There is no cost for basic access
to the corpora from
English-Corpora.org. But you might want to
have a premium account, which you can purchase by clicking on one of the links
below. (See note on 2026 price increase and AI queries).
Some of the advantages of a premium
license are the following:
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Basic access |
With premium license |
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AI queries |
No AI queries |
100
free AI queries
each month |
| Messages asking if you want a
license |
These appear every 10-15 searches |
No more messages; uninterrupted searching |
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| Searches
(click for explanation) |
Basic access (per day) |
With premium license |
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# searches |
20 |
200 |
| The number of
searches for
strings (e.g. *ism, fast NOUN, VERB to VERB) or collocates that
you can do each day. |
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# KWIC lines |
2000 |
20,000 |
| The number of
Keyword in Context
(KWIC) / concordance lines (the word in context) that you can
view each day. |
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Word pages (COCA / iWeb) |
20 |
200 |
| The number of "word
pages" that you can view each day ("main" word page, topics,
collocates, clusters, KWIC, etc). |
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Browsing (COCA / iWeb) |
150 |
1,000 |
| The number of distinct words
that you case see each day as you're
browsing through the word list. |
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Analyze texts (COCA) |
10 searches / 250 words each |
100 searches / 5,000 words each |
| The number of times that you
can submit a text to be
analyzed (by word and phrase) each day, and the maximum
length of each text |
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| Saved lists |
# lists |
(Explanation) |
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The following features are primarily reserved for those who have a premium account
(for individuals), or through an academic license (from your university).
But even those without a license can create a few lists -- kind of like a "taste test", to see how they work.
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Virtual corpora |
5 (per corpus) |
1,000 |
| Maximum number of Virtual Corpora
that you have created for a given corpus (e.g. COCA or NOW) |
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Saved KWIC lines |
5 lists / 100 lines (per corpus) |
1,000 lists: 20,000 lines |
| # of concordance lines (words in context) that you have saved. |
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Saved words / phrases |
5 |
1,000 |
| Number of words and phrases that you have saved. |
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Customized word lists |
5 |
1,000 |
| Number of customized word lists that you have created. |
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Search history |
20 searches |
10,000 searches |
| Number of entries shown from your search history |
In addition, with a premium
license:
You
help keep the corpora financially viable. The corpora are now accessed by
about 75,000 registered users of the corpora each month, and it
takes a lot of money and effort to make them available. The income from premium
accounts helps maintain the corpora.
You help those less fortunate. Without
the income from premium accounts, we'd probably need
to move to a paid license for everyone, like some
other corpus sites.
Unfortunately, this would probably exclude some lower-income students or teachers at universities in
developing countries. The income from your purchase of a premium account helps
provide access for those who cannot afford one.
Note that your university can also
purchase an academic license, which allows
multiple users from your university to have all of the advantages shown above.
Problems with a premium license ("not
authenticated" message)?
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