4chan.org
4chan
Who runs 4chan, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest imageboard forum alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Couldn’t check
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- 8chan/kun
Measured from 4chan’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit 4chan01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs 4chan
4chan 4chan.org
Wikidata: English-language imageboard website
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
02 · Privacy
What 4chan tracks
We couldn’t read 4chan.org’s homepage (bot protection page), so we can’t say what it loads.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to 4chan
None of the 60 sites closest to 4chan match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what 4chan adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack and search numbers · 3 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,212
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 36 ms
Built with
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577172ccd0edea4-HAM
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS rick.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=m4RTs-1axoNg8iHPjvprlvrEG4MvqqGVy5EjvBQWuBA
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Cloudflare 13/20
- Cloudflare DNS 13/20
- Google Workspace · not on 4chan.org 10/20
- Google Analytics · not on 4chan.org 8/20
- jQuery · not on 4chan.org 5/20
- PHP · not on 4chan.org 4/20
- Font Awesome · not on 4chan.org 3/20
- Google AdSense · not on 4chan.org 3/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on 4chan.org 3/20
- Amazon SES · not on 4chan.org 3/20
- nginx · not on 4chan.org 2/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on 4chan.org 2/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on 4chan.org 2/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on 4chan.org 2/20
- Mailgun · not on 4chan.org 2/20