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
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
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to OWASP
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to OWASP, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Welcome to The Apache Software Foundation | Apache Software Foundation
American nonprofit open-source software community
Very close cos 0.920 - 02
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.
Close cos 0.893 - 03
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 …
Close cos 0.893 - 04
NLnet Labs - Home
Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.
Close cos 0.892 - 05
OSF
tools that make open science practice easier
Close cos 0.881 - 06
Wikimedia Error
global social movement for free educational knowledge
Close cos 0.879 - 07
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.
Close cos 0.875 - 08
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.
Close cos 0.876 - 09
Request temporarily denied. | Archive of Our Own
nonprofit online fanfiction repository operated by the Organization for Transformative Works
Close cos 0.876 - 10
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.
Close cos 0.870 - 11
MariaDB Foundation - MariaDB.org
database management system, relational, open source, community developed fork of MySQL
Close cos 0.869 - 12
Pew Research Center | Nonpartisan, nonadvocacy, public opinion polling and data-driven social science research
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Close cos 0.869 - 13
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.
Close cos 0.865 - 14
Home Page | CISA
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency: America's Cyber Defense Agency
Close cos 0.866 - 15
Council on Foreign Relations
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an independent, nonpartisan member organization, think tank, and publisher.
Close cos 0.866 - 16
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.
Close cos 0.866 - 17
Vercel Security Checkpoint
American software company
Close cos 0.863 - 18
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.
Close cos 0.863 - 19
SPEC - Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation
American non-profit corporation
Close cos 0.862 - 20
US nonprofit funding cardiovascular medical research, educating consumers on healthy living, and fostering cardiac care
Close cos 0.862
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
- 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
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms73859685
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:servers.mcsv.net include:amazo…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS west.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=BhaFKFKoRcW20xvi6UJ3U0CKocKOCgLH6LSuiBY…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=hJ9eCIFoexfh1sb-WVBkVB5PEND3JiaojOVyaNpyWK8
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what OWASP adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- jQuery · not on owasp.org 7/20
- Google Workspace 7/20
- Atlassian 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS 6/20
- nginx · not on owasp.org 6/20
- PHP · not on owasp.org 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on owasp.org 5/20
- Cloudflare · not on owasp.org 5/20
- Microsoft 365 5/20
- Apple Business · not on owasp.org 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on owasp.org 4/20
- Mailchimp 4/20
- OpenAI · not on owasp.org 4/20
- Adobe · not on owasp.org 4/20
- Fastly · not on owasp.org 3/20