Best Open Science Framework Alternatives & Competitors in 2025

Securely store and manage your research outputs in the cloud, or make them openly available and citable.

Code Ocean is a research collaboration platform. Create, collaborate on, share, execute, and publish computational code and data from anywhere, with anyone.

Seamless project management and collaboration for your team.

Visit website $12.0 / Monthly (Per user)

A license from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Legally read research papers behind paywalls.

Created for the GNU project, the GNU General Public License version 2 is the most popular free software license.

netquery is the system introspection tool.

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft

Open Source

Find free research & help make more of it publicly available

Originally founded as a project to simplify sharing code, GitHub has grown into an application used by over a million people to store over two million code repositories, making GitHub the largest code host in the world.

Open Source

A simple and elegant project management system.

paid Free Trial $99.0 / Monthly (flat price)

Xcode is Apple’s powerful integrated development environment for creating great apps for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Xcode 4 includes the Xcode IDE, instruments, iOS Simulator, and the latest Mac OS X and iOS SDKs.

Find high-quality AI research easily

GNU Affero General Public License. Strong license for applications designed to guarentee user freedoms to access, modify, and redistribute server-side code.