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Screenshot of Openalex' statement. The most important part: We’re pausing the alpha, effective now; you’ll no longer be able to use or query the Analytics. We’re doing this for two reasons: We’ve learned how expensive it is to answer these complex ad-hoc queries. Our current numbers suggest we’d need to charge you and other users about $50k/yr, and our research indicates there’s no market at this price point (that said, if we’re wrong and you’ve got $50k/yr for this, let us know…our minds can be changed 😁). I think we need to figure out a way to do Analytics more cheaply to make it viable—either use a cheaper technology or support less flexibility. We’ve got some ideas on both counts, but we need time to look into it. Which brings us to… We need to focus on the new OpenAlex rewrite launch over the next few months. This is the biggest project we’ve ever done and we need to really zone in or it’s not going to work. So we’re saying “no” to everything we possibly can in Q4, so that we can say a great big “yes” to making OpenAlex faster, more accurate, and more comprehensive (we’re passing 400M works!). We’ll return to Analytics in 2026 with a new approach, probably one integrated more tightly with the existing UI and definitely one taking advantage of our turbocharged new backend architecture.
Screenshot of Openalex' statement. The most important part: We’re pausing the alpha, effective now; you’ll no longer be able to use or query the Analytics. We’re doing this for two reasons: We’ve learned how expensive it is to answer these complex ad-hoc queries. Our current numbers suggest we’d need to charge you and other users about $50k/yr, and our research indicates there’s no market at this price point (that said, if we’re wrong and you’ve got $50k/yr for this, let us know…our minds can be changed 😁). I think we need to figure out a way to do Analytics more cheaply to make it viable—either use a cheaper technology or support less flexibility. We’ve got some ideas on both counts, but we need time to look into it. Which brings us to… We need to focus on the new OpenAlex rewrite launch over the next few months. This is the biggest project we’ve ever done and we need to really zone in or it’s not going to work. So we’re saying “no” to everything we possibly can in Q4, so that we can say a great big “yes” to making OpenAlex faster, more accurate, and more comprehensive (we’re passing 400M works!). We’ll return to Analytics in 2026 with a new approach, probably one integrated more tightly with the existing UI and definitely one taking advantage of our turbocharged new backend architecture.
Screenshot of Openalex' statement. The most important part: We’re pausing the alpha, effective now; you’ll no longer be able to use or query the Analytics. We’re doing this for two reasons: We’ve learned how expensive it is to answer these complex ad-hoc queries. Our current numbers suggest we’d need to charge you and other users about $50k/yr, and our research indicates there’s no market at this price point (that said, if we’re wrong and you’ve got $50k/yr for this, let us know…our minds can be changed 😁). I think we need to figure out a way to do Analytics more cheaply to make it viable—either use a cheaper technology or support less flexibility. We’ve got some ideas on both counts, but we need time to look into it. Which brings us to… We need to focus on the new OpenAlex rewrite launch over the next few months. This is the biggest project we’ve ever done and we need to really zone in or it’s not going to work. So we’re saying “no” to everything we possibly can in Q4, so that we can say a great big “yes” to making OpenAlex faster, more accurate, and more comprehensive (we’re passing 400M works!). We’ll return to Analytics in 2026 with a new approach, probably one integrated more tightly with the existing UI and definitely one taking advantage of our turbocharged new backend architecture.
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