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Cogent Communications

Who runs Cogent Communications, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest business internet and IP transit alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
Zayo

Measured from Cogent Communications’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Cogent Communications

Cogent Communications cogentco.com

Cogent is one of the world's largest Internet Service Providers, delivering high-quality Internet, Ethernet and Colocation services.

Wikidata: multinational internet service provider

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Cogent Communications 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.

tracker that follows visitors

2 of the 17 alternatives below have fewer, 7 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
2 tools
  • 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 Cogent Communications

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Cogent Communications, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Fewer trackers than Cogent CommunicationsNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

11 of the 60 sites closest to Cogent Communications match.

  1. 01
    NetCologne netcologne.de Top 10K German No trackers

    Internet, Glasfaser & DSL für dein Zuhause | NetCologne

    Dein Internetanbieter aus Köln ✓ Glasfaser & DSL für jedes Veedel ✓ starke Tarife, regionaler Service & stabiles Netz ✓ Internet jetzt prüfen & Tarif finden!

    Compare NetCologne with Cogent Communications →
  2. 02
    XS4ALL xs4all.nl Top 10K Dutch No trackers

    XS4ALL - First Class Internet

    XS4ALL First Class Internets, Televisie en Bellen. Voor veilig en betrouwbaar internet. Al jaren bekroond voor de allerbeste service.

    Compare XS4ALL with Cogent Communications →
  3. 03
    Pars Online parsonline.com Persian No trackers

    پارس آنلاین | اینترنت پرسرعت، پهنای باند اختصاصی و دیتاسنتر

    پارس آنلاین ارائه‌دهنده اینترنت پرسرعت خانگی و سازمانی، پهنای باند اختصاصی، خدمات دیتاسنتر و میزبانی سرور با پایداری بالا و پشتیبانی 24/7.

    Compare Pars Online with Cogent Communications →
  4. 04
    Free free.fr Top 1K French No trackers

    Freebox, offres internet Très Haut Débit fibre, ADSL - Free

    Découvrez les offres internet Freebox de Free : Fibre optique, Wi-Fi 7, TV incluse. Freebox Ultra, Pop, Révolution Light... Trouvez l'offre qui vous correspond.

    Compare Free with Cogent Communications →
  5. 05
    1und1.de Top 10K German No trackers

    1&1 Mobilfunk und Internet > Alles aus einer Hand

    Die besten Angebote für Mobilfunk & Internet ➤ Günstige Tarife ✓ Handys & Tablets ✓ Highspeed Internet ✓ Top Service ➤ Jetzt bei 1&1 informieren!

    Compare 1und1.de with Cogent Communications →
  6. 06
    Orange orange.com Top 10K English No trackers

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    French multinational telecommunications enterprise

    Compare Orange with Cogent Communications →
  7. 07
    Utiq utiq.com English No trackers

    Utiq enables responsible digital marketing - Utiq

    Utiq delivers an Authentic Consent Service, giving users simple and easy control over their data

    Compare Utiq with Cogent Communications →
  8. 08
    Shodan shodan.io Top 10K English No trackers

    Shodan Search Engine

    Search Engine for the Internet of Things

    Compare Shodan with Cogent Communications →
  9. 09
    Clue clue.com No trackers

    Clue® Computing Home Page

    Compare Clue with Cogent Communications →
  10. 10
    IP Echo ipecho.net Top 10K No trackers

    IP Echo Service

    Compare IP Echo with Cogent Communications →
  11. 11
    AT&T att.com Top 10K English No trackers

    AT&T Official Site | Our Best Wireless & Internet Service

    Get our best deals on phones and internet, backed by the AT&T Guarantee. Shop the latest devices, get 24/7 support, and manage your account online.

    Compare AT&T with Cogent Communications →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Cogent Communications’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Cogent Communications 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 Cogent Communications 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 · 11 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,216
Vector
384-d
Query
44 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Cogent Communications’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

IP EchoClueShodanUtiqOrange1und1.deFreePars OnlineXS4ALLNetCologne

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JavaScript libraries
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CSS & UI
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Email hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
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