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Internet Archive
Who runs Internet Archive, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest digital library alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Digital Public Library of America
Measured from Internet Archive’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Internet Archive01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Internet Archive
Internet Archive archive.org
Wikidata: U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Internet Archive 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
None of the 18 alternatives below has fewer; 6 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Internet Archive’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Internet Archive
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Internet Archive, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
American aggregation platform providing open access to digital collections from libraries, archives, and museums.
Very close - 02 HathiTrust Digital Library hathitrust.org
digital library
Very close - 03
Free eBooks | Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 75,000 free eBooks. Choose from ebook formats or read online. No fees, no registration, no ads.
Very close - 04
Welcome to Open Library | Open Library
Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.
Very close - 05
Discover Europe’s digital cultural heritage | Europeana
Search, save and share art, books, films and music from thousands of cultural institutions
Very close - 06
Wikisource
online multilingual library that collects open-content source material
Very close - 07
Home | Library of Congress
The world's largest library. View historic photos, maps, books and more. Contact experts for help with research. Plan a visit. Home of U.S. Copyright Office.
Very close - 08
Wikimedia
The Wikimedia movement is a global community of people, projects, and activities working together to create and share knowledge freely.
Very close - 09
Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover
Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. Download free ebooks with professional-quality formatting and typography, in formats compatible with your ereader.
Very close - 10
national library
Very close - 11
Privacy Guides
Established in 2021, Privacy Guides is the largest impartial, non-profit media outlet focused on finding privacy tools and learning about protecting your digital life.
Very close - 12
Ghostarchive, a website archive
web archiving site
Very close - 13
global library cooperative
Very close - 14
Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
Very close - 15
The British Library - the national Library of the UK
Visit the national library of the UK. Explore our buildings, study, meet friends, attend an event and get free access to over 170 million items. Join us.
Very close - 16
LibriVox | free public domain audiobooks
public domain audiobook project
Very close - 17
KB, National Library of the Netherlands
View the digital, printed and written heritage collections of the Netherlands: manuscripts, catalogues, digital literacy services, books, magazines, newspapers and maps.
Very close - 18
OSF
tools that make open science practice easier
Very close - 19
Joomla Content Management System (CMS) - try it! It's free!
Joomla! is the mobile-ready and user-friendly way to build your website. Choose from thousands of features and designs. Joomla! is free and open source.
Very close - 20
DataCite – Connecting Research, Advancing Knowledge - DataCite
international not-for-profit organization which aims to improve data citation
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Internet Archive’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Internet Archive 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 Internet Archive 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 · 6 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 47 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Internet Archive’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
Built with
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx/1.26.3
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX smtp.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms84122558
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=AayvCFYrHZxErANHNVvoXR/RxRkCrZHgMCRDL2l…
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: Q2YSouphkkgHkFNP7FgAkc4TmBs1Gmag3uGNndb53B8
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 mx ip4:207.241.224.6/32 ip4:207.241.224.2/32 include:_spf.goog…
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Microsoft 365 9/20
- Google Workspace 8/20
- Cloudflare · not on archive.org 8/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on archive.org 7/20
- Atlassian 4/20
- jsDelivr · not on archive.org 4/20
- Font Awesome · not on archive.org 4/20
- jQuery · not on archive.org 4/20
- PHP · not on archive.org 4/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on archive.org 3/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on archive.org 2/20
- Bing Webmaster Tools · not on archive.org 2/20
- nginx 2/20
- Bootstrap · not on archive.org 2/20
- Mailchimp · not on archive.org 2/20