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# Gephi

**Open-source** project for **visual network analysis**

## Gephi

Desktop application

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## Gephi Lite

Online tool

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## Powerful Network Analysis

Discover **structural patterns** in your connected data. From social networks to biological systems, Gephi handles complex networks of **ten to ten million nodes** with advanced algorithms and metrics.

### Algorithms

Built-in algorithms for **community detection**, **centrality measures**, and **clustering analysis**.

### Data Manipulation

**Draw a network** like a picture, or use our **spreadsheet interface** to manipulate data columns, search and transform the data. Import multiple formats and filter networks interactively.

## Insightful Visualization

Explore your data with rich **network visualizations** based on advanced layout algorithms. **Render network maps** with customizable styling options. Export in multiple formats for presentations and publications.

### Layout Algorithms

Choose from various options including Force Atlas 2, Früchterman-Reingold, OpenOrd...

### Appearance Customization

Customize nodes and edges based on data attributes. Advanced styling controls for publication-ready visualizations.

### Image Exports

Export high-resolution PNG, PDF, and SVG formats. Generate vector graphics and web-ready visualizations.

## Trusted by Researchers Worldwide

Gephi has been featured in tens of thousands of academic publications across disciplines from sociology to biology. It has become a leading tool for network analysis in research, trusted by universities and research institutions globally for its reliability and comprehensive features.

### The **Gephi** Paper

Bastian M., Heymann S., Jacomy M. (2009). *Gephi: an open source software for exploring and manipulating networks.* International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media. From AAAI \[PDF\].

*Gephi: An Open Source Software* has been cited by more than 10,000 peer-reviewed publications.

### The **Gephi Lite** Paper

Girard P., Jacomy A., Simard B., Jacomy M. (2025). *Gephi Lite: a lighter web-based version of Gephi.* Digital Humanities 2025. Lisbon.

## Open Source & Free

Built by the **community**, for the community.
Gephi is free as in “free beer,” you don't have to pay (but you can support us). And it is free as in “free speech,” having its source code fully available under GPL license.

### Contribute

Join our GitHub community. Contribute code, report bugs, or create plugins to help improve Gephi.

### Donate

We are **non-profit**. Help us innovate by donating to fund development and keep Gephi free for everyone.

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## Latest posts on Gephi's blog

#### Introducing Gephi Lite v1.0 🎉

The summer has been quite busy, and we are very thrilled to announce the release of Gephi Lite v1.0! This marks for us the first version of Gephi Lite we are really proud about. You can play with it at lite.gephi.org 🚀 Previously, on Gephi Lite… Since Gephi’s creation in 2008, multiple groups of people within \[…\]

by OuestWare on October 8, 2025

#### What’s new for Gephi? Echoes from Gephi Week 2025

Nantes 2025 The Gephi Week aspires to be a yearly event where the team and some community members gather to work on the project. The first iteration was in 2021 in Copenhagen (see debrief), and it has happened every year since except in 2023. This year’s edition was hosted by OuestWare in Nantes, France (OuestWare \[…\]

by Martin Grandjean on October 1, 2025

#### Gephi week 2024 – peek from the inside!

This new edition of the Gephi week takes place in Copenhagen, organized by Mathieu Jacomy who lives there and works as a professor at Aalborg University. It was a closed meeting, contrary to the Gephi week 2 years ago in Paris, because of the complexity to organize a public event. This one was smaller and \[…\]

by Clement on June 13, 2024

#### 14 ways you can contribute to Gephi

Gephi is a free and open source software serving thousands of users, developed by volunteers. How can we give back?

by Clement on September 27, 2023

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