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Hyphanet

Who runs Hyphanet, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest anonymity network software alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
I2P

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Hyphanet

Hyphanet freenetproject.org

Wikidata: free software

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

02 · Privacy

What Hyphanet 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; 7 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found

We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Hyphanet’s homepage.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Hyphanet

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

No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English
  1. 01
    I2P geti2p.net English No trackers

    I2P - The Invisible Internet Project | EN

    I2P is a fully encrypted private network layer. Protect your online activity from surveillance and censorship with built-in end-to-end encryption.

    Compare I2P with Hyphanet →
  2. 02
    Tor Project torproject.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Tor Project | Anonymity Online

    Anonymity Online | Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance. Circumvent censorship.

    Compare Tor Project with Hyphanet →
  3. 03
    fsf.org English 1 tracker

    Front Page — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software

    organization supporting the free software movement

    Compare fsf.org with Hyphanet →
  4. 04

    development and dissemination of internet software and tools

    Compare Internet Systems Consortium with Hyphanet →
  5. 05
    FreeBSD freebsd.org Top 10K English No trackers

    The FreeBSD Project

    free Unix-like operating system

    Compare FreeBSD with Hyphanet →
  6. 06
    OpenStack openstack.org English No trackers

    Open Source Cloud Computing Infrastructure - OpenStack

    Deployed by thousands. Proven production at scale. OpenStack is a set of software components that provide common services for cloud infrastructure.

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  7. 07
    Joomla joomla.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Joomla Content Management System (CMS) - try it! It's free!

    Joomla! is the mobile-ready and user-friendly way to build your website. Choose from thousands of features and designs. Joomla! is free and open source.

    Compare Joomla with Hyphanet →
  8. 08
    NLnet Labs nlnetlabs.nl Top 10K English No trackers

    NLnet Labs - Home

    Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.

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  9. 09
    Privacy Guides privacyguides.org English No trackers

    Privacy Guides

    Established in 2021, Privacy Guides is the largest impartial, non-profit media outlet focused on finding privacy tools and learning about protecting your digital life.

    Compare Privacy Guides with Hyphanet →
  10. 10
    Apache Software Foundation apache.org Top 1K English 1 tracker

    Welcome to The Apache Software Foundation | Apache Software Foundation

    American nonprofit open-source software community

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  11. 11
    Codeberg e.V. codeberg.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Codeberg.org

    Codeberg is a non-profit community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.

    Compare Codeberg e.V. with Hyphanet →
  12. 12
    Debian debian.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Debian -- The Universal Operating System

    Debian is an operating system and a distribution of Free Software. It is maintained and updated through the work of many users who volunteer their time and effort.

    Compare Debian with Hyphanet →
  13. 13
    OSF osf.io Top 10K English 1 tracker

    OSF

    tools that make open science practice easier

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  14. 14
    Syncthing syncthing.net Top 10K English No trackers

    Syncthing

    open source continuous file synchronization software

    Compare Syncthing with Hyphanet →
  15. 15
    NetBSD netbsd.org English No trackers

    The NetBSD Project

    Compare NetBSD with Hyphanet →
  16. 16
    MariaDB mariadb.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    MariaDB Foundation - MariaDB.org

    database management system, relational, open source, community developed fork of MySQL

    Compare MariaDB with Hyphanet →
  17. 17
    Quad9 quad9.net Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Quad9 | A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy

    A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy

    Compare Quad9 with Hyphanet →
  18. 18
    Wikimedia wikimedia.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Wikimedia

    The Wikimedia movement is a global community of people, projects, and activities working together to create and share knowledge freely.

    Compare Wikimedia with Hyphanet →
  19. 19
    TYPO3 typo3.org English 1 tracker

    TYPO3 Project and Governance — Democratic Open Source - TYPO3 Project

    The TYPO3 project is a volunteer community backed by a not-for-profit member association, and a fully-owned service company.

    Compare TYPO3 with Hyphanet →
  20. 20
    Psiphon psiphon.ca No trackers

    Psiphon

    Open source, and trusted by millions: a censorship-resistant VPN that works where others fail.

    Compare Psiphon with Hyphanet →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Hyphanet’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Hyphanet 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 Hyphanet 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
38 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Hyphanet’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

SyncthingOSFDebianApache Software FoundationNLnet LabsJoomlaOpenStackFreeBSDfsf.orgI2P