Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Airbnb
The 20 closest vacation rental marketplace alternatives to Airbnb, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 18 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Airbnb? The closest matches are Vrbo, Houfy and booking.com. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 17 ms
01 · Entity
About Airbnb
Airbnb airbnb.com
Airbnb: Vacation Rentals, Cabins, Beach Houses, Unique Homes & Experiences
Get an Airbnb for every kind of trip → 8 million vacation rentals → 2 million Guest Favorites → 220+ countries and regions worldwide
Wikidata: American online platform for rental accommodations
Summary by Claude
Online marketplace where travelers book short- and long-term stays in private homes, apartments, villas and cabins listed by hosts, plus local experiences and services.
- Who it’s for
- Travelers and property hosts
- Business model
- Booking commissions
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Airbnb’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Airbnb
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Airbnb, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Bot or Not?
American vacation rental online marketplace
Very close cos 0.970 - 02
Book Direct Vacation Rentals – Houfy
Book direct with verified hosts. Message the host, agree to the terms, and pay the host directly on Houfy.
Very close cos 0.940 - 03
website and mobile apps for booking accommodation
Very close cos 0.944 - 04 Very close cos 0.939
- 05
viator.com
online travel marketplace
Very close cos 0.937 - 06
tripadvisor.com
American travel website company
Very close cos 0.936 - 07
Online travel platform for booking hotels, vacation rentals, and other accommodation worldwide
Very close cos 0.932 - 08
With over 1 million rental listings, Apartments.com is the place to find a place.
Very close cos 0.932 - 09
GetYourGuide – Error
website where tourists can book activities
Very close cos 0.926 - 10
Cheap Car Rental, Price Match Guarantee - Rentalcars.com
Find the best rental prices on luxury, economy, and family rental cars with FREE amendments in over 60,000 locations worldwide, reserve online today!
Very close cos 0.925 - 11
Trip.com Official Site | Travel Deals and Promotions
Choose from over 1.2 million hotels in more than 200 countries, 30 million real guest reviews. Book flights to over 5,000 destinations worldwide. 24/7 Customer Service.
Very close cos 0.927 - 12 hostelworld.com English
Hostels Worldwide - Online Bookings, Ratings and Reviews
Online confirmed bookings for backpacker hostels around the world. City guides, sightseeing, entertainment and backpacking information for hostels and backpacker tours around the world.
Very close cos 0.924 - 13
Priceline.com - The Best Deals on Hotels, Flights and Rental Cars.
Deep Discounts on Hotels, Flights and Rental Cars. Get Exclusive Savings with Priceline.com.
Very close cos 0.923 - 14
Ich bin kein Roboter - ImmobilienScout24
an online service/website that offers search for real estate (houses, apartments, etc.) purchase or rental in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
Very close cos 0.924 - 15
رزرو هتل و هتل آپارتمان آنلاین با بهترین قیمت تا 91% تخفیف
رزرو هتل و هتل آپارتمان داخل و خارج کشور تا 91% تخفیف ویژه و بهترین قیمت با پشتیبانی 24ساعته
- Google Search Console
- Angular
- AngularJS
- Google Ads conversion tracking
- Google Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
Very close cos 0.919 - 16
Zillow: Real Estate, Apartments, Mortgages & Home Values
The leading real estate marketplace. Search millions of for-sale and rental listings, compare Zestimate® home values and connect with local professionals.
Very close cos 0.919 - 17
Human Verification
American real estate brokerage
Very close cos 0.919 - 18
klook.com
website where tourists can book activities
Very close cos 0.919 - 19
OnTheMarket | Property, Houses & Flats for Sale & to Rent
The most uncluttered, user-friendly property portal. Find hundreds of 1000s of properties for sale & to rent from leading UK estate agents | OnTheMarket
Very close cos 0.919 - 20
Indian online travel company
Very close cos 0.917
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to airbnb.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Airbnb uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Airbnb is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=271cb9609512aa1a36ff5693b0a5cd9f04d19e089e8abae29…
- Monitoring
- Bugsnag page source: notify.bugsnag.com
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Maps
- Google Maps page source: maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms85621737
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-474.awsdns-59.com
- NS1 NS dns1.p08.nsone.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=e68ae64c-3a65-4439-b368-0042e72c4cc8
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=KVJVb0VKHY0IkzDH
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=mvMbea0qZ4IoMr8/xjkRYgjiHikXBbF04PZnZYv…
- Canva TXT canva-site-verification=LTDCDSi1WalQaoEcq8B1WA
- DocuSign TXT docusign=d56dee1c-0384-4ffa-8801-e6bea308af97
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=_e6Ayd8GN0S5dR116WkaM5ds5tx3ekRD5DC9-51pGrg
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=t3zulila9jjnrfbyt6vjamhqdxz47f
- Miro TXT miro-verification=c5c6890aa37542fb59662ade09a0778c6e028b2f
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-g8FeEwzIIZCUjUpPuF8szG3a
- Webex TXT webexdomainverification.=162d362c-c218-48f0-8b53-0017116e6f29
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Airbnb adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Microsoft 365 17/20
- Atlassian 15/20
- Apple Business 14/20
- Meta Business Suite 12/20
- Adobe 10/20
- Amazon Route 53 10/20
- Google Workspace 9/20
- OpenAI 9/20
- DocuSign 8/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on airbnb.com 8/20
- GlobalSign · not on airbnb.com 7/20
- Zendesk · not on airbnb.com 7/20
- Miro 6/20
- Salesforce · not on airbnb.com 6/20
- Slack · not on airbnb.com 6/20