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24 alternatives to spaCy

Industrial-strength, open source natural language processing

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. spaCy launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   spaCy v2.0▲28

   Industrial-strength Natural Language Processing

   2017 · spacy.io · its alternatives →

2. 2
   SpaCy – Build tomorrow's language technology products with Python▲93

   spaCy is a free open-source library for Natural Language Processing in Python. It features NER, POS tagging, dependency parsing, word vectors and more.

   2015 · spacy.io · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Spacy.io▲86

   Semantic analysis of the Reddit hivemind

   2016 · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Fluky▲105

   A friendly randomiser

   2014 · fluky.io · its alternatives →

5. 5
   BetaPage 2.0▲224

   Community of Hackers and Makers

   2017 · pitchwall.co · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Wit.ai Bot Engine (Beta)▲186

   Helping developers make bots great again

   2016 · medium.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Light▲67

   NLP-based messaging engine that answers any query

   2015 · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Botanalytics▲194

   Conversational analytics for bots

   2016 · botanalytics.co · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Awkward Chatbot▲83

   machine learning is making like huge strides lol

   2015 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Restyaboard▲197

    An open source alternative to Trello

    2015 · restya.com · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Penflip▲119

    A social writing platform

    2013 · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Allen NLP▲72

    An open-source NLP research library, built on PyTorch

    2017 · allenai.org · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Atom▲145

    A hackable text editor for the 21st Century

    2014 · github.blog · its alternatives →

14. 14
    SpaCy v2 alpha. New 15MB neural model, multi-language NER, training API▲8

    💫 Industrial-strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python - Release v2.0.0 alpha: Neural network models, Pickle, better training & lots of API improvements · explosion/spaCy

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Juno▲64

    A powerful environment for the Julia language

    2014 · junolab.org · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Botbuzz▲127

    On-Demand chatbot developers

    2016 · buzz.ai · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Word Perhect▲59

    the artistic online word processor

    2014 · wordperhect.net · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Buch▲71

    A Telegram book reader bot

    2016 · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Prose▲81

    CMS-free content manager w/ Jekyll & markdown support

    2014 · prose.io · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Wick Editor▲88

    The Internet's free and open-source creation suite

    2016 · wickeditor.com · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Lime Text▲76

    Open Source code editor

    2014 · limetext.org · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Fraym▲67

    A new open-source CMS

    2014 · fraymm.wordpress.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Innoz▲88

    Connecting the unconnected

    2014 · offlineinternet.org · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Monocle▲71

    HN-like Community for Tech and Startups (now open source)

    2013 · monocle.io · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →