Scilio vs. Faculty.bio
Looking for a Faculty.bio alternative for your academic website?
Faculty.bio is a website builder made for academics — sections for teaching, supervision and publications, a free published site, and importers that pull your list from ORCID or Google Scholar. For some people it's the right choice. Scilio solves a narrower problem: a beautiful, zero-maintenance portfolio of your publications and projects, without building and managing a whole website. Here is an honest comparison so you can pick the right tool.
| Scilio | Faculty.bio | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Researchers who want a focused portfolio of their publications and projects | Academics who want a full personal website — teaching history, supervised students, blog, custom sections |
| Free plan | Full editor, unlimited entries and free publishing at a scilio.app/yourname address | Published website on a free faculty.bio subdomain, up to 30 content blocks (each section, blog post, project or publication counts as one) |
| Paid plans | One plan: €5/month, or €4/month billed yearly (€48) — adds your own domain, themes and visitor analytics | Three tiers: $3, $7 or $15/month billed yearly (USD) — mainly raising the block limit and adding a custom domain and analytics. Monthly billing exists, but the prices aren't published |
| Publications | Structured entries with authors, abstracts, tags and dates — plus DOI autofill and BibTeX import with a duplicate-flagging review step | Importers for ORCID, PubMed, Google Scholar, Mendeley and Zotero |
| Projects | Yes — with descriptions, partners and links | Yes — as content blocks |
| Themes & design | 20 hand-crafted themes — switch your whole portfolio with one click | No theme gallery or design options advertised on its site |
| Blog, teaching & extra sections | No — Scilio is deliberately portfolio-only | Yes — blog posts, teaching history, supervised students, plus a LinkedIn profile import |
| Custom domain | Yes, with Pro — enter your domain and DNS + SSL are handled for you | Yes, on the paid tiers |
| Visitor analytics | Yes, with Pro — anonymous, cookie-free views with trends, top sources and countries | Yes, on the paid tiers |
| Hosting & maintenance | Fully managed — edits go live instantly | Fully managed |
Faculty.bio facts checked on faculty.bio on August 1, 2026. Spotted something outdated? Tell us at support@scilio.appand we'll correct it.
What makes Scilio different
A portfolio, not a website project
There are no pages to arrange and no site structure to plan. You add publications and projects into a purpose-built editor, and the layout is always handled for you.
Design-first themes
Every Scilio theme is hand-crafted as a complete look and applies to your whole portfolio with one click — you never tune colors and fonts to get something presentable.
Built to be found by name
Every published portfolio ships with Person structured data (schema.org), the markup search engines use to connect a page to a researcher's name.
Your publication list imports itself
Paste a DOI to autofill a single paper, or import your whole list from a BibTeX file — with a review step that flags likely duplicates before anything is added. Both are included in the free plan.
When Faculty.bio is the better choice
An honest comparison cuts both ways. Pick Faculty.bio over Scilio if:
You want a custom domain on a free plan — with Scilio it comes with Pro
You'd rather import publications straight from ORCID, PubMed or Google Scholar than paste a DOI or upload a BibTeX file
You're presenting more than research — teaching history, supervised students, a blog — and want your LinkedIn profile imported to start
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Try Scilio for free
Build your entire portfolio — publications, projects, profile — and publish it at scilio.app/yourname without paying a cent. Pro adds your own domain, themes and visitor analytics.