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PyPI
Who runs PyPI, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest software package repository alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- NuGet
Measured from PyPI’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit PyPI01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs PyPI
PyPI pypi.org
The Python Package Index (PyPI) is a repository of software for the Python programming language.
Wikidata: package list of Python modules
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What PyPI 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 19 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 PyPI’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to PyPI
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to PyPI, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to PyPI 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
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 - 04
The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network - www.cpan.org
Perl package repository
Very close - 05
Search the CPAN - metacpan.org
open source search engine for the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN)
Close - 06
Composer
A Dependency Manager for PHP
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.
Close - 08
R: The R Project for Statistical Computing
programming language for statistical analysis
Close - 09
Bundler: The best way to manage a Ruby application's gems
Close - 10
The Linux Kernel Archives
Unix-like operating system kernel, basis for all Linux operating systems
Very close - 11
Launchpad
software forge
Very close - 12
The NetBSD Project
Very close - 13
Welcome to Python.org
The official home of the Python Programming Language
Very close - 14
OSF
tools that make open science practice easier
Very close - 15
The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines | Django
The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.
Very close - 16
Home page | Yarn
Yarn, the modern JavaScript package manager
Close - 17
Getting Started - MSYS2
Software Distribution and Building Platform for Windows
Very close - 18
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 - 19
Zenodo
research data repository
Close - 20
GitLab - Speed with control for agentic software engineering
Teams and agents ship trusted software faster with GitLab, the intelligent orchestration platform with context and governance for the entire software lifecycle.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles PyPI’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones PyPI 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 PyPI 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 · 6 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,214
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 34 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to PyPI’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
- CSS & UI
- Font Awesome asset https://pypi.org/static/css/fontawesome.94176253.css
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-iad-khef600035-IAD, cache-iad-khef600051-IAD, cache-b…
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com include:helpscou…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1702.awsdns-20.co.uk
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=YdrllWIiutXFzqhEamHP4HgCoh88dTFzb2A6QFljooc
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 15/20
- Fastly 8/20
- Google Workspace 8/20
- GlobalSign · not on pypi.org 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on pypi.org 6/20
- Cloudflare · not on pypi.org 5/20
- nginx · not on pypi.org 5/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on pypi.org 4/20
- Amazon Route 53 4/20
- Mailgun · not on pypi.org 3/20
- Mailchimp · not on pypi.org 3/20
- Amazon SES 2/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on pypi.org 2/20
- Google Analytics · not on pypi.org 2/20
- GitHub Pages · not on pypi.org 2/20
- OpenAI · not on pypi.org 2/20