letsencrypt.org
Let's Encrypt
Who runs Let's Encrypt, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest SSL/TLS certificate authority alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- ZeroSSL
Measured from Let's Encrypt’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Let's Encrypt01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Let's Encrypt
Let's Encrypt letsencrypt.org
Let's Encrypt is a free, automated, and open Certificate Authority brought to you by the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). Read all about our work in our Annual Report.
Wikidata: certificate authority launched in 2015
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Let's Encrypt 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 20 alternatives below has fewer; 18 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Let's Encrypt’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Let's Encrypt
None of the 60 sites closest to Let's Encrypt 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 Let's Encrypt 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
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 39 ms
Built with
- CSS & UI
- Font Awesome asset https://letsencrypt.org/fontawesome-free-6.5.2-web/css/all.min.css
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ip4:23.178.112.0/24 ip4:64.78.194.68 i…
- Hosting
- Netlify header x-nf-request-id: 01M6R294X135J5M97CCQHJDCQN
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS owen.ns.cloudflare.com
Sitemaps
, 34 of them guides, blog or magazine pages.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on letsencrypt.org 15/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on letsencrypt.org 12/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on letsencrypt.org 9/20
- Cloudflare · not on letsencrypt.org 7/20
- Google Workspace 7/20
- jQuery · not on letsencrypt.org 7/20
- Google Fonts · not on letsencrypt.org 7/20
- Atlassian · not on letsencrypt.org 6/20
- Font Awesome 5/20
- Salesforce · not on letsencrypt.org 5/20
- Google Analytics · not on letsencrypt.org 5/20
- PHP · not on letsencrypt.org 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS 4/20
- Bootstrap · not on letsencrypt.org 4/20
- Apple Business · not on letsencrypt.org 4/20
- UltraDNS · not on letsencrypt.org 4/20