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What both publish
| Fact | Dolos | WINNOWR |
|---|---|---|
| Audience | Dolos focuses on teachers checking programming tests and exams, as well as exercises where collaboration is allowed within small groups. | Longsight presents Winnowr as academic-integrity software for institutions, with a focus on plagiarism detection and reviewable evidence. |
| Integrations | Dolos provides a JSON API for automated integration with exercise platforms such as Dodona. | The production-style runtime uses SQLite, Cloudflare Queues, and Cloudflare R2. |
| Purpose | Dolos detects plagiarism by finding similarities between source code submissions. | WINNOWR is a CPU-first web-source detection engine for student writing and other long-form text. |
| Reports | Reports include similarity, total overlap, and the longest matching fragment for file pairs. | Reports include index overlap, source URLs, and highlighted suspicious spans. |
| Self-hosting | The open-source web application can be hosted by users on their own infrastructure. | The project describes itself as understandable and self-hostable, with an on-disk index and local runtime configuration. |
Dolos plans
- Dolos web appFree
- Free web applicationFree
WINNOWR plans
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Pick Dolos if…
Dolos is suited to teachers checking source-code submissions, including tests, exams, and exercises where small-group collaboration is allowed. It can also suit users who want local analysis or to host the tool themselves.
Pick WINNOWR if…
WINNOWR suits institutions seeking academic-integrity software for plagiarism detection and reviewable evidence. Its self-hosted option and corpus-building workflow may fit institutions that want to run the system themselves.