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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.
20 of the 60 sites closest to OpenStax match.
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Home | LibreTexts
open access educational resource collection
Very close - 02
Wikibooks
free multilingual online collection of textbooks
Very close - 03
Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
Very close - 04
Client Challenge
non-profit educational organization
Very close - 05
Wikiversity
online multilingual collaborative project for learning materials
Close - 06
Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
Very close - 07
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 - 08
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 - 09
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 - 10
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.
Close - 11
LibriVox | free public domain audiobooks
public domain audiobook project
Close - 12
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 - 13
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 - 14
Coursera | Online Courses, Certificates, & Degrees
Learn job-ready skills with online courses, Professional Certificates, Specializations, and degrees from Google, Meta, Anthropic, DeepLearning.AI, Stanford, and more. Start learning today.
Very close - 15
University of California, Berkeley: Home
UC Berkeley pushes the boundaries of knowledge, challenges convention and expands opportunity to create the leaders of tomorrow.
Very close - 16
Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
Very close - 17
Home - Syracuse University
Syracuse University, founded in 1870 and comprised of thirteen schools and colleges, is a private research university in the heart of New York State.
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Learn to Code - for Free | Codecademy
Learn the technical skills to get the job you want. Join over 50 million people choosing Codecademy to start a new career (or advance in their current one).
Close - 19
Home | The University of Sheffield
A world-class university – a unique student experience. Sheffield is a research university in the Russell Group with a global reputation for excellence.
Very close - 20
W3Schools Online Web Tutorials
Well organized and easy to understand Web building tutorials with lots of examples of how to use HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, Python, PHP, Bootstrap, Java, XML and more.
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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 = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,213
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 36 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