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Who runs SPEC, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest computer performance benchmarking alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- eembc.org
Measured from SPEC’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit SPEC01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs SPEC
SPEC spec.org
Wikidata: American non-profit corporation
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What SPEC 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 16 alternatives below has fewer; 12 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to SPEC
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to SPEC, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium
The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium
Very close - 02
TPC-Homepage
The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) defines Transaction Processing and Database Benchmarks and delivers trusted results to the industry.
Very close - 03
MLCommons - Standardize AI Measurement, Enable Informed Decisions
MLCommons develops and operates industrial-quality AI benchmarks with industry and academia - measuring quality, performance, safety, and cost so the market can make informed AI decisions.
Very close - 04
American professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering
Very close - 05
international learned society for computing
Close - 06
Linux Foundation - Decentralized innovation, built with trust
Helping open technology projects build world class open source software, communities and companies.
Very close - 07
Welcome to SHRM | The Voice of All Things Work
For all things work, turn to SHRM, the world’s largest HR association dedicated to creating better workplaces that work for all.
Very close - 08
American standards development organization
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WorldatWork Home | WorldatWork
WorldatWork is dedicated to elevating employee experiences and driving organizational performance through rewards, offering education, leadership and community.
Close - 10
DataCite – Connecting Research, Advancing Knowledge - DataCite
international not-for-profit organization which aims to improve data citation
Close - 11
Home - Internet2
Internet2 offers a secure high-speed network, cloud solutions, and services to help your organization succeed.
Very close - 12
AAAS Home | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
international non-profit organization promoting science
Very close - 13
CIS Center for Internet Security
CIS is a forward-thinking nonprofit that harnesses the power of a global IT community to safeguard public and private organizations against cyber threats.
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Welcome - ETSI
ETSI provides an open, collaborative environment to develop globally applicable standards for ICT-enabled systems, applications, and services.
Close - 15
Home
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IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is the premier Internet standards body, developing open standards through open processes.
Close - 17 Geekbench geekbench.com
benchmarking software
Very close - 18
Index
computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems
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SINTEF - Applied research, technology and innovation
SINTEF is one of Europe's largest independent research organisations. Every year we carry out several thousand projects for customers large and small.
Close - 20
Welcome to The Apache Software Foundation | Apache Software Foundation
American nonprofit open-source software community
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles SPEC’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones SPEC 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 SPEC 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 · 3 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 26 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to SPEC’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
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:400,400i,700,700i&display=swap
- Web servers
- Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace TXT v=spf1 ip4:38.146.202.0/26 include:_spf.google.com -all
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on spec.org 18/20
- jQuery · not on spec.org 10/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on spec.org 10/20
- Cloudflare · not on spec.org 10/20
- Google Workspace 8/20
- PHP · not on spec.org 8/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on spec.org 8/20
- Apple Business · not on spec.org 6/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on spec.org 6/20
- Google Fonts 5/20
- Google Analytics · not on spec.org 5/20
- WordPress · not on spec.org 5/20
- Atlassian · not on spec.org 5/20
- Zoom · not on spec.org 5/20
- Salesforce · not on spec.org 5/20
- Bootstrap · not on spec.org 4/20