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Non-profit registry of persistent researcher identifiers (ORCID iDs) with user-controlled records, Public and Member APIs, OAuth sign-in and an annual CC0 public data file

Collaborative online LaTeX editor with real-time co-editing, templates and reference-manager sync, available as a hosted service and an AGPL self-hosted edition

European cloud and hosting provider offering dedicated bare-metal servers, public and hosted private cloud, VPS, domains and web hosting from data centers in Europe, Canada and elsewhere

Subscription reference manager that lives in the browser and Google Drive, with citation plugins for Google Docs and Word and mobile apps

Fully managed, proprietary vector database service with serverless indexes, namespaces, metadata filtering and integrated embedding and reranking

MIT-licensed interactive charting libraries for Python (plotly.py), JavaScript (plotly.js) and R, plus the Dash framework for analytical web apps

Commercial API platform for designing, testing, documenting and monitoring HTTP and other APIs through a desktop and web client with cloud-synced workspaces

Algorithmic trading platform built on the open-source LEAN engine, with cloud backtesting, research notebooks and brokerage-connected live trading

Literature-discovery app that grows collections of papers through citation and author networks and recommends related work, with a free-forever tier

Gordian's construction cost database of unit prices, assemblies and square-foot models with location factors, sold online and in annual books

Citation-analysis platform whose Smart Citations show whether later papers support, contrast or merely mention a claim, with an AI assistant and reference checking

Web scraping API with anti-bot bypass, JavaScript rendering, cloud browsers, screenshots, AI extraction and a crawler, billed in credits per request

API that returns live search-engine result pages from Google and other engines as structured JSON, with localization, device and search-type parameters

Channel-based team messaging platform from Salesforce with threads, huddles, canvases, workflow automation and an extensive bot and app API

Elsevier-owned preprint and working-paper platform with discipline networks, author pages, download rankings and institutional research paper series, free to post and read

Open-source backend platform built around a dedicated PostgreSQL database with auto-generated APIs, authentication, file storage, realtime subscriptions and edge functions

Salesforce's visual analytics platform: Tableau Desktop authoring (now with a free edition), Tableau Cloud and Server for sharing, and Tableau Next for CRM analytics

Web search, extraction, crawling and research API designed for LLM agents, returning concise source content with SDKs, framework integrations and a hosted MCP server

Markup-based typesetting system with an Apache-2.0 compiler written in Rust and a collaborative web app, positioned as a faster, simpler alternative to LaTeX

Front-end cloud from the makers of Next.js that deploys web applications from git with preview environments, serverless and edge functions and a global CDN

ML experiment tracking, sweeps, artifacts and model registry plus Weave for LLM tracing and evaluation, now sold by CoreWeave within its Forge platform with a free academic tier

Institution-subscribed research data platform from Wharton hosting CRSP, Compustat, TAQ, OptionMetrics and dozens of other vendors' databases with web queries, SQL, SAS, Python and R access

Wolfram Research's proprietary technical computing system built on the Wolfram Language, with notebooks, symbolic and numeric computation, visualization, machine learning and curated data

Video meetings and webinar platform, now packaged as Zoom Workplace with team chat, phone, whiteboard, AI Companion and developer APIs and SDKs