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.
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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
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.
We can’t read archiveofourown.org’s homepage (HTTP 418), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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Index -- Fur Affinity [dot] net
Fur Affinity | For all things fluff, scaled, and feathered!
Very close cos 0.922 - 02
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 - 03
OSF
tools that make open science practice easier
Very close cos 0.907 - 04
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 - 05
Wikimedia Error
global social movement for free educational knowledge
Very close cos 0.905 - 06
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 - 07
Zenodo
research data repository
Very close cos 0.896 - 08
Wikibooks
free multilingual online collection of textbooks
Very close cos 0.897 - 09
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 - 10
Welcome to The National Archives
Explore 1,000 years of history with the official national archive of the UK Government.
Close cos 0.891 - 11
online wiki listing and analyzing conventions (tropes) found in fictional works
Close cos 0.890 - 12
Wikisource
online multilingual library that collects open-content source material
Close cos 0.892 - 13
arXiv.org e-Print archive
online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers
Close cos 0.890 - 14
Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
- Cloudflare
- Cloudflare DNS
- Google Search Console
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
- Google Workspace
Close cos 0.891 - 15
Wikiquote
free multilingual online collection of quotes
Close cos 0.890 - 16
Amnesty International
We are a global movement of more than 10 million people in over 150 countries who campaign campaign for a world where human rights are enjoyed by all.
Close cos 0.889 - 17
The Linux Kernel Archives
Unix-like operating system kernel, basis for all Linux operating systems
Close cos 0.889 - 18
Client Challenge
American hosting service, owned by Scribd, for professional content including presentations, infographics, documents, and videos
Close cos 0.889 - 19
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.
Close cos 0.888 - 20
MariaDB Foundation - MariaDB.org
database management system, relational, open source, community developed fork of MySQL
Close cos 0.886
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.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace · not on archiveofourown.org 13/20
- Cloudflare DNS 6/20
- nginx · not on archiveofourown.org 6/20
- Cloudflare 5/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on archiveofourown.org 5/20
- Google Analytics · not on archiveofourown.org 4/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on archiveofourown.org 4/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on archiveofourown.org 4/20
- SendGrid · not on archiveofourown.org 3/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on archiveofourown.org 3/20
- Mailchimp · not on archiveofourown.org 3/20
- Atlassian · not on archiveofourown.org 3/20
- Google Fonts · not on archiveofourown.org 2/20
- Bing Webmaster Tools · not on archiveofourown.org 2/20
- Matomo · not on archiveofourown.org 2/20