Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Audible

The 20 closest audiobook streaming alternatives to Audible, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 10 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Audible? The closest matches are Spotify, Rakuten Kobo and Bookshop.org. 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.

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01 · Entity

About Audible

Audible audible.com

Audible | Listen to Audiobooks, Podcasts, & Originals

Try Audible free for 30 days. Discover best-selling audiobooks, free podcasts, and exclusive Audible Originals. Listen offline with the Audible app.

Wikidata: Amazon-owned seller and producer of spoken online audio content

Top 10K · #2,547 English 10 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit Audible

Summary by Claude

Audible sells and streams audiobooks, podcasts and its own exclusive Audible Originals, mainly through a monthly membership that gives credits plus access to an included catalog, with offline listening in its app.

Who it’s for
Consumers who listen to audiobooks
Business model
Subscriptions and audiobook sales

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Audible’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

HBO MaxLitresMixcloudQobuzAudiomackSoundCloudTidalBookshop.orgRakuten KoboSpotify

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Audible

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Audible, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    Spotify spotify.com Top 100 English

    Spotify - Web Player: Listen to Music, Podcasts, and Audiobooks Online

    Spotify is a digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs, podcasts, and audiobooks. Listen to your favorites online now.

  2. 02
    Rakuten Kobo kobo.com Top 10K English

    Challenged | Kobo.com

    Canadian subsidiary of Japanese e-commerce conglomerate Rakuten

  3. 03
    Bookshop.org bookshop.org Top 10K English

    book e-commerce website

  4. 04
    Tidal tidal.com Top 10K English

    tidal.com

    subscription-based music streaming service

  5. 05
    SoundCloud soundcloud.com Top 1K English

    Stream and listen to music online for free with SoundCloud

    Discover and play over 320 million music tracks. Join the world’s largest online community of artists, bands, DJs, and audio creators.

  6. 06
    Audiomack audiomack.com Top 10K English

    Audiomack - Music platform empowering artists & fans | Audiomack

    Audiomack is a youth-driven, artist-first music streaming platform that allows creators to share unlimited music and podcast content for free.

  7. 07
    Qobuz qobuz.com Top 10K German

    Qobuz - Musik in hoher Soundqualität - Streaming und Downloadkäufe in Hi-Res Audio (Germany)

    Mehr als 100 Millionen Titel im Streaming in hoher Klangqualität. Qobuz ist zudem führender Hi-Res-Downloadshop.

  8. 08
    Mixcloud mixcloud.com Top 10K English

    Mixcloud - This is Audio Culture

    Join a global community where creators craft a deeper listening experience.

  9. 09
    Litres litres.ru Top 10K Russian

    Литрес – сервис электронных и аудиокниг, скачать в fb2 и mp3, читать и слушать онлайн на Litres

    Литрес – цифровой сервис электронных и аудиокниг, а также другого контента: подкасты, спектакли, интервью – скачивай, читай и слушай на любых устройствах. На Litres вы найдете рейтинги лучших книг, отзывы, рецензии, рекомендации, популярные авторы и многое другое.

  10. 10
    HBO Max hbomax.com Top 10K English

    HBO Max | Stream Series and Movies

    Stream must-see series, hit movies, exclusive originals, family favorites, and live sports.

  11. 11
    MasterClass masterclass.com English

    online education platform

  12. 12
    iHeart iheart.com Top 10K English

    Listen to the Best Podcasts & Shows Online, Free | iHeart

    Listen to the latest episodes from top podcasts. Get news, sports & lifestyle info from your favorite personalities for free!

  13. 13
    iVoox ivoox.com Top 10K English

    The leading podcast platform in Spanish - iVoox

    Enjoy thousands of podcasts, audiobooks and radio stations in the biggest audio catalog in Spanish. Listen for free wherever and whenever you want on iVoox!

  14. 14
    Ximalaya FM ximalaya.com Top 10K

    喜马拉雅-国内专业音频分享平台,随时随地,听我想听!

    国内专业音频分享平台,随时随地,听我想听!4亿用户选择的在线音频平台。马东、郭德纲、吴晓波等20多万大咖入驻,1亿多条原创有声内容覆盖有声书、儿童、相声评书、财经新闻、音乐等328类。

  15. 15
    OverDrive overdrive.com Top 10K English

    OverDrive: Free ebooks, audiobooks & movies from your library.

    Thousands of libraries & schools offer free digital content thru OverDrive's suite of products/services. Learn more about Libby, Kanopy, Sora & TeachingBooks.

  16. 16
    De Gruyter Brill degruyterbrill.com Top 10K English

    De Gruyter Brill

    De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence

  17. 17
    eBay ebay.com Top 1K English

    Error Page | eBay

    American multinational internet corporation that manages eBay.com

  18. 18
    AbeBooks abebooks.com Top 10K English

    AbeBooks | Shop for Books, Art & Collectibles

    Discover a wonderful selection of rare and collectible books, used copies, signed and first editions and more, from booksellers located around the world.

  19. 19
    bandcamp.com Top 1K English

    Client Challenge

    American online music distributor

  20. 20
    Goodreads goodreads.com Top 1K

    Goodreads | Meet your next favorite book

    Find and read more books you’ll love, and keep track of the books you want to read. Be part of the world’s largest community of book lovers on Goodreads.

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to audible.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Audible uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What Audible is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

CDN
  • Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: q2gXbWcQGUCoR9KkgF3Bs0ix6GjFlxHPK5OW7RLhdAEq4Tt-CB9ogQ==
Email hosting
Email delivery
  • Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:amazon.com include:amazonses.com -all
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=b6bcd3e5aaffc63607c8bf75744d9a0d1febc50dd…
  • Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=ZT4AapXgobCpXIWoNcd7gtMjZyOUdr4EDFMnFUW…
  • Bing Webmaster Tools meta msvalidate.01: 250EEA2B67A0CAF7FFE7CE6E8C5BEEFE
  • Canva TXT canva-site-verification=F96_uXbawjt8D5Fwblr-HQ
  • Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: t9sOBIYlv8mxQTDiWME0RkUfwDV843JGFkSMDooU804
  • Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=02nrs9osbr9uuw4ctsan2g2x3q1ha4

Stack changes

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Competitors by meaning, stacks from the source. Data from public homepages and DNS.

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