Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Internet Archive
The 20 closest digital library alternatives to Internet Archive, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 6 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Internet Archive? The closest matches are Open Library, JSTOR and Project Gutenberg. 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
- 25 ms
01 · Entity
About Internet Archive
Internet Archive archive.org
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
Wikidata: U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive
Summary by Claude
A nonprofit digital library offering free access to digitized books, movies, music, software and archived web pages, including the Wayback Machine for viewing historical snapshots of websites and lending of digitized books.
- Who it’s for
- General public, researchers, historians
- Business model
- Donations and grants
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Internet Archive’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 Internet Archive
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Internet Archive, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Welcome to Open Library | Open Library
Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.
Very close cos 0.935 - 02
Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
Very close cos 0.925 - 03
Free eBooks | Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 75,000 free eBooks. Choose from ebook formats or read online. No fees, no registration, no ads.
Very close cos 0.917 - 04
Home | Library of Congress
The world's largest library. View historic photos, maps, books and more. Contact experts for help with research. Plan a visit. Home of U.S. Copyright Office.
Very close cos 0.916 - 05
Wikisource
online multilingual library that collects open-content source material
Very close cos 0.915 - 06
Wikimedia Error
global social movement for free educational knowledge
Very close cos 0.911 - 07
Request temporarily denied. | Archive of Our Own
nonprofit online fanfiction repository operated by the Organization for Transformative Works
Very close cos 0.905 - 08
Scribd: Home to the world’s documents.
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.
Very close cos 0.903 - 09
Smithsonian request verification
group of museums and research centers administered by the United States government
Very close cos 0.899 - 10
Wikibooks
free multilingual online collection of textbooks
Very close cos 0.900 - 11
OverDrive: Free ebooks, audiobooks & movies from your library.
Thousands of libraries & schools offer free digital content thru OverDrive's suite of products/services. Learn more about Libby, Kanopy, Sora & TeachingBooks.
Very close cos 0.896 - 12
Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
- Google Search Console
- Google Workspace
- Cloudflare
- Cloudflare DNS
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
Very close cos 0.896 - 13
National Archives | Home
National Archives and Records Administration
Very close cos 0.896 - 14
Welcome to The National Archives
Explore 1,000 years of history with the official national archive of the UK Government.
Very close cos 0.894 - 15
OSF
tools that make open science practice easier
Very close cos 0.894 - 16
Wikiquote
free multilingual online collection of quotes
Close cos 0.893 - 17
PBS: Public Broadcasting Service
Watch full episodes of your favorite PBS dramas, find in-depth news analysis and explore documentaries on history, science, art and more!
Close cos 0.890 - 18
Home Page
API endpoint
Close cos 0.889 - 19
Zenodo
research data repository
Close cos 0.890 - 20
Your access has been blocked – The Atlantic
magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C.
Close cos 0.893
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to archive.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Internet Archive uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Internet Archive 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/1.26.3
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX smtp.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms84122558
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=AayvCFYrHZxErANHNVvoXR/RxRkCrZHgMCRDL2l…
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: Q2YSouphkkgHkFNP7FgAkc4TmBs1Gmag3uGNndb53B8
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 mx ip4:207.241.224.6/32 ip4:207.241.224.2/32 include:_spf.goog…
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Internet Archive adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Microsoft 365 10/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on archive.org 6/20
- OpenAI · not on archive.org 6/20
- Atlassian 6/20
- Cloudflare · not on archive.org 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on archive.org 5/20
- Google Workspace 4/20
- DocuSign · not on archive.org 4/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on archive.org 4/20
- Mailgun · not on archive.org 4/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on archive.org 4/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on archive.org 4/20
- nginx 3/20
- GlobalSign · not on archive.org 3/20
- Adobe · not on archive.org 3/20