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EPFL

Who runs EPFL, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest Technical university alternatives.

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

Measured from EPFL’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 EPFL

EPFL epfl.ch

Based in Lausanne (Switzerland), EPFL is a university whose three missions are education, research and innovation.

Wikidata: university in Ecublens, Switzerland

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

02 · Privacy

What EPFL 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

5 of the 20 alternatives below have fewer, 3 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
1 tool

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to EPFL

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

Fewer trackers than EPFLNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

10 of the 60 sites closest to EPFL match.

  1. 01
    RWTH Aachen University rwth-aachen.de Top 10K English No trackers

    RWTH Aachen University | Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule | EN

    Die RWTH Aachen ist ein Ort, an dem die Zukunft unserer industrialisierten Welt gedacht wird - Thinking the Future

    Compare RWTH Aachen University with EPFL →
  2. 02
    TUM tum.de Top 10K English No trackers

    Technical University of Munich: The Entrepreneurial University - TUM

    Technical University of Munich: One of Germany's leading universities for research and teaching in natural sciences and engineering.

    Compare TUM with EPFL →
  3. 03
    TU Wien tuwien.at English No trackers

    TU Wien | TU Wien

    Homepage, TU Wien, TUW "Technology for people". News. Everything about: studies, research, patnerships, services.

    Compare TU Wien with EPFL →
  4. 04
    University of Geneva unige.ch No trackers

    Vérification de sécurité / Security Check

    public research university located in Geneva, Switzerland

    Compare University of Geneva with EPFL →
  5. 05
    University of Bern unibe.ch German No trackers

    Universität Bern

    Die Universität Bern ist eine 1834 gegründete Volluniversität in der Stadt Bern, mit acht Fakultäten, rund 150 Instituten und 9 inter- und transdisziplinäre Kompetenzzentren.

    Compare University of Bern with EPFL →
  6. 06
    Chalmers University of Technology chalmers.se English No trackers

    Chalmers University of Technology

    We push for solutions to important societal challenges every day, test new ideas and contribute to the development of a sustainable future.

    Compare Chalmers University of Technology with EPFL →
  7. 07
    Tsinghua University tsinghua.edu.cn Top 10K No trackers

    清华大学

    public university in Beijing, China

    Compare Tsinghua University with EPFL →
  8. 08
    University of Leeds leeds.ac.uk Top 10K English No trackers

    University of Leeds

    The University of Leeds is a large UK higher education institution and part of the Russell Group of leading universities.

    Compare University of Leeds with EPFL →
  9. 09
    IZA iza.org English No trackers

    Welcome | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics

    Welcome to the IZA@LISER Network website

    Compare IZA with EPFL →
  10. 10
    uni-erlangen.de Top 10K German No trackers

    Wissen bewegen | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität

    Mit über 275 Studiengängen, exzellenter Forschung und internationalen Kooperationen prägt die FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft.

    Compare uni-erlangen.de with EPFL →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles EPFL’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones EPFL 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 EPFL 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 · 7 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,216
Vector
384-d
Query
345 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to EPFL’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.

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