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ArchiveBox

Your personal Wayback Machine

provisional — pending verificationMITself-hostable

Arete score

4.3 / 5

Autonomy5

Return4

Efficiency3

Transparency5

ἀρετή “AH-reh-tay” — excellence: a thing being good at what it’s for. Mean of the four principle scores. How we score →

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~ Provisional — seeded estimate by a human researcher; full rubric pass pending.

Why it's listed

ArchiveBox is listed in bookmarks & web archiving because it competes on utility: your personal wayback machine. It's built by an independent, bootstrapped team — no growth-at-all-costs pressure, no ad-tax passed to you. Licensed MIT; pricing: free. Its resource footprint is reasonable for what it does, though not featherweight. This entry is provisional — the scores are seeded estimates pending our full manual rubric pass, and the verification date will appear here once complete.

Facts

License: MIT
Pricing: Free
Funding model: Indie OSS
Self-hostable: Yes — deploy difficulty: medium
Replaces: the Wayback Machine (personal)
Verification: Provisional — scores are seeded estimates pending manual verification

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