Vendor lock-in

Vendor lock-in - dependency of customers on a vendor for products. Article “Vendor lock-in” in English Wikipedia has 53 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 41 references and 15 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Vendor lock-in” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Vendor lock-in”, its content was written by 294 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 672 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 318 times in English Wikipedia and cited 663 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #7373 in June 2004
• Global: #12257 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #81557 in April 2013
• Global: #98308 in July 2012

There are 20 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Vendor lock-in		53.0125
2	German (de) Lock-in-Effekt		52.0497
3	Hungarian (hu) Terjesztőtől való függés		40.7512
4	Greek (el) Κλείδωμα σε προμηθευτή		37.5549
5	Ukrainian (uk) Прив'язка до постачальника		37.4826
6	Spanish (es) Dependencia del proveedor		31.6208
7	Russian (ru) Привязка к поставщику		30.3379
8	French (fr) Enfermement propriétaire		22.1102
9	Czech (cs) Proprietární uzamčení		21.3692
10	Dutch (nl) Vendor lock-in		18.6476

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Vendor lock-in" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Vendor lock-in		1 323 165
2	German (de) Lock-in-Effekt		551 909
3	Japanese (ja) ベンダーロックイン		239 313
4	Russian (ru) Привязка к поставщику		139 507
5	Dutch (nl) Vendor lock-in		79 335
6	French (fr) Enfermement propriétaire		57 585
7	Italian (it) Vendor lock-in		38 315
8	Czech (cs) Proprietární uzamčení		32 432
9	Portuguese (pt) Aprisionamento tecnológico		27 452
10	Polish (pl) Uzależnienie od dostawcy		11 311

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Vendor lock-in" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Vendor lock-in		3 943
2	German (de) Lock-in-Effekt		1 433
3	Japanese (ja) ベンダーロックイン		598
4	Italian (it) Vendor lock-in		478
5	Russian (ru) Привязка к поставщику		300
6	Dutch (nl) Vendor lock-in		176
7	French (fr) Enfermement propriétaire		125
8	Czech (cs) Proprietární uzamčení		114
9	Portuguese (pt) Aprisionamento tecnológico		109
10	Spanish (es) Dependencia del proveedor		77

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Vendor lock-in" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Vendor lock-in		294
2	German (de) Lock-in-Effekt		111
3	French (fr) Enfermement propriétaire		62
4	Russian (ru) Привязка к поставщику		39
5	Dutch (nl) Vendor lock-in		23
6	Japanese (ja) ベンダーロックイン		21
7	Italian (it) Vendor lock-in		15
8	Norwegian (no) Synkroniseringseffekter		15
9	Portuguese (pt) Aprisionamento tecnológico		15
10	Czech (cs) Proprietární uzamčení		13

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Vendor lock-in" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Vendor lock-in		5
2	Danish (da) Vendor lock-in		2
3	Russian (ru) Привязка к поставщику		1
4	Czech (cs) Proprietární uzamčení		0
5	German (de) Lock-in-Effekt		0
6	Greek (el) Κλείδωμα σε προμηθευτή		0
7	Spanish (es) Dependencia del proveedor		0
8	Persian (fa) وابستگی به فروشنده		0
9	French (fr) Enfermement propriétaire		0
10	Hindi (hi) विक्रेता तालकन		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Vendor lock-in" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Vendor lock-in		318
2	German (de) Lock-in-Effekt		104
3	Japanese (ja) ベンダーロックイン		63
4	Russian (ru) Привязка к поставщику		37
5	French (fr) Enfermement propriétaire		31
6	Persian (fa) وابستگی به فروشنده		17
7	Spanish (es) Dependencia del proveedor		14
8	Czech (cs) Proprietární uzamčení		13
9	Dutch (nl) Vendor lock-in		13
10	Ukrainian (uk) Прив'язка до постачальника		12

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#	Language	Value
cs	Czech Proprietární uzamčení
da	Danish Vendor lock-in
de	German Lock-in-Effekt
el	Greek Κλείδωμα σε προμηθευτή
en	English Vendor lock-in
es	Spanish Dependencia del proveedor
fa	Persian وابستگی به فروشنده
fr	French Enfermement propriétaire
hi	Hindi विक्रेता तालकन
hu	Hungarian Terjesztőtől való függés
it	Italian Vendor lock-in
ja	Japanese ベンダーロックイン
lt	Lithuanian Gamintojo prirakinimas
nl	Dutch Vendor lock-in
no	Norwegian Synkroniseringseffekter
pl	Polish Uzależnienie od dostawcy
pt	Portuguese Aprisionamento tecnológico
ru	Russian Привязка к поставщику
sl	Slovenian Priklenitev na prodajalca
uk	Ukrainian Прив'язка до постачальника

Best Rank

English: #81557 04.2013

Global: #98308 07.2012

Best Rank

English: #7373 06.2004

Global: #12257 09.2002

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