Alternatives and competitors

Sites like archive.ph

The 20 closest web archiving alternatives to archive.ph, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 1 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to archive.ph? The closest matches are Archive of Our Own, FanFiction.Net and National Archives and Records Administration. 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.

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01 · Entity

About archive.ph

archive.ph

Wikidata: web-archiving website

Top 1K · #294 1 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026

Summary by Claude

archive.ph (archive.today) is a free web archiving service that saves on-demand snapshots of web pages, storing both a functional copy with live links and a screenshot image.

Who it’s for
Researchers, journalists, and general internet users
Business model
Donations

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to archive.ph’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

SnopesFicbookDaFontpastebin.comWeTransfer7-ZipArch LinuxNational Archives and Records AdministrationFanFiction.NetArchive of Our Own

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to archive.ph

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

We can’t read archive.ph’s homepage (UND_ERR_CONNECT_TIMEOUT), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.

  1. 01
    Archive of Our Own archiveofourown.org Top 10K English

    Request temporarily denied. | Archive of Our Own

    nonprofit online fanfiction repository operated by the Organization for Transformative Works

  2. 02
    FanFiction.Net fanfiction.net Top 10K

    US fanfiction website

  3. 03

    National Archives | Home

    National Archives and Records Administration

  4. 04
    Arch Linux archlinux.org Top 10K English

    Arch Linux

    Linux distribution

  5. 05
    7-Zip 7-zip.org Top 10K

    7-Zip

    open-source file archiver and extractor

  6. 06
    WeTransfer wetransfer.com Top 10K English

    WeTransfer | Skicka stora filer snabbt

    Det enkla, snabba och säkra sättet att skicka filer till hela världen utan ett konto. Dela filer, foton och videor idag helt gratis.

  7. 07
    pastebin.com Top 10K English

    Pastebin.com - #1 paste tool since 2002!

    Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.

  8. 08
    DaFont dafont.com Top 10K German

    DaFont - Schriftarten zum Download

    Ein Archiv kostenlos herunterladbarer Schriftarten. Durchsuchen Sie nach alphabetischer Reihenfolge, Stil, Autor oder Popularität.

  9. 09
    Ficbook ficbook.net Top 10K Russian

    Проверка безопасности | Книга Фанфиков

    Russian language repository for fanfiction, based in Latvia

  10. 10
    Snopes snopes.com Top 10K English

    Snopes.com | The definitive fact-checking site and reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.

    The definitive Internet reference source for researching urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.

  11. 11
    HubPages hubpages.com Top 10K

    user-generated content, revenue-sharing website founded in 2006

  12. 12
    actionverb.com Top 10K English

    Managed File Transfer, SFTP & File Sharing — Files.com

    Files.com moves and manages every file your business depends on — across any cloud and any partner, from one place. It replaces MFT tools, SFTP servers, file servers, and scripts.

  13. 13
    UK National Archives nationalarchives.gov.uk Top 10K English

    Welcome to The National Archives

    Explore 1,000 years of history with the official national archive of the UK Government.

  14. 14
    Flickr flickr.com Top 1K

    American image and video hosting website

  15. 15
    arXiv arxiv.org Top 1K English

    arXiv.org e-Print archive

    online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers

  16. 16
    Cookiedatabase.org cookiedatabase.org Top 1K English

    Cookiedatabase.org

  17. 17
    SlideShare slideshare.net Top 1K English

    Client Challenge

    American hosting service, owned by Scribd, for professional content including presentations, infographics, documents, and videos

  18. 18
    Geneanet geneanet.org Top 10K English

    international genealogy database

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    flic.kr Top 10K English

    Flickr | The best place to be a photographer online.

    The nicest place on the internet is here for you: inspiration, community, creativity, art, passion, and a heaping scoop of weirdness await you. Join for free.

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    4shared 4shared.com Top 10K English

    4shared - free file sharing and storage

    Online file sharing and storage - 15 GB free web space. Easy registration. File upload progressor. Multiple file transfer. Fast download.

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to archive.ph’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones archive.ph uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What archive.ph is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

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