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BnF
Who runs BnF, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest national library alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
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- Closest alternative
- Biblioteca Nacional de España
Measured from BnF’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit BnF01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs BnF
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What BnF 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 17 alternatives below has fewer; 10 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on BnF’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to BnF
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to BnF, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Home | National Library of Australia (NLA)
national reference library in Canberra, Australia
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Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique est le plus grand organisme public français de recherche scientifique. Il exerce son activité dans
Very close - 07
National Archives | Home
National Archives and Records Administration
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Discover Europe’s digital cultural heritage | Europeana
Search, save and share art, books, films and music from thousands of cultural institutions
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Musée du Louvre Official Website
Welcome to the Louvre – prepare your visit, explore the palace and museum collections and check out the latest news
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Making sure you're not a bot!
French research institution in computer science
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Language selection | Belgium.be
country in western Europe
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Inserm
L'Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (Inserm) est le seul organisme de recherche public français entièrement dédié à la santé humaine. Notre objectif : améliorer la santé de tous par le progrès des connaissances sur le vivant et sur les maladies, l’innovation dans les traitements et la recherche en santé publique.
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Canada.ca
The Government of Canada website is a single point of access to all programs, services, departments, ministries and organizations of the Government of Canada.
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U.S. Copyright Office | U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright Office Homepage
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CNES - Centre national d'études spatiales
A la fois agence de programme, centre technique et opérateur spatial, le CNES réunit toutes les fonctions permettant au gouvernement français de définir et mettre en œuvre sa stratégie spatiale.
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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive
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Welcome to The National Archives
Explore 1,000 years of history with the official national archive of the UK Government.
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Welcome to Nigeria - Nigerian Information Portal
Welcome to Nigeria.gov.ng The National Portal of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Find all the information about government and services. PresidentBOLA AHMED TINUBU President, Federal Republic of Nigeria Visit StateHouse.gov.ng Agbokim Waterfalls, Cross River StateGurara Waterfalls, Niger StateNational Arts TheatreThe National Theatre is a cultural landmark and performing arts center located in […]
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Homepage | CNIL
national French data protection authority
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Tate
Tate is a family of art galleries in London, Liverpool and Cornwall, known as Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Tate St Ives and Tate Liverpool + RIBA North. Tate art museum houses the UK's collection of British art from 1500 and of international modern art
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles BnF’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones BnF 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 BnF 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 · 9 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,196
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 32 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to BnF’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
- CMS
- Drupal header x-generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://www.bnf.fr/core/assets/vendor/jquery/jquery.min.js?v=3.5.1
- CSS & UI
- Bootstrap asset https://www.bnf.fr/themes/contrib/bootstrap/js/drupal.bootstrap.js?to1xoy
- CDN
- jsDelivr asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/flatpickr@4.6.3/dist/flatpickr.min.css
- Web servers
- Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by Drupal (header x-generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org))
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms53341810
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on bnf.fr 16/20
- Microsoft 365 14/20
- jQuery 7/20
- Atlassian · not on bnf.fr 6/20
- Cloudflare · not on bnf.fr 5/20
- PHP 5/20
- Apple Business · not on bnf.fr 4/20
- Drupal 4/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on bnf.fr 4/20
- GlobalSign · not on bnf.fr 4/20
- Google Fonts · not on bnf.fr 3/20
- jsDelivr 3/20
- Adobe 3/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on bnf.fr 3/20
- Font Awesome · not on bnf.fr 2/20
- Azure Front Door · not on bnf.fr 2/20