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.

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01 · 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.
- Matomo

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Open Library

Fewer trackers than Open Library No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan Only in English

None of the 60 sites closest to Open Library 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 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 and search numbers · 4 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,209
Vector: 384-d
Query: 35 ms

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.