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PCRE
Who runs PCRE, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest open source software library alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Raku®
Measured from PCRE’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit PCRE01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs PCRE
PCRE pcre.org
The PCRE library is a set of functions that implement regular expression pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl 5. PCRE has its own native API as well as a set of wrapper functions that correspond to the POSIX regular expression API.
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What PCRE 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 20 alternatives below has fewer; 4 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on PCRE’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to PCRE
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to PCRE, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to PCRE match.
- 01
Raku®
The Raku® programming language.
Very close - 02
The FreeType Project
The FreeType Project: a free, high-quality and portable Font engine
Close - 03
The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network - www.cpan.org
Perl package repository
Very close - 04
Swift Programming Language
Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.
Very close - 05
LZ4 - Extremely fast compression
Compression algorithm
Close - 06
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 - 07
PHP
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
Very close - 08
GraphicsMagick Image Processing System
GraphicsMagick is a robust collection of tools and libraries to read, write, and manipulate an image in any of the more popular image formats including GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PNG, PDF, and WebP. With GraphicsMagick you can create GIFs dynamically making it suitable for Web applications. You can also resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image and save your completed work in the same or differing image format.
Close - 09
React
React is the library for web and native user interfaces. Build user interfaces out of individual pieces called components written in JavaScript. React is designed to let you seamlessly combine components written by independent people, teams, and organizations.
Close - 10
Svelte • Web development for the rest of us
Web development for the rest of us
Close - 11
Welcome to CodeIgniter
The small framework with powerful features
Close - 12
PostgreSQL: The world's most advanced open source database
The official site for PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database
Close - 13
Skia
2D Graphics Library
Close - 14
libvips
A fast image processing library with low memory needs.
Close - 15
Lit
Simple. Fast. Web Components.
Close - 16
Use JSDoc: Index
Official documentation for JSDoc.
Close - 17
Lodash
A JavaScript utility library delivering consistency, modularity, performance, & extras.
Close - 18
Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
Close - 19
OpenJPEG
reference software of the JPEG 2000 image format
Close - 20
MediaWiki
free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation
Close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles PCRE’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones PCRE 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 PCRE 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 · 1 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,214
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 100 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to PCRE’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
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on pcre.org 12/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on pcre.org 8/20
- Cloudflare · not on pcre.org 6/20
- Fastly · not on pcre.org 4/20
- Font Awesome · not on pcre.org 4/20
- jQuery · not on pcre.org 4/20
- jsDelivr · not on pcre.org 3/20
- Google Analytics · not on pcre.org 3/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on pcre.org 3/20
- nginx 3/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on pcre.org 2/20
- Bootstrap · not on pcre.org 2/20
- GitHub Pages · not on pcre.org 2/20
- Google Workspace · not on pcre.org 2/20
- Algolia · not on pcre.org 2/20
- Vercel · not on pcre.org 2/20