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MetaCPAN
Who runs MetaCPAN, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest software package repository alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- CPAN
Measured from MetaCPAN’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit MetaCPAN01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs MetaCPAN
MetaCPAN metacpan.org
Wikidata: open source search engine for the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN)
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What MetaCPAN 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 18 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 MetaCPAN’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to MetaCPAN
None of the 60 sites closest to MetaCPAN 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 MetaCPAN 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
- 32 ms
Built with
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-fra-etou8220095-FRA, cache-fra-etou8220095-FRA, cache…
- Email hosting
- Fastmail MX in1-smtp.messagingengine.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS noel.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=mVYWxIl-2ab_B1yPPFxEmDCLrBcl6ucouXJOU…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=RaOtYXpRIzBroICq4P2_prM13j4MJUFITHAv7JAFouU
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Fastly 7/20
- nginx · not on metacpan.org 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on metacpan.org 6/20
- GlobalSign 5/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on metacpan.org 5/20
- Google Workspace · not on metacpan.org 4/20
- Font Awesome · not on metacpan.org 4/20
- Google Analytics · not on metacpan.org 3/20
- Amazon SES · not on metacpan.org 3/20
- Cloudflare · not on metacpan.org 3/20
- Cloudflare DNS 3/20
- Zendesk · not on metacpan.org 3/20
- jQuery · not on metacpan.org 3/20
- Matomo · not on metacpan.org 3/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on metacpan.org 2/20