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spaCy

Developer Tools — Industrial-strength, open source natural language processing [Tech]
Developer ToolsDefensible · data moat (strong)open-sourceest. 2015
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 28, 2026
Pulse 40.0 · 1/4
40.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
17
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
10
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 17 observations. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
17 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 28, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 100% of 17 probesavg response 1405 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
github.com
edge
direct origin
server
github.com
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

spaCy's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 28, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 10 functional tags. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 1 linked rival, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
PinYinSwiftdev-toolssimilar90%40.00.0● live
Mythos-Claude-Skill-Forgeai-toolstag-overlap83%2.3-4.4— unverified
PyTorchdev-toolssimilar82%49.2-0.4● live
Allen NLPdev-toolssimilar82%18.60.0→ redirected
OpenAI Gymdev-toolssimilar82%8.00.0— unverified
FacebookGraphAPI-Examples (Python)dev-toolssimilar80%40.00.0● live
tokenspeeddev-toolssimilar80%57.4+2.0● live
Historical daily weather for any US ZIP code Python Packagedev-toolssimilar77%● 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 alternatives1
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
2026-08-28 00:33Z200github.comgithub.com1126alive
2026-08-19 14:29Z200github.comgithub.com2252alive
2026-08-11 01:02Z200github.comgithub.com1028alive
2026-08-08 06:59Z200github.comgithub.com1214alive
2026-08-05 19:15Z200github.comgithub.com1911alive
2026-07-30 18:30Z200github.comgithub.com1000alive
2026-07-23 09:57Z200github.comgithub.com1859alive
2026-07-18 09:06Z200github.comgithub.com1151alive
2026-07-11 09:20Z200github.comgithub.com1637alive
2026-07-04 13:14Z200github.comgithub.com1650alive
2026-06-23 14:24Z200github.comgithub.com2187alive
2026-06-21 17:28Z200github.comgithub.com552alive
2026-06-21 17:28Z200github.comgithub.com409alive
2026-06-20 06:51Z200github.comgithub.com1693alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · spaCy · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/spacy · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.