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Common Crawl

Logo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

Nonprofit web crawling and archive organization

The Common Crawl Foundation (Common Crawl) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that crawls the web and freely provides its archives and datasets to the public. Access to the data is free on Amazon Web Services, but users may incur storage and compute costs.2 It was founded by Gil Elbaz.1 Its revenue was $1.3 million in 2023.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

2008Founded1

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The Common Crawl Foundation (Common Crawl) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that crawls the web and freely provides its archives and datasets to the public. Access to the data is free on Amazon Web Services, but users may incur storage and compute costs.2

The story

Founded by Gil Elbaz in 2008.1

Leadership

Who has led Common Crawl, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

Revenue over time

As stated on Wikidata, in the currency reported.

Revenue

Common Crawl revenue by year1$1.3M in 2023+333% since 2011
0$500.0K$1.0M$1.5M2011: $300.0K$300.0K20112012: $242.6K$242.6K2012−19%2013: $370.8K$370.8K2013+53%2014: $391.4K$391.4K2014+6%2015: $250.4K$250.4K2015−36%2019: $160.0K$160.0K2019−36%2020: $75.0K$75.0K2020−53%2021: $330.0K$330.0K2021+340%2022: $451.4K$451.4K2022+37%2023: $1.3M$1.3M2023+187%
  • 2023$1.3M1
  • 2022$451.4K1
  • 2021$330.0K1
  • 2020$75.0K1
  • 2019$160.0K1
  • 2015$250.4K1

Timeline

  1. 2008Founded Founded1

Sources

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