Mirror Web (MirrorWeb) Alternatives for Website Archiving

Mirror Web, written MirrorWeb by the company, is a compliance archiving service for websites, social media and business messages. It is not a mirror site and not a streaming app. On July 28, 2026, MirrorWeb and Red Oak announced an agreement to combine, with the merged company run under the Red Oak name. Today mirrorweb.com redirects to a Red Oak welcome page, and the old MirrorWeb login signs into "Red Oak Supervision (previously MirrorWeb)."

MirrorWeb had two kinds of buyers. Regulated financial firms used it to keep records of their sites, social accounts and chats. Public bodies used it for large web archives; The National Archives awarded MirrorWeb its web archiving contract for the UK Government Web Archive. The picks below cover both groups, plus cheaper tools for capturing your own pages.

This page is about capturing whole sites and message streams for records. For an old copy of a single page, see CachedView alternatives. To search many public archives at once, see Memento Time Travel alternatives. To download a site for offline reading, see HTTrack alternatives.

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

Quick comparison

PageFreezer

PageFreezer is the nearest like-for-like replacement. Its homepage covers website archiving, social accounts on Facebook, X, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn, SMS archiving, and Microsoft Teams chat records. Buyers range from financial services to city governments, schools and police.

Each capture carries a digital signature and metadata and lands on WORM storage. Records can go on legal hold and be exported for court or a regulator. WebPreserver, a browser app, adds evidence collection from third-party pages before they change or vanish, which helps legal teams as much as compliance staff.

Best for: Compliance or records teams that want websites, social accounts and text messages in a single archive.

Pricing:

• Starts at $1,500 per year, per the pricing page
• Final price depends on capture frequency, licences and project scope
• No free trial listed; the page offers a consultation and walkthrough

Watch out for:

• A Capterra review from July 2022 says frequent changes to social platforms' rules can interrupt social media capture.
• The $1,500 figure is a floor. Most of the real quote comes from scope, so price several capture schedules before you sign.

Official site: PageFreezer. Our listing: PageFreezer.

Smarsh

Smarsh suits a broker-dealer, RIA or bank that wants the website archive and every other channel from one supplier. Smarsh lists capture across more than 80 channels, from web and social to IM, mobile, email and voice, with surveillance and eDiscovery on top.

The Web Archive product records whole sites, including dynamic pages, video and third-party links. Admins pick daily, weekly or custom capture per domain or subdomain. You can import an existing web archive, compare any two dates, and export as screenshots or source code. The page cites FINRA 2210 and SEC Rule 206(4)-1.

Best for: US financial firms that need FINRA and SEC website records alongside email, chat and voice capture.

Pricing:

• No public price; the Web Archive page routes buyers to sales
• Web Archive is sold in the Small and Mid-Sized Firms range

Watch out for:

• A December 2024 review on Software Advice says searching through the main hosting site is "difficult and inaccurate at times."
• An October 2020 review on the same page describes a year-long contract that had to be renewed two months before it ended.

Official site: Smarsh.

Global Relay

Messaging is where Global Relay leads. The homepage counts more than 70 connectors and names WhatsApp, SMS, iMessage, Signal, WeChat, Telegram and LINE. A Website Archive product sits beside them, so one vendor holds both the chats and the site.

Its Website Archive Bot crawls only pages your company owns and has marked for archiving. It identifies as GlobalRelayWebArchiveBot/1.0, and your security team can confirm it through a reverse DNS lookup. Sectors listed include finance, legal, healthcare, insurance, energy and government.

Best for: Firms that must archive off-channel chat apps such as WhatsApp and Signal as well as their public website.

Pricing:

• No public price; the site asks you to get in touch
• The 28-day free trial on the homepage is for GRIP Premium, its regulatory intelligence product, not the archive

Watch out for:

• Crawls run on a schedule agreed with Global Relay, and you have to allowlist its IP addresses, which come from support.
• Global Relay does not publish prices for the archive, so budgeting starts with a sales call.

Official site: Global Relay.

Archive-It

Run by the Internet Archive, Archive-It is a paid service for institutions that build their own web collections. Its partners include state archives, university libraries, federal agencies, museums and city governments. Invest in Open Infrastructure counts over 1,300 institutional users in more than 40 countries.

Plans are annual. The support FAQ says your level depends on how much data your target sites produce in a year, going over carries no penalty, and past years stay stored at no extra cost. You can download your WARC files at any time and keep them if you leave.

Best for: Libraries, archives and public bodies that collect other organisations' websites around a theme or domain.

Pricing:

• No public price; annual plans sized by a yearly data budget
• Hosting, software updates and new releases have no extra fees
• Plans can start on the 1st or 15th of any month

Watch out for:

• It shares infrastructure with the Internet Archive. After the October 2024 attacks, the Archive's services update says Archive-It resumed on October 17.
• WARC files you bring from other tools count against your data budget.

Official site: Archive-It.

Browsertrix

Webrecorder's Browsertrix prints its prices, which none of the compliance suites above do. It loads each page in a real browser, so JavaScript content gets captured. Browser profiles let it crawl pages behind a login without giving the crawler your password.

Crawl analysis compares screenshots and extracted text from the archive against the live site, and reviewers can flag key pages. Crawls export as signed WACZ files and play back in ReplayWeb.page. The source is AGPLv3 and can be self-hosted on Kubernetes.

Best for: Archivists and small teams who want browser-grade crawls, quality checks and files they control.

Pricing:

• Starter: $30 per month after a 7-day free trial; 180 execution minutes, 100 GB, 2,000 pages per crawl
• Standard: $60 per month; 360 minutes, 220 GB, 5,000 pages per crawl
• Plus: $120 per month; 720 minutes, 500 GB, 10,000 pages per crawl
• Pro and Enterprise: quote only, billed yearly

Watch out for:

• You can upload existing WACZ files but not WARC files directly.
• Execution minutes cap how long crawls can run each month, and 180 on Starter goes fast on a large or slow site.

Official site: Browsertrix.

Stillio

Stillio does one job. It takes scheduled screenshots of the pages you list and keeps them as a dated record. For a marketing or legal team that only needs proof of how a landing page or rate table looked, that is often enough.

Captures run daily, weekly or monthly, and the Top Shot plan goes down to every 5 minutes with 6,000 screenshots a month included. Screenshots sync to connected apps, one to three depending on plan. Stillio gives .edu and non-profit buyers 10% off.

Best for: Teams that want dated visual proof of a few key pages at a low monthly price.

Pricing:

• Snap Shot: $29 per month for up to 5 pages
• Hot Shot: $79 per month for up to 25 pages
• Big Shot: $199 per month for up to 100 pages
• Top Shot: from $299 per month, unlimited pages, extra screenshots $0.05 each
• 14-day free trial, no card; monthly prices only, VAT extra in Europe

Watch out for:

• The 36-month retention only holds while your subscription is active.
• You get images of pages, not crawled copies, so links, page code and downloads are not preserved.

Official site: Stillio. Our listing: Stillio.

ArchiveBox

For no cost at all, ArchiveBox gives you an MIT-licensed, self-hosted archiver that runs in Docker or directly on Ubuntu and macOS, on both amd64 and arm64. Give it URLs and it saves each one in several formats at once:

• original HTML, a SingleFile copy and a DOM dump
• PNG screenshots and PDFs from headless Chrome
• a wget clone with a WARC file
• audio and video through yt-dlp

Captures sit on your own disk, which matters for internal or sensitive pages. The docs list version 0.9.77, and the recommended install is Docker Compose, with uv as the bare-metal route.

Best for: Technical users who want a private, no-cost archive of pages they choose.

Pricing:

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

Watch out for:

• By default it also submits pages to archive.org. Turn that off before you archive anything private.
• The pip and uv installs pull a release candidate, and the REST API is marked alpha.

Official site: ArchiveBox. Our listing: ArchiveBox.

How to choose

When to stay with Mirror Web

Stay if you are a MirrorWeb client and like the idea of archiving, supervision and ad review from one vendor. Red Oak's welcome page says your sign-in works as before, and its archiving page lists collaboration apps, mobile messaging and generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and Claude among its channels. Before renewal, read the subscription agreement and service levels in the legal center linked from that page.

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