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Publishing fees in maths & computing
Mathematics and computer science — home to some of the strongest diamond journals. Fees, free (diamond) routes and head-to-head comparisons.

107journals tracked
2comparisons
7free routes
$2,090median APC (USD titles)
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- Journal of Machine Learning Research — JMLR / MIT, no fee
- Transactions on Machine Learning Research — TMLR / JMLR, no fee
- Logical Methods in Computer Science — Episciences (LMCS), no fee
- Documenta Mathematica — EMS / DMV, no fee
- Discrete Analysis — Diamond Open Access / arXiv overlay, no fee
- Electronic Journal of Combinatorics — EJC, no fee
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Discrete Analysis vs Electronic Journal of Combinatoricsfree / freeJournal of Machine Learning Research vs Transactions on Machine Learning Researchfree / free
Journals we track (107)
| Journal | Publisher | APC (list) | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advances in Continuous and Discrete Models | Springer Nature — Springer | $1,990 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Advances in Statistical Climatology, Meteorology and Oceanography | Copernicus Publications | free | source 2026-08-23 |
| AI | MDPI | CHF 1,800 | source 2026-08-23 |
| AI Perspectives & Advances | Springer Nature — Springer | $1,890 | source 2026-08-23 |
| AI Sensors | MDPI | CHF 1,000 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Algorithms | MDPI | CHF 1,800 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Algorithms for Molecular Biology | Springer Nature — BioMed Central | $2,590 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Analytics | MDPI | CHF 1,200 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Applied Network Science | Springer Nature — Springer | $1,790 | source 2026-08-23 |
| AppliedMath | MDPI | CHF 1,200 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Artificial Intelligence Review | Springer Nature — Springer | $3,390 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Axioms | MDPI | CHF 2,400 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Big Data and Cognitive Computing | MDPI | CHF 1,800 | source 2026-08-23 |
| BioMedInformatics | MDPI | CHF 1,200 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Blockchains | MDPI | CHF 1,000 | source 2026-08-23 |
| BMC Artificial Intelligence | Springer Nature — BioMed Central | $2,090 | source 2026-08-23 |
| BMC Bioinformatics | Springer Nature — BioMed Central | $3,090 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Boundary Value Problems | Springer Nature — Springer | $1,990 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Brain Informatics | Springer Nature — Springer | $1,140 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Cognitive Computation | Springer Nature — Springer | $3,090 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Communications AI & Computing | Springer Nature — Nature Portfolio | $2,290 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Complex & Intelligent Systems | Springer Nature — Springer | $2,590 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Complexities | MDPI | CHF 1,000 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Computation | MDPI | CHF 1,800 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Computers | MDPI | CHF 1,800 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Computing and Software for Big Science | Springer Nature — Springer | $3,790 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Cryptography | MDPI | CHF 1,800 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Cybersecurity | Springer Nature — Springer | $1,485 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Data | MDPI | CHF 1,600 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Digital | MDPI | CHF 1,200 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Discover Analytics | Springer Nature — Discover | $2,190 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Discover Artificial Intelligence | Springer Nature — Discover | $1,690 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Discover Computing | Springer Nature — Discover | $2,190 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Discover Data | Springer Nature — Discover | $2,190 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Discover Internet of Things | Springer Nature — Discover | $1,690 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Discrete Analysis | Diamond Open Access / arXiv overlay | free | not yet re-verified |
| Documenta Mathematica | EMS / DMV | free | not yet re-verified |
| Dynamics | MDPI | CHF 1,200 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Electronic Journal of Combinatorics | EJC | free | not yet re-verified |
| Energy Informatics | Springer Nature — Springer | $1,540 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Entropy | MDPI | CHF 2,600 | source 2026-08-23 |
| EPJ Data Science | Springer Nature — Springer | $1,990 | source 2026-08-23 |
| EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing | Springer Nature — Springer | $1,990 | source 2026-08-23 |
| EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing | Springer Nature — Springer | $2,090 | source 2026-08-23 |
| EURASIP Journal on Information Security | Springer Nature — Springer | $1,590 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Fixed Point Theory and Algorithms for Sciences and Engineering | Springer Nature — Springer | $1,890 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Forecasting | MDPI | CHF 1,800 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Foundations | MDPI | CHF 1,000 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Fractal and Fractional | MDPI | CHF 2,700 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Future Internet | MDPI | CHF 1,800 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Geometry | MDPI | CHF 1,000 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Informatics | MDPI | CHF 1,800 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Information | MDPI | CHF 1,800 | source 2026-08-23 |
| International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems | Springer Nature — Springer | $2,690 | source 2026-08-23 |
| International Journal of Information Security | Springer Nature — Springer | $3,690 | source 2026-08-23 |
| International Journal of Networked and Distributed Computing | Springer Nature — Springer | $1,440 | source 2026-08-23 |
| International Journal of Topology | MDPI | CHF 1,000 | source 2026-08-23 |
| IoT | MDPI | CHF 1,400 | source 2026-08-23 |
| JMIR AI | JMIR Publications | $1,985 | source 2026-09-16 |
| JMIR Data | JMIR Publications | $1,500 | source 2026-09-16 |
| JMIR XR and Spatial Computing | JMIR Publications | $1,500 | source 2026-09-16 |
| Journal of Big Data | Springer Nature — Springer | $2,290 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Journal of Biomedical Semantics | Springer Nature — BioMed Central | $1,690 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Journal of Cloud Computing | Springer Nature — Springer | $1,890 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy | MDPI | CHF 1,200 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Journal of Imaging | MDPI | CHF 1,800 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Journal of Inequalities and Applications | Springer Nature — Springer | $2,290 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Journal of Information Display | Springer Nature — Springer | $2,190 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems | Springer Nature — Springer | $3,190 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Journal of King Saud University Computer and Information Sciences | Springer Nature — Springer | $2,090 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Journal of Machine Learning Research | JMLR / MIT | free | not yet re-verified |
| Journal of Mathematics in Industry | Springer Nature — Springer | $1,690 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks | MDPI | CHF 2,000 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Journal of Statistical Theory and Applications | Springer Nature — Springer | $1,590 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Journal of Superintelligence | MDPI | CHF 1,000 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Logical Methods in Computer Science | Episciences (LMCS) | free | not yet re-verified |
| Logics | MDPI | CHF 1,000 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction | MDPI | CHF 1,800 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Mathematical and Computational Applications | MDPI | CHF 1,600 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Mathematics | MDPI | CHF 2,600 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Modelling | MDPI | CHF 1,200 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Multimedia | MDPI | CHF 1,000 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Multimodal Technologies and Interaction | MDPI | CHF 1,800 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Network | MDPI | CHF 1,200 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Neural Processing Letters | Springer Nature — Springer | $3,190 | source 2026-08-23 |
| npj Artificial Intelligence | Springer Nature — Nature Portfolio | $2,690 | source 2026-08-23 |
| npj Complexity | Springer Nature — Nature Portfolio | $2,790 | source 2026-08-23 |
| npj Robotics | Springer Nature — Nature Portfolio | $2,090 | source 2026-08-23 |
| npj Unconventional Computing | Springer Nature — Nature Portfolio | $2,590 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications | Springer Nature — Springer | $4,090 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Platforms | MDPI | CHF 1,000 | source 2026-08-23 |
| PLOS Complex Systems | PLOS | $3,165 | source 2026-09-16 |
| Publications mathématiques de l'IHÉS | Springer Nature — Springer | $3,490 | source 2026-08-23 |
| RAIRO - Operations Research | EDP Sciences | no APC listed | source 2026-09-16 |
| RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications | EDP Sciences | no APC listed | source 2026-09-16 |
| Risks | MDPI | CHF 1,800 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Robotics | MDPI | CHF 1,800 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Sankhya B | Springer Nature — Springer | $0 subscription / $3,190 OA | source 2026-09-16 |
| Science and AI | Springer Nature — Springer | $1,990 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Signals | MDPI | CHF 1,200 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Software | MDPI | CHF 1,000 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Stats | MDPI | CHF 1,600 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Symmetry | MDPI | CHF 2,400 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Systems | MDPI | CHF 2,400 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Transactions on Machine Learning Research | TMLR / JMLR | free | not yet re-verified |
| Virtual Reality | Springer Nature — Springer | $3,090 | source 2026-08-23 |
| Virtual Worlds | MDPI | CHF 1,200 | source 2026-08-23 |
List prices from each publisher's own fee page, before tax and waivers, in the publisher's currency (MDPI and Frontiers in CHF, Copernicus and EDP in EUR). Hybrid journals cost nothing through the subscription route. Journals are grouped by title; check the journal's scope before submitting. Search all verified prices.