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I have used Alexa Top Sites but have never paid for it. There is already a free csv you can download daily that contains the top million sites. For more granular lists, Builtwith often satisfies my needs.

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Lots of questions about this. Some say it is old, stale data. I don't believe it is current. They charge 25 cents per 1,000 queries in AWS. Why give that away for free?

See thread here: https://gist.github.com/chilts/7229605

It is good enough for my needs even if its stale. I just want the top 100k sites and dont care about trends, and precise rank. I can see how someone else would want to pay for it though.

I maintain they bought that service just for the name (and toolbar installs).

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