CachedView Alternatives to See Cached and Old Web Pages

CachedView still loads, but the Google Cache it was named after is gone. Google Search Liaison Danny Sullivan confirmed on February 1, 2024 that the Cached link had been removed from results. The cache: operator followed around September 24, 2024. The site now says it uses the Wayback Machine as its primary source. The Dutch site cachedview.nl checks the Wayback Machine, archive.today, the Library of Congress and Perma.cc in one go, and can take a live screenshot.

Bing removed its own cache links in December 2024, so no major search engine shows a stored copy anymore. Old versions now live in public archives, or in copies you save yourself. The first four picks below find a copy that already exists. The last four make sure you have one next time.

For neighbouring jobs, see our guides to searching many archives at once, other large web archives, downloading a whole site and Wayback Machine alternatives.

Prices below are as of November 6, 2026. Our method is on How we review tools.

Quick comparison

Wayback Machine

The Internet Archive passed one trillion archived pages in October 2025 and has been saving the web since 1996. Paste a URL into web.archive.org and you get a calendar of every capture. Google points people here too: since September 11, 2024, the More about this page panel in results can link to the Wayback copy, unless the site owner opted out.

When no copy exists, Save Page Now stores that one page, images and CSS included, but not the pages it links to. The official extension for Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari 14 checks for an archived copy on its own when a page returns a 4xx or 5xx error.

Best for: Anyone who needs an older version of a public page and wants to start with the largest archive.

Pricing:

• Free to browse, with no ads, funded by donations.
• Save Page Now from the extension needs a free login.

Watch out for:

• Gaps are growing. Fortune reported in April 2026 that 241 sites, 23 of them news organizations including The New York Times and USA Today, deny the archive's crawler.
• Reddit limited the crawler to its homepage in August 2025, so recent threads, comments and profiles are not being saved.

Official site: Wayback Machine. Our listing: Wayback Machine.

archive.today

Each capture on archive.today (also reachable as archive.ph, archive.is and other mirrors) is two files: a working copy with live links and a screenshot. It ignores robots.txt, so it often holds pages the Wayback Machine never got. Type a URL into the second search box to list earlier snapshots. The Bellingcat toolkit notes it accepts insite:, quotes and the * wildcard.

Captures are taken at a 1,024 pixel browser width, with CSS turned into inline styles and JavaScript output frozen in place. Pages over 50 MB are rejected, and PDFs, audio and most video do not capture natively.

Best for: A second lookup when the Wayback Machine has no copy of a page.

Pricing:

• Free. No account. The site has no paid features and is privately funded with a donation portal.

Watch out for:

• English Wikipedia banned its links on February 20, 2026, removing about 695,000 of them, after the site's CAPTCHA page was used in a DDoS attack on a blogger and editors found evidence of altered captures. Do not treat a capture here as your only evidence.
• Access is patchy by country. Russia blocked the site and several mirrors on March 23, 2026, and visitors from Finland get an unpassable CAPTCHA.

Official site: archive.today.

Ghostarchive

A smaller, free archiver that bills itself as a place to archive a webpage for scholarly or research purposes. Its search box takes URL patterns: *.github.io/ returns snapshots from every github.io subdomain, which is handy when you only remember part of an address.

AlternativeTo lists Facebook posts among what it can save, and users on the Lost Media Wiki forum use it to keep YouTube videos, calling it fast. It has no ads and no sign-up.

Best for: A third place to check after the two big archives, or a quick save of a social post.

Pricing:

• Free. The site lists no plans or prices.

Watch out for:

• The operator is not named, the only contact is an external feedback form, and there is no browser extension.
• Some YouTube saves hang on the Archiving in progress screen, according to the Lost Media Wiki thread.

Official site: Ghostarchive.

Google Search Console URL Inspection

On your own site, Google still shows you what it stored. In Search Console, open URL Inspection and choose View crawled page to see the raw HTML, HTTP headers, console output and loaded resources from the most recently indexed version. That is the closest thing left to the old cache view for a site you run.

A screenshot only comes with Test live URL, which fetches the page as it is right now. Bing offers the same check: when it dropped cache links, Microsoft pointed site owners to URL Inspection in Bing Webmaster Tools.

Best for: Site owners and SEOs checking what Google last indexed on a page they control.

Pricing:

• Free.

Watch out for:

• Works only for URLs in a property you have verified. For other sites, Google's docs send you to the Rich Results Test instead.
• It shows only the latest indexed copy, with no history, and each property has daily limits on inspections and live tests.

Official site: Google Search Console URL Inspection.

Perma.cc

Run by the Harvard Library Innovation Lab since September 2013, Perma.cc makes a permanent, unalterable record of a page and hands you a short link to cite. Scholars, journals and courts are the audience, so the copy is built to hold up as a reference years later.

Academic libraries and courts can become registrars for free. That means many students, researchers and clerks already have an account through their institution and pay nothing.

Best for: Freezing a page you need to cite before it changes or disappears.

Pricing:

• Monthly plans for unaffiliated individuals: 10 links for $10/month, 100 links for $25/month, 500 links for $100/month.
• One-time packs: 10 links for $15, 100 for $30, 500 for $125.
• Free through an affiliated library or court.

Watch out for:

• It cannot find someone else's old copy. Perma.cc keeps archives away from search engines, and site owners can ask for theirs to be hidden.
• Unused monthly links do not carry over to the next billing period.

Official site: Perma.cc. Our listing: Perma.cc.

ArchiveBox

Feed ArchiveBox a URL, a bookmarks export or an RSS feed and it saves each page several ways on hardware you control: SingleFile HTML, a wget clone with WARC, PDF, PNG screenshot, extracted article text and any audio or video. It can also submit the URL to archive.org at the same time.

The project is MIT licensed with 28.9k GitHub stars. Docker Compose is the recommended install, with uv, pip, apt and Homebrew as other routes. The current line is v0.9, which gets frequent point releases.

Best for: People who want their own searchable archive of the pages they care about, without trusting a third party to keep it.

Pricing:

• Free and open source under the MIT licence. You pay only for your own server and storage.

Watch out for:

• The README marks the REST API as alpha and the Python API as beta, so automations may break between releases.
• The Windows and Linux desktop app needs Docker Desktop installed first.

Official site: ArchiveBox. Our listing: ArchiveBox.

Visualping

Instead of hunting for an old copy after the fact, Visualping watches a page and sends a highlighted before-and-after screenshot each time it changes. The alerts pile up into a dated record of what a competitor's pricing page or a policy page said last month.

You can start a watch from the browser extension in one click. The free plan covers 5 pages and 150 checks a month, with checks at most every 60 minutes.

Best for: Keeping a visual history of a few pages that change often, such as pricing, terms or job listings.

Pricing:

• Free: 5 pages, 150 checks/month, hourly checks, 1 user.
• Personal 1K: $14/month, or $120/year billed annually; 10 pages, 1,000 checks, every 15 minutes.
• Personal 5K: $35/month, or $300/year; 20 pages, 5,000 checks.
• Business plans from $140/month, or $1,200/year, with 5 users.

Watch out for:

• Change history is kept for three months by default. Only Business accounts can extend it to a year.
• The free plan leaves out SMS, Slack, Microsoft Teams and Google Sheets alerts.

Official site: Visualping. Our listing: Visualping.

Stillio

Stillio takes screenshots of chosen pages on a schedule, stamps each with date, time and URL, and can push them to Google Drive or Dropbox, or through Zapier and Make. It is aimed at legal and compliance teams who need proof of what a page showed on a given day.

Its own site admits rank trackers are better for pure position charts, so it fits evidence work more than SEO tracking. On the three lower plans, captures run daily, weekly or monthly; only Top Shot goes down to every 5 minutes.

Best for: Teams that need a timestamped visual archive of their own or a competitor's pages for compliance or disputes.

Pricing:

• Snap Shot: $29/month, up to 5 pages.
• Hot Shot: $79/month, up to 25 pages.
• Big Shot: $199/month, up to 100 pages.
• Top Shot: from $299/month, unlimited pages, 6,000 screenshots/month, $0.05 per extra screenshot.
• 14-day free trial with no card; 10% off for .edu and non-profits.

Watch out for:

• There is no free plan, and the pricing page lists monthly prices only.
• Screenshots are kept for 36 months only while your subscription is active.

Official site: Stillio. Our listing: Stillio.

How to choose

When to stay with CachedView

Keep cachedview.nl if you like typing a URL once and seeing the Wayback Machine, archive.today, the Library of Congress and Perma.cc side by side, with a live screenshot next to them. cachedview.com is now a front end for the Wayback Machine, so it adds little over web.archive.org itself. Neither can bring back a Google cached copy, because Google no longer keeps one to show.

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