account.help.openalex.org · 30 Sept 2026
- Data license
- OpenAlex data is released under the CC0 public-domain license.help.openalex.org · 30 Sept 2026
- CLI
- The official CLI handles parallel downloads, checkpointing, rate limiting, retries, and resume for bulk terminal workflows.help.openalex.org · 30 Sept 2026
- Full text
- The full-text service provides PDFs and machine-readable TEI XML, with per-file downloads priced at $0.01 each.help.openalex.org · 30 Sept 2026
- Integrations
- Website exports support CSV, RIS for EndNote or Zotero, and TXT, while VOSviewer connects directly through the API.help.openalex.org · 30 Sept 2026
- Unpaywall
- Unpaywall is OpenAlex's legacy-format open-access API surface, including a browser extension and integrations with SFX, EBSCO Discovery Service, and 360 Link.help.openalex.org · 30 Sept 2026
- Security guidance
- OpenAlex passes externally sourced text fields through without sanitizing them and advises users to escape output and follow OWASP XSS-prevention practices.help.openalex.org · 30 Sept 2026
- Support
- Member includes community support, Member+ includes ticket-based help for critical API bugs, and Partner includes full ticket-based support for API and data issues.help.openalex.org · 30 Sept 2026
- Organization
- OpenAlex is operated by a US 501(c)(3) nonprofit and all code is open source.help.openalex.org · 30 Sept 2026
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Sources
- explore.openalex.org/about· checked 30 Sept 2026
- help.openalex.org/api/· checked 30 Sept 2026
- help.openalex.org/access/overview/· checked 30 Sept 2026
- help.openalex.org/access/snapshot/· checked 30 Sept 2026
- help.openalex.org/access/pricing/· checked 30 Sept 2026
- help.openalex.org/access/cli/· checked 30 Sept 2026
- help.openalex.org/how-to/integrations/· checked 30 Sept 2026
- help.openalex.org/access/unpaywall/· checked 30 Sept 2026
- help.openalex.org/access/member-plus/· checked 30 Sept 2026
- help.openalex.org/access/member/· checked 30 Sept 2026
- help.openalex.org/access/partner/· checked 30 Sept 2026