ArchiveBox
by ArchiveBox · Self-hosted web archiving in durable, standard file formats
BenchRank score
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Overview
ArchiveBox saves websites, bookmarks, RSS feeds, social posts and media as durable files including HTML, PDF, PNG, WARC, MP4, JSON and SQLite. Each collection lives in one data folder with a SQLite index and per-snapshot folders that can be browsed without the app running. URLs arrive via the CLI, Web UI, REST API, browser extension, bookmark imports or scheduled feed pulls.
- Best for
- Self-hosters, journalists and research teams needing durable copies of web pages on their own hardware
- Pricing
- No prices are shown on the captured pages; the project describes itself as MIT licensed, open source and nonprofit-supported, with a donations link.
- Runs on
- Browser extensionSelf-hosted
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Snapshots kept as ordinary files, with SQLite and JSON metadata
- Saves HTML, PDF, PNG, WARC, article text, media and git clones
- CLI, Web UI, REST API, webhooks and scheduled imports included
- MIT licensed; Docker Compose bundles the archiving dependencies
Trade-offs
- Self-hosted only — you run and maintain the server and storage yourself
- Roughly 1 GB to 50 GB of disk per 1,000 snapshots, depending on media
- Archived pages that execute JavaScript are a stated risk when viewed
- Private URLs, cookies and headers can leak unless access is configured
- Operators carry the legal load: copyright, DMCA and GDPR requests
Pricing
Published plans and prices from ArchiveBox’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
API quality
Public API surface: machine-readable spec, official SDKs, documented auth, errors, rate limits and versioning.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
Openness
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
Maintenance
Release cadence and repository activity. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — it is only measurable for open repositories.
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Where this comes from
The ArchiveBox pages BenchRank reads when it scores the product — its documentation, release notes, status and security pages, and its repository where there is one.
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