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OpenStax
Who runs OpenStax, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest open educational resources alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
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- Closest alternative
- LibreTexts
Measured from OpenStax’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit OpenStax01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs OpenStax
OpenStax openstax.org
OpenStax offers free college textbooks for all types of students, making education accessible & affordable for everyone. Browse our list of available subjects!
Wikidata: nonprofit ed-tech initiative based at Rice University
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What OpenStax 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 12 alternatives below has fewer; 5 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on OpenStax’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to OpenStax
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to OpenStax, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Home | LibreTexts
open access educational resource collection
Very close - 02
Wikibooks
free multilingual online collection of textbooks
Very close - 03 CK-12 Foundation ck12.org
california-based non-profitable organization
Very close - 04
Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
Very close - 05
Client Challenge
non-profit educational organization
Very close - 06
British online educational publishing house, producing teaching and educational materials
Very close - 07 FutureLearn futurelearn.com
British digital education platform
Very close - 08
Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
Very close - 09
database of biomedical research
Very close - 10
Stanford University
At Stanford, a spirit of optimism and possibility energizes our mission of discovery and learning. Here you’ll find a place of intellectual expansiveness, wide-ranging perspectives, and freedom to explore new lines of thinking. Alive with ideas and innovation, approaching questions with openness and curiosity, pursuing excellence in all we do – this is Stanford.
Very close - 11
Welcome to Open Library | Open Library
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.
Very close - 12
online study platform for university and high school students
Very close - 13 skillshare.com English
online learning platform
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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 - 15
website providing subscription-based access to a database of scientific and medical research
Very close - 16
Starfall Education: Kids Games, Movies, Books & Music for K-5 and above
At Starfall, children have fun while they learn - specializing in reading, phonics & math - educational games, movies, books, songs, and more for children K-5 and above.
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Find the School that Fits You Best - Niche
Finding the right school shouldn't be hard. From K-12 to college to grad school, we make it easy to discover and connect with the best ones for you.
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online learning platform
Very close - 19 SciELO scielo.org
bibliographic database of open access journals
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LibriVox | free public domain audiobooks
public domain audiobook project
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles OpenStax’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones OpenStax 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 OpenStax 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 · 10 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 302 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to OpenStax’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
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: eVm4nirOf6fXoAXDLFUIyO-ejJTFvdFVWpfxRAKBBXIS7pL6oIPYQQ==
- Hosting
- Amazon Web Services header server: AmazonS3
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms58383868
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com include:spf1.for…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1195.awsdns-21.org
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=IeWskTgDRHjMBD/AeaXlwcXbCXDdoqiNm6hPjtG…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=5P1KHg2sIon0NiYhjrIxuLk_EZtd2bdHOJwMh9DcyFc
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=qehn0rayh30a1mrjbmt6ncx7lf6evi
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com include:spf1.for…
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Google Workspace 15/20
- Cloudflare · not on openstax.org 9/20
- Meta Business Suite 9/20
- Microsoft 365 9/20
- Apple Business · not on openstax.org 7/20
- OpenAI · not on openstax.org 7/20
- Zendesk · not on openstax.org 7/20
- Atlassian 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on openstax.org 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 6/20
- GlobalSign · not on openstax.org 5/20
- SendGrid · not on openstax.org 4/20
- jQuery · not on openstax.org 3/20
- OneTrust · not on openstax.org 3/20
- Stripe · not on openstax.org 3/20