See what Archivarix does, how its pay-per-use pricing works, and whether it's the right tool for restoring or downloading a website from the Wayback Machine.
Category
CMS
Pricing
Pay-per-use credit-balance pricing: roughly $0.25 for a Wayback Machine restoration up to 200 files, then about $10 per additional 1,000 files, with live-site downloads billed on a similar tiered file-count basis. No flat monthly subscription tiers are published.
Archivarix is a web-based tool for recovering and downloading websites. Its core use case is Wayback Machine restoration: point it at a domain and it pulls the site's archived snapshots from the Internet Archive, reassembles the pages, fixes broken internal links, optimizes images, and strips ads and trackers so the result can be re-uploaded as a working site. It can also crawl and download a live website directly (with configurable crawl depth, subdomain inclusion, and even Tor/.onion support) rather than pulling from the archive. Once downloaded, sites can be managed through Archivarix's own bundled CMS — described as a single-file, no-install way to edit restored or downloaded content — or exported as static files, WordPress/Joomla-compatible content, or structured JSON/XML/CSV. Additional processing options include HTML/JS/CSS minification, WWW/non-WWW and HTTP/HTTPS normalization, relative-link conversion, regex search-and-replace, and WebP image conversion. The service is aimed at web studios, developers doing site-recovery or migration work, and website owners trying to resurrect a lost or deleted domain.
Key Features
Wayback Machine restoration — Rebuilds a working copy of a website purely from its archived Internet Archive snapshots, useful when the original site and hosting are gone.
Live website downloading — Crawls and downloads an existing live website directly, with configurable crawl depth, subdomain inclusion, and Tor (.onion) site support.
Content optimization — Optimizes downloaded/restored sites with image compression and WebP conversion, HTML/JS/CSS minification, and ad/tracker removal.
Link and URL fixing — Fixes broken internal links, normalizes WWW/non-WWW and HTTP/HTTPS, converts links to relative paths, and rewrites internal references automatically.
Bundled CMS — A single-file, no-install CMS for editing restored or downloaded sites directly after processing.
Flexible export formats — Exports content as WordPress/Joomla-compatible files, static HTML, or structured XML/CSV/JSON, plus a CLI for automating downloads.
Pros & Cons
Pros
Can rebuild a working copy of a site purely from Wayback Machine archives, useful when the original site and its files are gone
Pay-per-use pricing means occasional users aren't locked into a recurring subscription
Bundled CMS and export options (WordPress/Joomla-compatible, static HTML, JSON/CSV/XML) give flexibility in what you do with the recovered content
Built-in optimization (image compression, minification, link fixing, tracker/ad removal) saves manual cleanup after a restore
Cons
Detailed subscription/plan pricing isn't published on the marketing site — costs are pay-per-file via an account balance, which makes upfront budgeting harder
Wayback Machine restorations are only as complete as what the Internet Archive actually captured, so some pages, assets, or dynamic functionality may not recover cleanly
The bundled Archivarix CMS is a niche, proprietary system rather than a mainstream platform, which may limit long-term support/ecosystem options