Alternatives and competitors

Sites like OWASP

The 20 closest application security nonprofit alternatives to OWASP, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 10 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to OWASP? The closest matches are Apache Software Foundation, ModSecurity and Eclipse Foundation. 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 OWASP

OWASP owasp.org

OWASP Foundation - The Open Source Foundation for Application Security

OWASP is the nonprofit behind the Top 10, ASVS, ZAP, and hundreds more free application security projects. Explore our tools, standards, local chapters, global events, and news from a community of 250+ chapters worldwide.

Wikidata: computer security organization

Top 10K · #3,161 English 10 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit OWASP

Summary by Claude

Nonprofit foundation that publishes free, open-source application security projects, standards and documentation such as the OWASP Top 10, ASVS, ZAP and Dependency-Track, and runs local chapters and AppSec conferences.

Who it’s for
Software developers and security professionals
Business model
Donations, memberships, corporate sponsorship and conference fees

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to OWASP’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

New RelicArchive of Our OwnLet's EncryptCollege BoardWikimedia movementOSFNLnet LabsEclipse FoundationModSecurityApache Software Foundation

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to OWASP

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

Only in English
  1. 01
    Apache Software Foundation apache.org Top 1K English

    Welcome to The Apache Software Foundation | Apache Software Foundation

    American nonprofit open-source software community

  2. 02
    ModSecurity modsecurity.org Top 10K English

    ModSecurity Project – Open-Source Web Application Firewall

    Protect your websites and apps with ModSecurity, the OWASP-backed open-source WAF trusted to stop threats. Upgrade your security today.

  3. 03
    Eclipse Foundation eclipse.org Top 10K English

    Eclipse Foundation | Powering Open Innovation

    The Eclipse Foundation hosts 450+ open source projects with vendor-neutral governance, enabling global collaboration in automotive, IoT, cloud, and emerging …

  4. 04
    NLnet Labs nlnetlabs.nl Top 10K English

    NLnet Labs - Home

    Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.

  5. 05
    OSF osf.io Top 10K English

    OSF

    tools that make open science practice easier

  6. 06
    Wikimedia movement wikimedia.org Top 1K English

    Wikimedia Error

    global social movement for free educational knowledge

  7. 07
    College Board collegeboard.org Top 10K English

    College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools

    College Board is a non-profit organization that clears a path for all students to own their future through the AP Program, SAT Suite, BigFuture, and more.

  8. 08
    Let's Encrypt letsencrypt.org Top 10K English

    Let's Encrypt

    Let's Encrypt is a free, automated, and open Certificate Authority brought to you by the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). Read all about our work in our Annual Report.

  9. 09
    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

  10. 10
    American Physical Society aps.org Top 10K English

    American Physical Society

    The American Physical Society is a nonprofit membership organization working to advance physics by fostering a vibrant, inclusive, and global community dedicated to science and society.

  11. 11
    MariaDB mariadb.org Top 10K English

    MariaDB Foundation - MariaDB.org

    database management system, relational, open source, community developed fork of MySQL

  12. 12
    Pew Research Center pewresearch.org Top 10K English

    Pew Research Center | Nonpartisan, nonadvocacy, public opinion polling and data-driven social science research

    Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World

  13. 13
    Open Source Initiative opensource.org Top 10K English

    Open Source Initiative – The steward of the Open Source Definition, setting the foundation for the Open Source Software ecosystem.

    The steward of the Open Source Definition, setting the foundation for the Open Source Software ecosystem.

  14. 14
    CISA cisa.gov Top 10K English

    Home Page | CISA

    Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency: America's Cyber Defense Agency

  15. 15
    Council on Foreign Relations cfr.org Top 10K English

    Council on Foreign Relations

    The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an independent, nonpartisan member organization, think tank, and publisher.

  16. 16
    New Relic newrelic.com Top 1K English

    AI-powered Observability

    New Relic is an AI-powered observability platform that correlates your telemetry across your entire stack, so you can isolate the root cause and reduce MTTR.

  17. 17
    HashiCorp hashicorp.com Top 10K English

    Vercel Security Checkpoint

    American software company

  18. 18
    Raspberry Pi Foundation raspberrypi.org Top 10K English

    Teach, learn, and make with the Raspberry Pi Foundation

    We are a charity with the mission to enable young people to realise their full potential through the power of computing and digital technologies.

  19. 19
    SPEC spec.org Top 10K English

    SPEC - Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

    American non-profit corporation

  20. 20
    American Heart Association heart.org Top 10K English

    US nonprofit funding cardiovascular medical research, educating consumers on healthy living, and fostering cardiac care

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

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

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

Built with

JavaScript frameworks
  • Next.js header x-powered-by: Next.js
  • React implied by Next.js (header x-powered-by: Next.js)
Marketing automation
  • Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:servers.mcsv.net include:amazo…
Hosting
  • Vercel header x-vercel-id: fra1::iad1::vcvg7-1793957275747-b2270fb9701c
Email hosting
Email delivery
  • Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:servers.mcsv.net include:amazo…
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=BhaFKFKoRcW20xvi6UJ3U0CKocKOCgLH6LSuiBY…
  • Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=hJ9eCIFoexfh1sb-WVBkVB5PEND3JiaojOVyaNpyWK8

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