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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

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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

8 of the 60 sites closest to Cogent Communications match.

  1. 01
    Orange orange.com Top 10K English No trackers

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    French multinational telecommunications enterprise

    Compare Orange with Cogent Communications →
  2. 02
    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 →
  3. 03
    Shodan shodan.io Top 10K English No trackers

    Shodan Search Engine

    Search Engine for the Internet of Things

    Compare Shodan with Cogent Communications →
  4. 04
    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 →
  5. 05
    OVHcloud ovhcloud.com Top 10K English No trackers

    OVHcloud

    OVHcloud is a global, cloud provider delivering hosted private cloud, public cloud, and dedicated server solutions trusted by over 1.5 million developers.

    Compare OVHcloud with Cogent Communications →
  6. 06
    OpenText opentext.com English No trackers

    OpenText | Secure Information Management for AI

    OpenText helps organizations securely manage and connect data across the enterprise, transforming data into trusted, AI-ready information.

    Compare OpenText with Cogent Communications →
  7. 07
    Netgear netgear.com Top 10K English No trackers

    NETGEAR: Advanced WiFi & Networking

    At NETGEAR we turn ideas into innovative networking products that connect people, power businesses & advance the way we live. Easy to use. Powerful. Smart.

    Compare Netgear with Cogent Communications →
  8. 08
    Windscribe windscribe.com English No trackers

    VPN service that's fast, reliable, & effective | Windscribe

    Protect your privacy, stream global content, and mask your location with the best VPN service. Enjoy fast speeds and servers in over 135 locations.

    Compare Windscribe 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
9,214
Vector
384-d
Query
36 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

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Built with

CMS
  • Joomla meta generator: Joomla! - Open Source Content Management
JavaScript libraries
  • jQuery asset https://cogentco.com/media/jui/js/jquery.min.js?319c45b94e55c6bfa607d6a5511ac5cd
CSS & UI
  • Bootstrap asset https://cogentco.com/plugins/system/bootstrap_3/assets/js/bootstrap.min.js
  • Font Awesome asset https://cogentco.com/templates/c2020/css/font-awesome.css
Fonts
  • Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Montserrat:ital,wght@0,100;0,200;0,300;0,400;0,5…
Tag managers
Web servers
Languages & backends
  • PHP header x-powered-by: PHP/7.4.33
Email hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=f26b18445e54e1e7da0ebc2c299a9f1c63820cf9a…
  • Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_6LoiHccIcBeiFmEkJmfiR4