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Packagist
Who runs Packagist, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest software package registry alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- NuGet
Measured from Packagist’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Packagist01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Packagist
Packagist packagist.org
The PHP Package Repository
Wikidata: The main Composer repository, aggregating public PHP packages installable with Composer
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
02 · Privacy
What Packagist 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 18 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 Packagist’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Packagist
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Packagist, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to Packagist match.
- 01
NuGet Gallery | Home
The NuGet Gallery is the central package repository for NuGet, the package manager for .NET.
Very close - 02
RubyGems.org | your community gem host
package manager for Ruby
Very close - 03
Composer
A Dependency Manager for PHP
Very close - 04
crates.io: Rust Package Registry
crates.io serves as a central registry for sharing crates, which are packages or libraries written in Rust that you can use to enhance your projects
Very close - 05
The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network - www.cpan.org
Perl package repository
Very close - 06
Search the CPAN - metacpan.org
open source search engine for the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN)
Very close - 07
JSR: the JavaScript Registry
JSR is the open-source package registry for modern JavaScript. JSR natively supports TypeScript, and works with all JS runtimes and package managers.
Very close - 08
MyBB - Free and Open Source Forum Software
The official homepage for MyBB, a free and open source PHP forum software.
Very close - 09
Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
Very close - 10
Bundler: The best way to manage a Ruby application's gems
Close - 11
Suhosin PHP hardening project
Open source patch for PHP
Very close - 12
Compare B2B Software, Download, & Develop Open Source & Business Software - SourceForge
SourceForge is the complete software discovery platform. SourceForge is the largest B2B software review and comparison site in the world, and features the largest business software directory, as well as free & fast open source software downloads and development.
Very close - 13
Welcome to CodeIgniter
The small framework with powerful features
Very close - 14
MediaWiki
free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation
Very close - 15
Symfony, High Performance PHP Framework for Web Development
Symfony is a web framework and a set of reusable PHP packages to build web applications, APIs, microservices and CLI apps.
Very close - 16
Launchpad
software forge
Very close - 17
Enterprise PHP Development Platform | Expert PHP Support | Zend
Zend is a trusted source for PHP development platforms, including secure runtimes, PHP monitoring tools & full PHP support for developers worldwide.
Very close - 18
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.
Very close - 19
CakePHP - Build fast, grow solid | PHP Framework | Home
CakePHP is an open-source web, rapid development framework that makes building web applications simpler, faster and require less code. It follows the model–view–controller (MVC) . Manual for beginners now available and links towards the last version.
Very close - 20
Laravel - The clean stack for Artisans and agents
Laravel is a framework for building modern web apps and AI agents. Expressive syntax, built-in tools, and everything you need to ship fast.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Packagist’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Packagist 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 Packagist 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 · 5 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,208
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 35 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Packagist’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
- bunny.net header server: BunnyCDN-DE1-1055
- Site search
- Algolia page source: .algolia.com
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX smtp.google.com
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 a mx include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com -all
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=u1ogg4eabdx_nFHnTHC0s4KfKUkSzaME6FIbDj9NU1Y
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 15/20
- Google Workspace 10/20
- Fastly · not on packagist.org 8/20
- Cloudflare · not on packagist.org 8/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on packagist.org 8/20
- GlobalSign · not on packagist.org 6/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on packagist.org 4/20
- Google Fonts · not on packagist.org 4/20
- Amazon SES 4/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on packagist.org 3/20
- Mailchimp · not on packagist.org 3/20
- jQuery · not on packagist.org 3/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on packagist.org 3/20
- nginx · not on packagist.org 2/20
- Google Analytics · not on packagist.org 2/20
- Atlassian · not on packagist.org 2/20