ntp.org
NTP
Who runs NTP, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest open source time synchronization alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- NTPsec
Measured from NTP’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit NTP01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs NTP
NTP ntp.org
The NTP Project conducts Research and Development in NTP, a protocol designed to synchronize the clocks of computers over a network to a common timebase.
Wikidata: standard protocol for synchronizing time across devices
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What NTP 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
More than all 19 alternatives below.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 3 tools
Session recording
Records clicks, scrolling and typing so the company can replay visits.
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to NTP
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to NTP, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Welcome to NTPsec
implementation of Network Time Protocol
Very close - 02
chrony – Introduction
free NTP software
Very close - 03
pool.ntp.org: the internet cluster of ntp servers
Very close - 04
National Institute of Standards and Technology | NIST
NIST promotes U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life.
Very close - 05
The NetBSD Project
Very close - 06
The FreeBSD Project
free Unix-like operating system
Very close - 07 Close
- 08
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.
Close - 09
National Institute of Standards and Technology
NIST promotes U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life.
Close - 10
MariaDB Foundation - MariaDB.org
database management system, relational, open source, community developed fork of MySQL
Close - 11 Close
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IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is the premier Internet standards body, developing open standards through open processes.
Close - 13
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.
Close - 14
The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement
Since 1983, developing the free Unix style operating system GNU, so that computer users can have the freedom to share and improve the software they use.
Close - 15
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.
Close - 16
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
ICANN’s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet.
Close - 17
development and dissemination of internet software and tools
Close - 18
Welcome to Python.org
The official home of the Python Programming Language
Close - 19
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.
Close - 20
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.
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles NTP’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones NTP 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 NTP 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
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 64 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to NTP’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
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- Microsoft Clarity page source: clarity.ms/tag/
- Web servers
- Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=O60kZMoa5mBPIKKqd9FSRXcGUhU6s3rzZHzWN…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=1BTIwQr05WxuBXsED2L-cWc-cC7_8NDYKoWMsmAyR3g
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 14/20
- Google Workspace · not on ntp.org 7/20
- Cloudflare · not on ntp.org 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on ntp.org 5/20
- PHP · not on ntp.org 5/20
- jQuery · not on ntp.org 4/20
- Apache HTTP Server 4/20
- GlobalSign 3/20
- Font Awesome · not on ntp.org 3/20
- nginx · not on ntp.org 3/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on ntp.org 3/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on ntp.org 3/20
- OpenAI · not on ntp.org 3/20
- Fastly · not on ntp.org 2/20
- Google Analytics 2/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on ntp.org 2/20