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Scribd
Who runs Scribd, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest digital document library alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- SlideShare
Measured from Scribd’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Scribd01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Scribd
Scribd scribd.com
Get to the source. Specialized knowledge on any topic, and answers you won’t find anywhere else. Home to the world’s documents, 300M+ and counting.
Wikidata: digital library
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Scribd 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.
tracker that follows visitors
5 of the 14 alternatives below have fewer, 4 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Scribd
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Scribd, thumbs down if it isn’t.
1 of the 60 sites closest to Scribd matches.
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Mintlify - The documentation platform for agents
Self-updating documentation for startups, enterprises, and agents.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Scribd’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Scribd 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 Scribd 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 · 20 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,209
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 244 ms
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Payments
- Stripe page source: js.stripe.com/
- CDN
- Web servers
- Envoy header server: envoy
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms82626852
- Proofpoint MX mxb-00957a01.gslb.pphosted.com
- Email delivery
- Mailgun TXT v=spf2.0/mfrom v=spf1 include:_s00992988.autospf.email include:mailgu…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-2000.awsdns-58.co.uk
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=eURIxHjDOv6GMt8T
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=suO/cHhqQzi2PxMPyb8WEZvFWrAq3fuOv1RfohR…
- DocuSign TXT docusign=fd9b486a-4340-4798-abab-26ce168b0f1b
- GlobalSign TXT globalsign-domain-verification=Bo6R5k9s2Zwdk5OoeybGk6L2EHx_oV1TqLgGiM…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=GggGFvM_T09I1X94IiW555WcOjp5NmcZm-GVh406J44
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=svgb7p4y0mkb2o8bjoufff7qvp8f10
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-eOTOMtNqRWMP9Hwl6UWrtzxb
- Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=rE0mmFiijlRHx0MJFMrECYj8tKn4ziruI0Y2Bba6
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_qVwNF9TlQp6oTxlx4v4GaA
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Amazon Route 53 12/20
- Google Workspace · not on scribd.com 11/20
- Zendesk · not on scribd.com 11/20
- Amazon SES · not on scribd.com 9/20
- Meta Business Suite 8/20
- Microsoft 365 8/20
- Apple Business 7/20
- Atlassian 6/20
- Google Tag Manager 6/20
- Cloudflare · not on scribd.com 6/20
- nginx · not on scribd.com 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on scribd.com 5/20
- Fastly 4/20
- DocuSign 4/20
- Miro · not on scribd.com 4/20