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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
- –
- 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
None of the 60 sites closest to CPAN match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.
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 and search numbers · 5 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,217
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 35 ms
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