openlibrary.org
Open Library
Who runs Open Library, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest digital library alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- WorldCat
Measured from Open Library’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Open Library01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Open Library
Open Library openlibrary.org
Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.
Wikidata: online project for book data by the Internet Archive
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Open Library 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.
tracker that follows visitors
13 of the 16 alternatives below have fewer, 2 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Open Library
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Open Library, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
WorldCat.org
WorldCat.org is a global catalog of library materials. You can search for books, music, video, articles and much more at libraries near you.
Very close - 02
Free eBooks | Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 75,000 free eBooks. Choose from ebook formats or read online. No fees, no registration, no ads.
Very close - 03 HathiTrust Digital Library hathitrust.org
digital library
Very close - 04
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive
Very close - 05
Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover
Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. Download free ebooks with professional-quality formatting and typography, in formats compatible with your ereader.
Very close - 06
Wikisource
online multilingual library that collects open-content source material
Very close - 07
social cataloging web application
Very close - 08
Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
Very close - 09
American aggregation platform providing open access to digital collections from libraries, archives, and museums.
Very close - 10
Goodreads | Meet your next favorite book
Find and read more books you’ll love, and keep track of the books you want to read. Be part of the world’s largest community of book lovers on Goodreads.
Very close - 11
Wikibooks
free multilingual online collection of textbooks
Very close - 12
LibriVox | free public domain audiobooks
public domain audiobook project
Very close - 13
Home | LibreTexts
open access educational resource collection
Very close - 14
Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
Very close - 15
Encyclopedia.com | Free Online Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia.com – Online dictionary and encyclopedia with pictures, facts, and videos. Get information and homework help with millions of articles in our FREE, online library.
Very close - 16
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Very close - 17
curated list of peer-reviewed open-access journals
Very close - 18
OpenAlex: The open catalog to the global research system
OpenAlex indexes half a billion scholarly works, with their authors, institutions, sources and topics, and makes them free to search, analyze and reuse through our web app, API and bulk download.
Very close - 19
MusicBrainz - the open music encyclopedia
online music metadata database
Very close - 20
Wikiquote
free multilingual online collection of quotes
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Open Library’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Open Library 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 Open Library 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 · 4 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 49 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Open Library’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
- Analytics
- Matomo page source: _paq.push(
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx/1.30.6
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Bing Webmaster Tools meta msvalidate.01: 8BEBECBEF537077737975A49D55B857D
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: KrqcZD4l5BLNVyjzSi2sjZBiwgmkJ1W7n6w7ThD7A74
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace · not on openlibrary.org 11/20
- Cloudflare · not on openlibrary.org 9/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on openlibrary.org 9/20
- Atlassian · not on openlibrary.org 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on openlibrary.org 3/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on openlibrary.org 3/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on openlibrary.org 3/20
- PHP · not on openlibrary.org 3/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on openlibrary.org 2/20
- React · not on openlibrary.org 2/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on openlibrary.org 2/20
- GlobalSign · not on openlibrary.org 2/20
- Zendesk · not on openlibrary.org 2/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on openlibrary.org 2/20
- jQuery · not on openlibrary.org 2/20