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Internet Archive

Who runs Internet Archive, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest digital library alternatives.

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Prices
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01 · 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.

No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

20 of the 60 sites closest to Internet Archive match.

  1. 01
    Project Gutenberg gutenberg.org Top 10K English No trackers

    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.

    Compare Project Gutenberg with Internet Archive →
  2. 02
    Open Library openlibrary.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    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.

    Compare Open Library with Internet Archive →
  3. 03
    Europeana europeana.eu English 1 tracker

    Discover Europe’s digital cultural heritage | Europeana

    Search, save and share art, books, films and music from thousands of cultural institutions

    Compare Europeana with Internet Archive →
  4. 04
    Wikisource wikisource.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Wikisource

    online multilingual library that collects open-content source material

    Compare Wikisource with Internet Archive →
  5. 05
    Library of Congress loc.gov Top 1K English 1 tracker

    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.

    Compare Library of Congress with Internet Archive →
  6. 06
    Wikimedia wikimedia.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Wikimedia

    The Wikimedia movement is a global community of people, projects, and activities working together to create and share knowledge freely.

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  7. 07
    Standard Ebooks standardebooks.org English No trackers

    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.

    Compare Standard Ebooks with Internet Archive →
  8. 08
    Privacy Guides privacyguides.org English No trackers

    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.

    Compare Privacy Guides with Internet Archive →
  9. 09
    OCLC oclc.org Top 10K English No trackers

    global library cooperative

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  10. 10
    JSTOR jstor.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Client Challenge

    distributor of eBooks and other digital media

    Compare JSTOR with Internet Archive →
  11. 11
    British Library bl.uk English 1 tracker

    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.

    Compare British Library with Internet Archive →
  12. 12
    LibriVox librivox.org English No trackers

    LibriVox | free public domain audiobooks

    public domain audiobook project

    Compare LibriVox with Internet Archive →
  13. 13
    KB kb.nl English No trackers

    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.

    Compare KB with Internet Archive →
  14. 14
    OSF osf.io Top 10K English 1 tracker

    OSF

    tools that make open science practice easier

    Compare OSF with Internet Archive →
  15. 15
    Joomla joomla.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    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.

    Compare Joomla with Internet Archive →
  16. 16
    DataCite datacite.org English No trackers

    DataCite – Connecting Research, Advancing Knowledge - DataCite

    international not-for-profit organization which aims to improve data citation

    Compare DataCite with Internet Archive →
  17. 17
    Fight for the Future fightforthefuture.org English No trackers

    Fight for the Future

    Who are we? We are a group of artists, engineers, activists, and technologists who have been behind the largest online protests in human history, channeling Internet outrage into political power to win public interest victories previously thought to be impossible. We fight for a future where technology is a force for liberation— not oppression. Battle […]

    Compare Fight for the Future with Internet Archive →
  18. 18
    BnF bnf.fr Top 10K English No trackers

    Accueil | BnF – Site institutionnel

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  19. 19
    National Library of Scotland nls.uk English 2 trackers

    National Library of Scotland | Home

    Learn about who we are and what we do at the National Library of Scotland. Read stories, donate, request an item, or find out how to research our collections.

    Compare National Library of Scotland with Internet Archive →
  20. 20
    National Archives and Records Administration archives.gov Top 10K English 1 tracker

    National Archives | Home

    National Archives and Records Administration

    Compare National Archives and Records Administration with Internet Archive →

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

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 = 60
Sites searched
9,212
Vector
384-d
Query
44 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

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