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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®

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01 · 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.

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Cookie banner
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We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on PCRE’s homepage.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to PCRE

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1 of the 60 sites closest to PCRE matches.

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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

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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.

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Sites searched
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Vector
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Query
58 ms

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