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.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
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- Vector
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- Query
- 6 ms
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
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
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Audible
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Audible, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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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.
Very close cos 0.915 - 02
Challenged | Kobo.com
Canadian subsidiary of Japanese e-commerce conglomerate Rakuten
Very close cos 0.899 - 03
book e-commerce website
Very close cos 0.901 - 04
tidal.com
subscription-based music streaming service
Very close cos 0.902 - 05
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.
Very close cos 0.902 - 06
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.
Very close cos 0.901 - 07
Mixcloud - This is Audio Culture
Join a global community where creators craft a deeper listening experience.
Very close cos 0.896 - 08
HBO Max | Stream Series and Movies
Stream must-see series, hit movies, exclusive originals, family favorites, and live sports.
Close cos 0.889 - 09
online education platform
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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!
Close cos 0.888 - 11
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!
Close cos 0.887 - 12
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.
Close cos 0.882 - 13
De Gruyter Brill
De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence
Close cos 0.884 - 14
Error Page | eBay
American multinational internet corporation that manages eBay.com
Close cos 0.884 - 15
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.
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Client Challenge
American online music distributor
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Client Challenge
global publishing company
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Sweetwater: Musical Instruments, Pro Audio, Accessories & More
Sweetwater is the world's leading music technology and instrument retailer, offering ✓ Highly Knowledgeable Sales Engineers, ✓ In-house Technical Support...
Close cos 0.879 - 19
Verifying your connection...
American book retailer
Close cos 0.878 - 20
Welcome to Open Library | Open Library
Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.
Close cos 0.878
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
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms25326476
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:amazon.com include:amazonses.com -all
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-524.awsdns-01.net
- 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
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Audible adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace · not on audible.com 12/20
- Atlassian 11/20
- Microsoft 365 10/20
- Amazon Route 53 9/20
- Apple Business · not on audible.com 8/20
- Meta Business Suite 8/20
- GlobalSign · not on audible.com 7/20
- Amazon SES 6/20
- SendGrid · not on audible.com 6/20
- Amazon CloudFront 6/20
- Zendesk · not on audible.com 5/20
- React · not on audible.com 5/20
- Notion · not on audible.com 4/20
- OneTrust · not on audible.com 4/20
- Salesforce · not on audible.com 4/20