Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Archive of Our Own

The 20 closest fanfiction archive alternatives to Archive of Our Own, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 3 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Archive of Our Own? The closest matches are FanFiction.Net, Ficbook and Fur Affinity. 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: 14 ms

01 · Entity

About Archive of Our Own

Archive of Our Own archiveofourown.org

Request temporarily denied. | Archive of Our Own

Wikidata: nonprofit online fanfiction repository operated by the Organization for Transformative Works

Top 10K · #1,047 English 3 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026

Visit Archive of Our Own

Summary by Claude

A nonprofit, open-source archive where users post, browse and read fanfiction and other fan works, organized by fandom, characters, relationships and content tags.

Who it’s for: Fanfiction writers and readers
Business model: Donations

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Archive of Our Own’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 Archive of Our Own

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Archive of Our Own, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English

We can’t read archiveofourown.org’s homepage (HTTP 418), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.

01
FanFiction.Net fanfiction.net Top 10K

US fanfiction website
Very close cos 0.950
02
Ficbook ficbook.net Top 10K Russian

Проверка безопасности | Книга Фанфиков

Russian language repository for fanfiction, based in Latvia
Very close cos 0.925
03
Fur Affinity furaffinity.net Top 10K English

Index -- Fur Affinity [dot] net

Fur Affinity | For all things fluff, scaled, and feathered!
Very close cos 0.922
04
Open Library openlibrary.org Top 10K English

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 0.911
05
OSF osf.io Top 10K English

OSF

tools that make open science practice easier
Very close cos 0.907
06
Internet Archive archive.org Top 1K English

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive
Very close cos 0.905
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Wikimedia movement wikimedia.org Top 1K English

Wikimedia Error

global social movement for free educational knowledge
Very close cos 0.905
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.
Very close cos 0.903
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DeviantArt deviantart.com Top 1K English

DeviantArt - The Largest Online Art Gallery and Community

DeviantArt is where art and community thrive. Explore over 650 million pieces of art while connecting to fellow artists and art enthusiasts.
Very close cos 0.900
10
Zenodo zenodo.org Top 10K English

Zenodo

research data repository
Very close cos 0.896
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Wikibooks wikibooks.org Top 10K English

Wikibooks

free multilingual online collection of textbooks
- Google Search Console
Very close cos 0.897
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Wowhead wowhead.com Top 10K English

World of Warcraft News and Guides

The largest World of Warcraft (WoW) information site, featuring guides, news, and information on classes, gearing, professions, raids, transmog, and more.
Close cos 0.893
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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.
Close cos 0.891
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tvtropes.org Top 10K English

online wiki listing and analyzing conventions (tropes) found in fictional works
Close cos 0.890
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Wikisource wikisource.org Top 10K English

Wikisource

online multilingual library that collects open-content source material
- Google Search Console
Close cos 0.892
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The Conversation theconversation.com Top 10K

The Conversation: In-depth analysis, research, news and ideas from leading academics and researchers.

Curated by professional editors, The Conversation offers informed commentary and debate on the issues affecting our world. Plus a Plain English guide to the latest developments and discoveries from the university and research sector.
Close cos 0.891
17
arXiv arxiv.org Top 1K English

arXiv.org e-Print archive

online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers
Close cos 0.890
18
Our World in Data ourworldindata.org Top 10K English

Our World in Data

Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
Close cos 0.891
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note note.com Top 1K Japanese

note ――つくる、つながる、とどける。

クリエイターが文章やマンガ、写真、音声を投稿することができ、ユーザーはそのコンテンツを楽しんで応援できるメディアプラットフォームです。だれもが創作を楽しんで続けられるよう、安心できる雰囲気や、多様性を大切にしています。
Close cos 0.891
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Metal Archives metal-archives.com Top 10K

Home - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives

website on heavy metal bands
Close cos 0.889

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

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What Archive of Our Own is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

CDN: Cloudflare header cf-ray: a562fe3cde7ac4bf-HAM
DNS hosting: Cloudflare DNS NS tadeo.ns.cloudflare.com
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=8XHLhpSftMZE52eO6nnlVCaSzY23nWWf9PwDpGepz9E

Stack changes

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Archive of Our Own adds or drops shows up here.

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.