aei.org
AEI
Who runs AEI, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest public policy think tank alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- The Heritage Foundation
Measured from AEI’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit AEI01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs AEI
AEI aei.org
Economic Policy Studies Advancing free-market solutions and fiscal responsibility for a dynamic, growing economy. Foreign and Defense Policy Studies Strengthening our military and alliances to support America’s global leadership. Domestic Policy Studies Expanding opportunity for...
Wikidata: American conservative think tank founded in 1938
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What AEI tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
6 of the 12 alternatives below have fewer, 5 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 3 tools
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to AEI
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to AEI, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01 The Heritage Foundation heritage.org
American conservative think tank founded in 1973
Very close - 02
Brookings - Quality. Independence. Impact.
The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC. Our mission is to conduct in-depth research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national and global level.
Very close - 03
American think tank in Washington, D.C.
Very close - 04
Peterson Institute for International Economics
The Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical policy solutions.
Very close - 05 Urban Institute urban.org
American think tank
Very close - 06
American research organization
Very close - 07
Council on Foreign Relations
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an independent, nonpartisan member organization, think tank, and publisher.
Very close - 08
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace generates strategic ideas and independent analysis, supports diplomacy, and trains the next generation of scholar-practitioners to help countries and institutions take on the most difficult global problems and advance peace.
Very close - 09
Pew Research Center | Nonpartisan, nonadvocacy, public opinion polling and data-driven social science research
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Very close - 10
Brennan Center for Justice
Defend Democracy. Reform Justice. Protect the Constitution. The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law works to build an America that is democratic, just, and free.
Very close - 11 Centre for Economic Policy Research cepr.org
European economic research network based in London
Very close - 12
executive department of the United States federal government
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American private research institute (1994-)
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National Bureau of Economic Research | NBER
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
Very close - 15
The White House
President Donald J. Trump and Vice President JD Vance are committed to lowering costs for all Americans, securing our borders, unleashing American energy dominance, restoring peace through strength, and making all Americans safe and secure once again.
Very close - 16
NORC at the University of Chicago | Research You Can Trust
NORC at the University of Chicago is an objective, nonpartisan research organization that delivers insights and analysis decision-makers trust.
Very close - 17
non-profit organization in the USA
Very close - 18
CIA
national foreign intelligence agency of the United States
Very close - 19
Freedom House | Expanding and Defending Freedom Worldwide
Freedom House is founded on the core conviction that freedom flourishes in democratic nations where governments are accountable to their people.
Very close - 20
Census.gov | U.S. Census Bureau Homepage
The Census Bureau's mission is to serve as the nation's leading provider of quality data about its people and economy.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles AEI’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones AEI uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what AEI 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, the competitor map and search numbers · 19 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 27 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to AEI’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
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- CMS
- WordPress page source: /wp-content/
- JavaScript libraries
- CSS & UI
- Font Awesome asset https://use.fontawesome.com/
- Fonts
- Adobe Fonts asset https://use.typekit.net/
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Marketing automation
- HubSpot page source: js.hsforms.net
- Monitoring
- New Relic page source: NREUM
- CDN
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- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
- Email hosting
- Barracuda MX d357194a.ess.barracudanetworks.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms71212688
- Email delivery
- Brevo TXT brevo-code:acb0546c2443cf15a938e3e5a0251fb9
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS kip.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
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What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Microsoft 365 18/20
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Cloudflare 11/20
- Cloudflare DNS 11/20
- Google Tag Manager 8/20
- PHP 7/20
- Atlassian · not on aei.org 7/20
- Adobe · not on aei.org 6/20
- Apple Business · not on aei.org 5/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on aei.org 5/20
- Mailchimp · not on aei.org 5/20
- Google Fonts · not on aei.org 4/20
- Zoom · not on aei.org 4/20
- Drupal · not on aei.org 4/20
- Fastly · not on aei.org 4/20
- Pantheon · not on aei.org 4/20