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OSF alternatives
3 tools to consider instead of OSF, shown against it.
| OSF | Zenodo | Binder | JupyterHub | |
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| Vendor | Center for Open Science | CERN, funded by the European Commission via OpenAIRE | Project Jupyter / Binder Project | Project Jupyter / NumFOCUS |
| Pricing model | Free | Free | Free | Open source + paid options |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Deployment | Cloud | Cloud | Cloud, Self-hosted | Cloud, Self-hosted |
| Open source | Yes (Apache-2.0) | Yes | Yes (BSD-3-Clause) | Yes (BSD-3-Clause) |
| Best for | Research teams needing preregistration and project-lifecycle transparency, not just final data archiving. | Archiving code, data or papers with a citable DOI to meet funder or journal data-sharing requirements. | Sharing a runnable, reproducible version of a code repository without asking readers to install anything. | Institutions needing persistent, authenticated notebook access for many users at once. |
| Pricing | Free for individual researchers, funded by the nonprofit Center for Open Science through grants and institutional storage add-ons. Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site. | Free to use, funded by the European Commission via OpenAIRE and hosted by CERN; no paid tier. Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site. | Free public service on donated infrastructure; the underlying BinderHub software is free and open source to self-host. Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site. | Free and open source to self-host; managed hosting (e.g. 2i2c) is offered by third parties at their own rates. Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site. |
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