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Python

Who runs Python, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest programming language alternatives.

Who’s behind it
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Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
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Last price change
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Closest alternative
PHP

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01 · 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.

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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.

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  1. 01
    PHP php.net Top 1K English 1 tracker

    PHP

    PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

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  2. 02
    Perl perl.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    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.

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  3. 03
    Go go.dev Top 10K English 1 tracker

    The Go Programming Language

    Go is an open source programming language that makes it simple to build secure, scalable systems.

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  4. 04
    Swift swift.org English No trackers

    Swift Programming Language

    Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.

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  5. 05
    Raku® raku.org English No trackers

    Raku®

    The Raku® programming language.

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  6. 06
    rust-lang.org English 1 tracker

    Rust Programming Language

    A language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

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  7. 07
    GNU gnu.org Top 1K English No trackers

    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.

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  8. 08
    MariaDB mariadb.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    MariaDB Foundation - MariaDB.org

    database management system, relational, open source, community developed fork of MySQL

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  9. 09
    Joomla joomla.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    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.

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  10. 10
    Node.js nodejs.org Top 10K English No trackers

    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.

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  11. 11
    FreeBSD freebsd.org Top 10K English No trackers

    The FreeBSD Project

    free Unix-like operating system

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  12. 12
    TYPO3 typo3.org English 1 tracker

    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.

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  13. 13
    Java java.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Java | Oracle

    Get started with Java today

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  14. 14
    Wikimedia wikimedia.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Wikimedia

    The Wikimedia movement is a global community of people, projects, and activities working together to create and share knowledge freely.

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  15. 15
    Apache Software Foundation apache.org Top 1K English 1 tracker

    Welcome to The Apache Software Foundation | Apache Software Foundation

    American nonprofit open-source software community

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  16. 16
    United States House of Representatives house.gov Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Homepage | house.gov

    lower house of the United States Congress

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  17. 17
    Project Jupyter jupyter.org English 1 tracker

    Project Jupyter | Home

    The Jupyter Notebook is a web-based interactive computing platform. The notebook combines live code, equations, narrative text, visualizations, interactive dashboards and other media.

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  18. 18
    Eclipse Foundation eclipse.org Top 10K English 3 trackers

    Eclipse Foundation | Powering Open Innovation

    The Eclipse Foundation hosts 450+ open source projects with vendor-neutral governance, enabling global collaboration in automotive, IoT, cloud, and emerging …

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    ICANN icann.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

    ICANN’s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet.

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  20. 20
    julialang.org English No trackers

    The Julia Programming Language

    Julia is a fast, dynamic, open-source programming language for scientific computing, data science, machine learning and more. Download Julia, learn the language, and explore its packages and community.

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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

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
24 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

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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
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DNS hosting
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