lz4.org

LZ4

Who runs LZ4, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest data compression software alternatives.

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

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs LZ4

LZ4 lz4.org

Wikidata: Compression algorithm

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

02 · Privacy

What LZ4 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; 5 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found

We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on LZ4’s homepage.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to LZ4

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to LZ4, thumbs down if it isn’t.

No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English
  1. 01
    zlib zlib.net Top 10K No trackers

    zlib Home Site

    lossless compression library

    Compare zlib with LZ4 →
  2. 02
    7-Zip 7-zip.org Top 10K No trackers

    7-Zip

    open-source file archiver and extractor

    Compare 7-Zip with LZ4 →
  3. 03
    GZIP gzip.org Top 10K English No trackers

    The gzip home page

    file format

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  4. 04
    PHP php.net Top 1K English 1 tracker

    PHP

    PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

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  5. 05
    OpenJPEG openjpeg.org English 1 tracker

    OpenJPEG

    reference software of the JPEG 2000 image format

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  6. 06
    Swift swift.org English No trackers

    Swift Programming Language

    Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.

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  7. 07
    PostgreSQL postgresql.org Top 10K English No trackers

    PostgreSQL: The world's most advanced open source database

    The official site for PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database

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  8. 08
    sqlite.org Top 10K No trackers

    SQLite Home Page

    serverless relational database management system (RDBMS)

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  9. 09
    libpng.org Top 10K No trackers

    libpng.org: top level

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  10. 10
    Skia skia.org English No trackers

    Skia

    2D Graphics Library

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  11. 11
    Valkey valkey.io English 2 trackers

    Valkey

    NoSQL database management software forked from Redis

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  12. 12
    GitHub github.blog Top 10K English No trackers

    Home - The GitHub Blog

    Updates, ideas, and inspiration from GitHub to help developers build and design software.

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  13. 13
    graphicsmagick.org English No trackers

    GraphicsMagick Image Processing System

    GraphicsMagick is a robust collection of tools and libraries to read, write, and manipulate an image in any of the more popular image formats including GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PNG, PDF, and WebP. With GraphicsMagick you can create GIFs dynamically making it suitable for Web applications. You can also resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image and save your completed work in the same or differing image format.

    Compare graphicsmagick.org with LZ4 →
  14. 14
    JSDoc jsdoc.app English No trackers

    Use JSDoc: Index

    Official documentation for JSDoc.

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  15. 15
    Drupal drupal.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Client Challenge

    free and open-source web content management system

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  16. 16
    libjpeg-turbo libjpeg-turbo.org No trackers

    libjpeg-turbo | Main / libjpeg-turbo

    software library for processing JFIF images

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  17. 17
    Lua lua.org Top 10K No trackers

    The Programming Language Lua

    Official website of the Lua language

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  18. 18
    AMP ampproject.org Top 1K English No trackers

    AMP - a web component framework to easily create user-first web experiences - amp.dev

    Whether you are a publisher, e-commerce company, storyteller, advertiser or email sender, AMP makes it easy to create great experiences on the web. Use AMP to build websites, stories, ads and emails.

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  19. 19
    Lit lit.dev English 1 tracker

    Lit

    Simple. Fast. Web Components.

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  20. 20
    Svelte svelte.dev English No trackers

    Svelte • Web development for the rest of us

    Web development for the rest of us

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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles LZ4’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones LZ4 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 LZ4 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 · 6 technologies
Neighbours
k = 20
Sites searched
9,193
Vector
384-d
Query
38 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to LZ4’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

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