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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
None of the 60 sites closest to PCRE 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 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 and search numbers · 1 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 35 ms
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