Alternatives and competitors
Sites like 7-Zip
The 20 closest file compression software alternatives to 7-Zip, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 2 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to 7-Zip? The closest matches are zlib, ImageMagick and GZIP. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 16 ms
01 · Entity
About 7-Zip
7-Zip 7-zip.org
7-Zip
Wikidata: open-source file archiver and extractor
Summary by Claude
Free, open-source file archiver for Windows that compresses and extracts files in 7z, ZIP and many other archive formats, with AES-256 encryption and a command-line version.
- Who it’s for
- Windows users and IT professionals
- Business model
- Free open-source software (donations)
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to 7-Zip’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). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to 7-Zip
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to 7-Zip, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01 Very close cos 0.904
- 02
ImageMagick | Mastering Digital Image Alchemy
ImageMagick is a powerful open-source software suite for creating, editing, converting, and manipulating images in over 200 formats.
Very close cos 0.899 - 03 Very close cos 0.897
- 04
Syncthing
open source continuous file synchronization software
Close cos 0.889 - 05 Close cos 0.885
- 06
iLovePDF | Online PDF tools for PDF lovers
iLovePDF is an online service to work with PDF files completely free and easy to use. Merge PDF, split PDF, compress PDF, office to PDF, PDF to JPG and more!
Close cos 0.886 - 07
Doxygen homepage
Source code documentation and analysis tool
Close cos 0.883 - 08
arXiv.org e-Print archive
online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers
Close cos 0.883 - 09 archive.is Top 1K
Webpage archive
archive.is allows you to create a copy of a webpage that will always be up even if the original link is down
Close cos 0.879 - 10
Arch Linux
Linux distribution
Close cos 0.881 - 11
The FreeBSD Project
free Unix-like operating system
Close cos 0.880 - 12
Request temporarily denied. | Archive of Our Own
nonprofit online fanfiction repository operated by the Organization for Transformative Works
Close cos 0.881 - 13
Best Password Manager for Business, Enterprise & Personal | Bitwarden | Bitwarden
Bitwarden is the trusted, open source password manager for individuals, teams, and enterprises. Securely store, share, and manage passwords, passkeys, and secrets. Free to start.
Close cos 0.880 - 14
FileZilla - The free FTP solution
FileZilla - The free FTP solution for both client and server. Filezilla is open source software distributed free of charge.
Close cos 0.878 - 15 Close cos 0.877
- 16
Building tools for shared knowledge - Creative Commons
family of public copyright licenses for allowing free use of a work
Close cos 0.877 - 17
bioRxiv.org - the preprint server for Biology
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by openRxiv, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing scientific communication
Close cos 0.878 - 18
OSF
tools that make open science practice easier
Close cos 0.879 - 19
The Linux Kernel Archives
Unix-like operating system kernel, basis for all Linux operating systems
Close cos 0.878 - 20
VLC: Official site - Free multimedia solutions for all OS! - VideoLAN
VLC: Official site - Free multimedia solutions for all OS!
Close cos 0.876
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to 7-zip.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones 7-Zip uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What 7-Zip is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx/1.24.0 (Ubuntu)
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what 7-Zip adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on 7-zip.org 9/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on 7-zip.org 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on 7-zip.org 6/20
- nginx 5/20
- Cloudflare · not on 7-zip.org 5/20
- Google Workspace 5/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on 7-zip.org 4/20
- Bootstrap · not on 7-zip.org 4/20
- Fastly · not on 7-zip.org 3/20
- Google Cloud DNS · not on 7-zip.org 3/20
- jsDelivr · not on 7-zip.org 3/20
- Font Awesome · not on 7-zip.org 3/20
- Google Analytics · not on 7-zip.org 3/20
- GitHub Pages · not on 7-zip.org 2/20
- Google AdSense · not on 7-zip.org 2/20
- Hetzner DNS · not on 7-zip.org 2/20