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Who runs Tor Project, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest online anonymity software alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
I2P

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Tor Project

Tor Project torproject.org

Anonymity Online | Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance. Circumvent censorship.

Wikidata: daemon and utilities for an anonymizing network

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Tor Project 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; 5 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found

We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Tor Project’s homepage.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Tor Project

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Tor Project, thumbs down if it isn’t.

No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English
  1. 01
    I2P geti2p.net English No trackers

    I2P - The Invisible Internet Project | EN

    I2P is a fully encrypted private network layer. Protect your online activity from surveillance and censorship with built-in end-to-end encryption.

    Compare I2P with Tor Project →
  2. 02
    Hyphanet freenetproject.org English No trackers

    Hyphanet

    free software

    Compare Hyphanet with Tor Project →
  3. 03
    Psiphon psiphon.ca No trackers

    Psiphon

    Open source, and trusted by millions: a censorship-resistant VPN that works where others fail.

    Compare Psiphon with Tor Project →
  4. 04
    Lantern lantern.io English No trackers

    Lantern VPN: Nonprofit VPN for fast, private, unrestricted internet access

    Nonprofit VPN trusted by 250+ million people. Fast, private internet access that bypasses censorship. Free to start, Pro funds open access in censored regions.

    Compare Lantern with Tor Project →
  5. 05
    Mullvad mullvad.net English No trackers

    Mullvad VPN - Privacy is for the people

    Free the internet from mass surveillance and censorship. Fight for privacy with Mullvad VPN and Mullvad Browser.

    Compare Mullvad with Tor Project →
  6. 06
    Privacy Guides privacyguides.org English No trackers

    Privacy Guides

    Established in 2021, Privacy Guides is the largest impartial, non-profit media outlet focused on finding privacy tools and learning about protecting your digital life.

    Compare Privacy Guides with Tor Project →
  7. 07
    NetBSD netbsd.org English No trackers

    The NetBSD Project

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  8. 08
    ModSecurity modsecurity.org Top 10K English No trackers

    ModSecurity Project – Open-Source Web Application Firewall

    Protect your websites and apps with ModSecurity, the OWASP-backed open-source WAF trusted to stop threats. Upgrade your security today.

    Compare ModSecurity with Tor Project →
  9. 09
    Avaaz avaaz.org English 2 trackers

    Avaaz - The World in Action

    Avaaz is the campaigning community bringing people-powered politics to decision making worldwide.

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  10. 10
    Privacy Badger privacybadger.org English No trackers

    Privacy Badger | Fight hidden tracking with EFF

    open source privacy-enhancing web browser extension

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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
    NTPsec ntpsec.org English No trackers

    Welcome to NTPsec

    implementation of Network Time Protocol

    Compare NTPsec with Tor Project →
  13. 13
    DuckDuckGo duckduckgo.com Top 1K English No trackers

    DuckDuckGo - Protection. Privacy. Peace of mind.

    The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.

    Compare DuckDuckGo with Tor Project →
  14. 14
    OSF osf.io Top 10K English 1 tracker

    OSF

    tools that make open science practice easier

    Compare OSF with Tor Project →
  15. 15
    NLnet Labs nlnetlabs.nl Top 10K English No trackers

    NLnet Labs - Home

    Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.

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  16. 16
    MariaDB mariadb.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    MariaDB Foundation - MariaDB.org

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

    Compare MariaDB with Tor Project →
  17. 17
    Codeberg e.V. codeberg.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Codeberg.org

    Codeberg is a non-profit community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.

    Compare Codeberg e.V. with Tor Project →
  18. 18
    openPetition openpetition.de English 1 tracker

    Start online petitions and reach people - openPetition

    A free platform to start petitions, collect signatures, run campaigns, and effect change. Over 17 million people are involved with openPetition .

    Compare openPetition with Tor Project →
  19. 19
    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.

    Compare ICANN with Tor Project →
  20. 20
    Brave brave.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    The browser that puts you first | Brave

    The Brave browser is a fast, private and secure web browser for PC, Mac and mobile. Download now to enjoy a faster ad-free browsing experience that saves data and battery life by blocking tracking software.

    Compare Brave with Tor Project →

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04 · History

What changed

Price and policy history →

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Tor Project 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 · 5 technologies
Neighbours
k = 20
Sites searched
9,192
Vector
384-d
Query
55 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Tor Project’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.

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