Access Overview

Every way in and out of OpenAlex — how to ask questions, how to get the data, what it costs, and how to fix what’s wrong.

This tab covers access to OpenAlex, in both directions. Most of it is about read access: Querying is how you ask a question, Get the data covers the channels an answer can arrive through — from a website search to the full database — and Pricing explains what that access costs (for most people, nothing). The last section, Fixing errors, is write access: how to change the data when it's wrong.

QueryingThe ways to ask OpenAlex a question — all transpile to the same query object.Get the dataEvery way to get the data — the website, a query, the CLI, an agent, the whole database, or Unpaywall.PricingHow paying for OpenAlex works — the free tier, pay-as-you-go, annual plans and their benefits, and the PDF sync add-on.Fixing errorsHow to report errors, fix them yourself, and get help.