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Let's Encrypt

Developer Tools — A new Certificate Authority - free, automated, and open
Developer Toolsopen-sourceest. 2015
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 27, 2026
Pulse 49.9 · 2/4
49.9
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
+2.4
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
34
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
10
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 34 observations. Pulse momentum is positive over 30 days (+2.4).

HTTP liveness

real
34 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 27, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 94% of 34 probesavg response 439 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
letsencrypt.org
edge
direct origin
server
Netlify
Tranco rank
#1,157
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Let's Encrypt's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 27, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. Its Pulse Index is 49.9 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 10 functional tags. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 2 linked rivals, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Open source rich push notifications by Countlydev-toolssimilar75%47.20.0● live
Headless Commerce Resourcesecommercetag-overlap70%40.00.0● live
Product Hunt Digest (Unofficial)dev-toolssimilar67%40.00.0● live
CloudGraphdev-toolssimilar67%40.00.0● live
Tektondev-toolssimilar67%44.2+9.6● live
Diggerdev-toolssimilar67%40.00.0● live
Formbricksmarketingtag-overlap64%48.10.0● live
Coolifydev-toolssimilar64%47.60.0● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelopen-source
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternatives2
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-27 18:05Z200letsencrypt.orgNetlify93alive
2026-08-26 09:36Z200letsencrypt.orgNetlify503alive
2026-08-19 13:59Z200letsencrypt.orgNetlify982alive
2026-08-11 00:34Z200letsencrypt.orgNetlify350alive
2026-08-08 06:27Z200letsencrypt.orgNetlify378alive
2026-08-05 18:46Z200letsencrypt.orgNetlify1187alive
2026-07-30 18:01Z200letsencrypt.orgNetlify999alive
2026-07-23 09:21Z200letsencrypt.orgNetlify84alive
2026-07-22 09:24Z200letsencrypt.orgNetlify227alive
2026-07-21 09:25Z200letsencrypt.orgNetlify385alive
2026-07-20 09:52Z200letsencrypt.orgNetlify267alive
2026-07-19 09:04Z512unknown
2026-07-18 08:45Z200letsencrypt.orgNetlify106alive
2026-07-17 09:06Z200letsencrypt.orgNetlify74alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Let's Encrypt · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/let-s-encrypt · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.