python.org
Python
Who runs Python, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest programming language alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- PHP
Measured from Python’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Python01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Python
Python python.org
The official home of the Python Programming Language
Wikidata: general-purpose programming language
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Python 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; 9 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Python’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Python
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Python, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
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 - 02
The Perl Programming Language - www.perl.org
The Perl Programming Language at Perl.org. Links and other helpful resources for new and experienced Perl programmers.
Very close - 03 Very close
- 04
The Programming Language Lua
Official website of the Lua language
Very close - 05
The Go Programming Language
Go is an open source programming language that makes it simple to build secure, scalable systems.
Very close - 06
Swift Programming Language
Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.
Very close - 07
Raku®
The Raku® programming language.
Very close - 08
Rust Programming Language
A language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
Very close - 09 Very close
- 10
The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement
Since 1983, developing the free Unix style operating system GNU, so that computer users can have the freedom to share and improve the software they use.
Very close - 11
MariaDB Foundation - MariaDB.org
database management system, relational, open source, community developed fork of MySQL
Very close - 12
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 - 13 Very close
- 14
Node.js — Run JavaScript Everywhere
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
Close - 15
The FreeBSD Project
free Unix-like operating system
Very close - 16
TYPO3 Project and Governance — Democratic Open Source - TYPO3 Project
The TYPO3 project is a volunteer community backed by a not-for-profit member association, and a fully-owned service company.
Very close - 17
Java | Oracle
Get started with Java today
Very close - 18
Wikimedia
The Wikimedia movement is a global community of people, projects, and activities working together to create and share knowledge freely.
Very close - 19
Welcome to The Apache Software Foundation | Apache Software Foundation
American nonprofit open-source software community
Very close - 20
Homepage | house.gov
lower house of the United States Congress
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Python’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Python 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 Python 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 · 10 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 82 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Python’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
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.2/jquery.min.js
- CSS & UI
- Font Awesome asset https://www.python.org/static/stylesheets/font-awesome.bf0c425cdb73.css
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-iad-kcgs7200031-IAD, cache-iad-kcgs7200031-IAD, cache…
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace TXT v=spf1 mx ip4:188.166.95.178/32 ip6:2a03:b0c0:2:d0::71:1 include:stsp…
- Email delivery
- Mailgun TXT v=spf1 mx ip4:188.166.95.178/32 ip6:2a03:b0c0:2:d0::71:1 include:stsp…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-2046.awsdns-63.co.uk
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=B57sRQpmte4G4w-gavZbVNmmNsMxGp5kcL19U…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=w3b8mU3wU6cZ8uSrj3E_5f1frPejJskDpSp_nMWJ99o
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-VgeNijVDgW7g56UZyGIVyKNr
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 14/20
- Google Workspace 8/20
- jQuery 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on python.org 6/20
- Cloudflare · not on python.org 5/20
- PHP · not on python.org 5/20
- Fastly 4/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on python.org 4/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on python.org 4/20
- Font Awesome 3/20
- Google Fonts · not on python.org 3/20
- nginx 3/20
- Amazon Route 53 3/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on python.org 3/20
- Matomo · not on python.org 2/20
- Bootstrap · not on python.org 2/20