Wayback Machine Alternatives for Old and Missing Web Pages

The Wayback Machine is the Internet Archive's free record of old web pages, and it still works in November 2026. It passed one trillion saved pages in October 2025. It is less dependable than it used to be. After a breach of 31 million account records on October 9, 2024, the Wayback Machine was offline until October 13. Visitors got a "temporarily offline" notice on November 20, 2025, and outage reports spiked again on August 16, 2026 with no cause given.

Gaps are the other problem. Fortune reported in April 2026 that 241 sites, 23 of them news organizations, block the Archive's crawler, and Nieman Lab counted 382 a month later. Reddit has limited it to the Reddit homepage since August 2025. If you searched for Memento, that service is gone too. Los Alamos National Laboratory announced on August 7, 2025 that Memento Time Travel would close by the end of September, and Wikipedia dates the shutdown to September 5. The Memento protocol it used still runs at the major archives, the Internet Archive included.

The first four picks below hold old copies made by someone else. The next three save copies you make yourself, and Stillio records pages from today forward. For narrower jobs, see our guides to Memento Time Travel alternatives, viewing one cached page, Internet Archive alternatives and UK Web Archive alternatives.

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

Quick comparison

archive.today

Try archive.today first when the Wayback Machine has no copy or will not load. It is a separate, privately funded service reached at archive.ph and other mirrors, so an Internet Archive outage does not affect it. A save keeps the HTML, CSS, images and any text that JavaScript drew on the page, plus a 1024x768 screenshot, according to the Bellingcat toolkit.

It ignores robots.txt and meta-noindex tags and rarely deletes anything outside DMCA or abuse cases. That is why it often holds the news story a publisher kept out of the Wayback Machine. Bellingcat recommends the Archive Page extension for Chrome for one-click saves and lookups, and a second copy elsewhere for anything you may need as evidence.

Best for: Finding or saving a single page the Wayback Machine skipped, in seconds and with no account.

Pricing:

• Free, with no paid features. It is privately funded and asks for donations.

Watch out for:

• The owner is largely anonymous with no institutional backing, and English Wikipedia stopped linking to it in February 2026 after its CAPTCHA page was used in a DDoS attack. Keep it as a backup copy, not your only proof.
• Saves can fail under heavy load or DDoS protection, and PDFs, Office files, audio and most video are not kept.

Official site: archive.today. Our listing: archive.today.

Web Archives

Armin Sebastian's browser extension is the nearest thing left to the Memento button. Right-click a page or use its toolbar icon, and it sends the URL to the archive you choose. The project wiki lists eight sources, among them the Wayback Machine, archive.is, Ghostarchive, Perma.cc and Japan's Megalodon. You can switch sources off and change their order.

Memento itself was on that list until version 7.3.0 dropped it on February 15, 2026. Builds exist for Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Opera, and the code is GPL-3.0 on GitHub. About 68,500 people use it on Firefox and 50,000 on Chrome.

Best for: People who used Memento to check the Wayback Machine and other archives from one place.

Pricing:

• Free on Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Opera.
• $5.99 for Safari on the Mac App Store, macOS 12 or later.

Watch out for:

• Most of the national archives Memento searched are not in it yet. The developer opened issue #127 to add them in February 2026, and it is still open.
• There is no iPhone or iPad version on the App Store listing, only the paid Mac one.

Official site: Web Archives. Our listing: Web Archives.

Ghostarchive

Ghostarchive keeps its own copies, separate from the Internet Archive, and invites you to "archive a webpage for scholarly or research purposes". People use it for pages other archives handle badly. AlternativeTo lists Facebook posts among what it saves, and lost-media hunters use it for YouTube videos.

The search box does more than exact URLs. A plain word matches any archived URL that contains it, and the match is case sensitive. A pattern like *.github.io/ covers a domain and all its subdomains, and https://github.com/* returns everything under that path, per the examples on the home page.

Best for: Looking up saved YouTube videos and social media posts that the Wayback Machine did not play back.

Pricing:

• No prices on the site. AlternativeTo lists it as free, ad-free and without registration.

Watch out for:

• Some video saves sit at "Archiving in progress" and never finish, a Lost Media Wiki forum thread reports.
• The only contact is a feedback form, and there is no browser extension.

Official site: Ghostarchive.

Australian Web Archive

The National Library of Australia moved its web collections into Trove in March 2019 under this name. Its PANDORA collection began in October 1996. The library has harvested the .au domain with the Internet Archive since 2005, and its oldest .au sites from 1996 came from the Internet Archive too. At launch it held close to 700 TB, or more than 10 billion files, the IIPC says.

The big difference from the Wayback Machine is search by words. You can type a phrase rather than a URL, then narrow results to government sites, one domain, a file type or a date range. That helps when you remember what a page said but not where it lived.

Best for: Finding old Australian pages, government ones included, by the words on them.

Pricing:

• Free. The IIPC describes the collection as fully open access.

Watch out for:

• Coverage is Australian only. Sites from the wider Asia Pacific region are left out, and videos, PDFs and Word files are not always captured.
• Many 1990s sites were lost before they could be saved, mostly because platforms changed so often.

Official site: Australian Web Archive.

Perma.cc

Harvard Library Innovation Lab built Perma.cc for one job: freezing a page before it changes, then giving you a short link to cite. Use it for pages you will reference in a paper, a brief or an article, where a Wayback snapshot might never be taken.

Many people already have free access. Current students, faculty and staff pay nothing if their library is a Perma registrar, and state and federal courts are covered down to clerks and reporters of decisions. Law firms, publishers and newsrooms can become registrars on a paid plan that has no listed price.

Best for: Writers, students and legal staff who need a citation link that will still open years from now.

Pricing:

• Monthly: $10 for 10 links, $25 for 100 links, $100 for 500 links.
• One-time bundles: $15 for 10 links, $30 for 100, $125 for 500 links.
• Free through a registrar library or a court.

Watch out for:

• There is no free plan for an individual outside a registrar library or court, per the accounts page.
• Subscriptions bill on the 1st of each month, and links you do not use in a cycle are lost.

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

ArchiveWeb.page

Webrecorder, the team behind Browsertrix, makes ArchiveWeb.page for recording pages while you browse. Start a session, open the pages you want, and they are stored in a private archive you can view offline and export as WARC or WACZ. Anyone you send the file to can replay it in ReplayWeb.page without installing anything.

Recording as you browse catches content that only appears after a scroll or a click, which crawlers often miss. Autopilot scrolls long feeds for you and has scripted behaviors for Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. It runs as a Chrome extension or a desktop app for macOS 10.15+, Windows and Linux.

Best for: Researchers and journalists who need a faithful, replayable copy of pages they had to click through.

Pricing:

• No price listed. Source code is open under AGPL-3.0 on GitHub.

Watch out for:

• The docs warn that Autopilot behaviors "are not always guaranteed to work as expected" and that it does little on short pages.
• It records what you visit, one session at a time. For whole sites the site points you to Browsertrix instead, and the extension needs Chrome or another Chromium browser.

Official site: ArchiveWeb.page.

ArchiveBox

Think of ArchiveBox as a private Wayback Machine for your own list of links. It pulls URLs from browser history, a bookmarks export, RSS, Pocket, Pinboard, Instapaper or Wallabag, and the archivebox schedule command repeats imports on a timer.

Each snapshot is saved several ways, including SingleFile HTML, PDF, a screenshot, WARC and media through yt-dlp. Docker Compose is the recommended install, and there are uv, apt and brew packages plus an Electron app for Windows, Mac and Linux. The MIT-licensed repo has about 28.9k GitHub stars, and its install commands point to the 0.9.0 release candidate line.

Best for: People who want every page they bookmark or read saved on hardware they control.

Pricing:

• Free and open source under the MIT licence. Your only cost is the machine and storage.

Watch out for:

• By default it also submits each URL to archive.org. Turn that off if your list is private.
• Saving pages behind a login means giving it your cookies, and the README points to security caveats in the wiki before you do.

Official site: ArchiveBox. Our listing: ArchiveBox.

Stillio

Stillio fixes the Wayback problem in advance. Add the URLs you care about and it builds a dated screenshot history from that day on, so you never depend on a crawler having visited. Every plan can capture from IP addresses in 30+ countries, which shows how a page looks to visitors in another market.

It stores images, not working pages. That suits proof of what a pricing page or a competitor's homepage showed on a given date. It does not help if you need the HTML or want to copy text, and for that ArchiveBox with a schedule does the job for free.

Best for: Marketing, legal and compliance teams that need a dated visual record of specific pages.

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 a month, then $0.05 each.
• Concierge add-on from $99/month. 14-day trial with no card. Prices exclude VAT in Europe.

Watch out for:

• Screenshots are kept for 36 months and only while the subscription is active.
• Stillio publishes monthly prices only on its pricing page, with no annual rate.

Official site: Stillio. Our listing: Stillio.

How to choose

When to stay with the Wayback Machine

For most lookups the Wayback Machine is still the place to start. No other public archive has a capture calendar this deep, and Save Page Now stores a page along with images and CSS at no cost, since the Archive runs on donations and shows no ads. Reach for the tools above when it is down, when a site blocks its crawler, or when you need a copy you control.

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