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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
None of the 60 sites closest to Scribd match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.
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
- 9,217
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 36 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