Health · head-to-head
LAPIS vs Open Disease
LAPIS is the open, keyless REST API behind covSPECTRUM, serving aggregated counts, sequence details, and mutation queries over SARS-CoV-2 genomic data drawn from public sources like GenBank and Nextstrain, documented via an OpenAPI v2 endpoint at lapis.cov-spectrum.org. The frontend's old ETH Zurich domain, cov-spectrum.ethz.ch, now 301-redirects permanently to cov-spectrum.org — 'url' corrected to the live domain. A live GET against lapis.cov-spectrum.org/open/v2/ returns Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, reconfirming the stored 'yes' cors.
disease.sh aggregates COVID-19, influenza, and general public-health case/vaccination data from Johns Hopkins CSSE, WHO, and other public feeds into a single keyless JSON API, with endpoints scoped by country, US state, or continent plus historical time-series. A live GET against disease.sh/v3/covid-19/all and a live Origin-header probe both return Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, reconfirming the already-stored 'yes'.
| LAPIS | Open Disease | |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | None | None |
| Pricing | free | free |
| Formats | JSON | JSON |
| CORS | yes | yes |
| HTTPS | Yes | Yes |