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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
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to MetaCPAN, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network - www.cpan.org
Perl package repository
Very close - 02
crates.io: Rust Package Registry
crates.io serves as a central registry for sharing crates, which are packages or libraries written in Rust that you can use to enhance your projects
Close - 03
RubyGems.org | your community gem host
package manager for Ruby
Close - 04
Composer
A Dependency Manager for PHP
Close - 05
package manager for the Node.js JavaScript runtime environment
Close - 06
Docs.rs
official documentation website for Rust libraries
Close - 07
Raku®
The Raku® programming language.
Close - 08
The Lens - Patent and Scholarly Search and Analysis
The Lens serves all the patents and scholarly work in the world as an open and secure digital public good, with user privacy a paramount focus.
Close - 09
Swift Programming Language
Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.
Close - 10
PostgreSQL: The world's most advanced open source database
The official site for PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database
Close - 11
Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
Close - 12 Very close
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Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
Close - 14
Zenodo
research data repository
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PHP
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
Close - 16
Can I use... Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc
"Can I use" provides up-to-date browser support tables for support of front-end web technologies on desktop and mobile web browsers.
Close - 17
online bibliographic database
Close - 18
MediaWiki
free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation
Close - 19
Perl.com - programming news, code and culture
Since 1997 Perl.com has published articles about the Perl programming language, its culture and community.
Close - 20
R: The R Project for Statistical Computing
programming language for statistical analysis
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles MetaCPAN’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones MetaCPAN uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
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, the competitor map and search numbers · 5 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,197
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 31 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to MetaCPAN’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
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