crates.io
crates.io
Who runs crates.io, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest software package registry alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- RubyGems
Measured from crates.io’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit crates.io01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs crates.io
crates.io
crates.io serves as a central registry for sharing crates, which are packages or libraries written in Rust that you can use to enhance your projects
Wikidata: main package registry for the Rust programming language
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What crates.io 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 19 alternatives below has fewer; 3 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on crates.io’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to crates.io
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to crates.io, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
RubyGems.org | your community gem host
package manager for Ruby
Very close - 02
NuGet Gallery | Home
The NuGet Gallery is the central package repository for NuGet, the package manager for .NET.
Very close - 03
package manager for the Node.js JavaScript runtime environment
Very close - 04
Docs.rs
official documentation website for Rust libraries
Very close - 05
Rust Programming Language
A language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
Very close - 06
Search the CPAN - metacpan.org
open source search engine for the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN)
Close - 07
The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network - www.cpan.org
Perl package repository
Close - 08
Bundler: The best way to manage a Ruby application's gems
Close - 09
Artifact Hub
Find, install and publish Cloud Native packages
Very close - 10
Composer
A Dependency Manager for PHP
Close - 11
JSR: the JavaScript Registry
JSR is the open-source package registry for modern JavaScript. JSR natively supports TypeScript, and works with all JS runtimes and package managers.
Very close - 12
Swift Programming Language
Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.
Close - 13
Getting Started - MSYS2
Software Distribution and Building Platform for Windows
Very close - 14
Raku®
The Raku® programming language.
Close - 15
R: The R Project for Statistical Computing
programming language for statistical analysis
Close - 16
PHP
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
Close - 17
Home page | Yarn
Yarn, the modern JavaScript package manager
Close - 18 Close
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The Programming Language Lua
Official website of the Lua language
Close - 20
PostgreSQL: The world's most advanced open source database
The official site for PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database
Close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles crates.io’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones crates.io 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 crates.io 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 · 4 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 32 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to crates.io’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
- JavaScript frameworks
- SvelteKit page source: /_app/immutable/
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-ber1080047-BER
- Email delivery
- Mailgun TXT v=spf1 include:mailgun.org ~all
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-217.awsdns-27.com
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on crates.io 13/20
- Fastly 8/20
- Google Workspace · not on crates.io 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on crates.io 6/20
- GlobalSign · not on crates.io 4/20
- Cloudflare · not on crates.io 4/20
- nginx · not on crates.io 4/20
- Amazon Route 53 4/20
- GitHub Pages · not on crates.io 4/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on crates.io 3/20
- Amazon SES · not on crates.io 3/20
- Font Awesome · not on crates.io 3/20
- Bootstrap · not on crates.io 2/20
- Mailchimp · not on crates.io 2/20
- Mailgun 2/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on crates.io 2/20