Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Creative Commons
The 20 closest open content licensing alternatives to Creative Commons, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 8 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Creative Commons? The closest matches are United States Copyright Office, doxygen.org and Wikimedia movement. 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 Creative Commons
Creative Commons creativecommons.org
Building tools for shared knowledge - Creative Commons
Wikidata: family of public copyright licenses for allowing free use of a work
Summary by Claude
Creative Commons is a nonprofit that publishes free, standardized copyright licenses and public domain tools (such as CC0) that let creators grant the public permission to share and reuse their work, along with licensing guidance and open-knowledge policy advocacy.
- Who it’s for
- Creators, educators, institutions, open knowledge projects
- Business model
- Donations and grants
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Creative Commons’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 Creative Commons
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Creative Commons, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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U.S. Copyright Office | U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright Office Homepage
Very close cos 0.902 - 02
Doxygen homepage
Source code documentation and analysis tool
Very close cos 0.899 - 03
Wikimedia Error
global social movement for free educational knowledge
Very close cos 0.897 - 04
Client Challenge
non-profit educational organization
Close cos 0.891 - 05
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.
Close cos 0.889 - 06
Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
- Cloudflare
- Cloudflare DNS
- Google Workspace
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
- Google Search Console
- Google Tag Manager
Close cos 0.890 - 07
Envato® | AI Tools and Unlimited Creative Assets
Create and customize content with AI tools and unlimited creative assets for professional and commercial use.
Close cos 0.891 - 08
OSF
tools that make open science practice easier
Close cos 0.889 - 09
Free K–12 Curriculum for Digital Fluency | CodeAI
Bring computer science and AI education to your classroom with CodeAI’s free K–12 curriculum, hands-on projects, and teacher professional development—no prior experience needed.
Close cos 0.887 - 10
Zenodo
research data repository
Close cos 0.886 - 11
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.
Close cos 0.887 - 12
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.
Close cos 0.886 - 13
Syncthing
open source continuous file synchronization software
Close cos 0.883 - 14
Wikibooks
free multilingual online collection of textbooks
Close cos 0.885 - 15
Compliance Solutions for Websites, Apps and Organizations | iubenda
iubenda is your 360° compliance solution for global data privacy laws. Privacy policy generator, cookie consent management, ROPA, Terms and more.
Close cos 0.884 - 16
design website
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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。
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Request temporarily denied. | Archive of Our Own
nonprofit online fanfiction repository operated by the Organization for Transformative Works
Close cos 0.882 - 20
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive
Close cos 0.882
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to creativecommons.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Creative Commons uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Creative Commons is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress page source: /wp-content/
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a562f803aab0ffcf-HAM
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms27657674
- Email delivery
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:sendgrid.net ~all
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS fiona.ns.cloudflare.com
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Creative Commons adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on creativecommons.org 17/20
- Google Workspace 11/20
- Microsoft 365 8/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on creativecommons.org 8/20
- Cloudflare DNS 6/20
- Cloudflare 5/20
- Bootstrap · not on creativecommons.org 4/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on creativecommons.org 4/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on creativecommons.org 4/20
- Amazon SES · not on creativecommons.org 3/20
- Font Awesome · not on creativecommons.org 3/20
- Apple Business · not on creativecommons.org 3/20
- OpenAI · not on creativecommons.org 3/20
- Zendesk · not on creativecommons.org 3/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on creativecommons.org 3/20
- Atlassian · not on creativecommons.org 3/20