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CPAN
Who runs CPAN, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest software package repository alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
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- Closest alternative
- MetaCPAN
Measured from CPAN’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit CPAN01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs CPAN
CPAN cpan.org
Wikidata: Perl package repository
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What CPAN 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
15 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 0 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to CPAN
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to CPAN, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Search the CPAN - metacpan.org
open source search engine for the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN)
Very close - 02
RubyGems.org | your community gem host
package manager for Ruby
Very close - 03
package manager for the Node.js JavaScript runtime environment
Close - 04
PostgreSQL: The world's most advanced open source database
The official site for PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database
Very close - 05
Composer
A Dependency Manager for PHP
Very close - 06
Swift Programming Language
Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.
Very close - 07
Raku®
The Raku® programming language.
Very close - 08
Bundler: The best way to manage a Ruby application's gems
Close - 09
NuGet Gallery | Home
The NuGet Gallery is the central package repository for NuGet, the package manager for .NET.
Very close - 10
Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
Very close - 11
MediaWiki
free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation
Very close - 12
PHP
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
Very close - 13
PCRE - Perl Compatible Regular Expressions
The PCRE library is a set of functions that implement regular expression pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl 5. PCRE has its own native API as well as a set of wrapper functions that correspond to the POSIX regular expression API.
Very close - 14
Symfony, High Performance PHP Framework for Web Development
Symfony is a web framework and a set of reusable PHP packages to build web applications, APIs, microservices and CLI apps.
Very close - 15 Dataverse dataverse.org
open source web application to share, preserve, cite, explore and analyze research data
Very close - 16
Docs.rs
official documentation website for Rust libraries
Very close - 17
SQLite Home Page
serverless relational database management system (RDBMS)
Very close - 18
Use JSDoc: Index
Official documentation for JSDoc.
Very close - 19
Zenodo
research data repository
Close - 20
Nix & NixOS | Reproducible builds and deployments
Nix is a tool that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration. Learn how to make reproducible, declarative and reliable systems.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles CPAN’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones CPAN 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 CPAN 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 · 5 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 63 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to CPAN’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
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-dfw-kdfw8210133-DFW, cache-ber1080021-BER
- Web servers
- Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache/2.4.69 (Unix)
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=B57sRQpmte4G4w-gavZbVNmmNsMxGp5kcL19U…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=_HYFt4dtzZfpLzGO-PGAl1yCPvERNFbf3zdRKjC09AM
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 15/20
- Google Workspace · not on cpan.org 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on cpan.org 6/20
- Fastly 5/20
- nginx · not on cpan.org 5/20
- GlobalSign 4/20
- Cloudflare · not on cpan.org 4/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on cpan.org 4/20
- Font Awesome · not on cpan.org 3/20
- Amazon SES · not on cpan.org 2/20
- Mailchimp · not on cpan.org 2/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on cpan.org 2/20
- cdnjs · not on cpan.org 2/20
- Matomo · not on cpan.org 2/20
- Mailgun · not on cpan.org 2/20