Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Microsoft
The 20 closest cloud computing alternatives to Microsoft, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 8 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Microsoft? The closest matches are Rackspace Technology, Linode and Cloudinary. 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
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01 · Entity
About Microsoft
Microsoft azure.com
Cloud Computing Services | Microsoft Azure
Invent with purpose, realize cost savings, and make your organization more efficient with Microsoft Azure’s open and flexible cloud computing platform.
Summary by Claude
Microsoft Azure is a public cloud computing platform offering virtual machines, containers, databases, storage, networking, analytics, security and AI services for building, hosting and migrating applications.
- Who it’s for
- Developers, IT teams and enterprises
- Business model
- Usage-based cloud service fees
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Microsoft’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 Microsoft
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Microsoft, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Rackspace Technology | Where Enterprise AI runs and outcomes scale
As a cloud computing services pioneer, we deliver proven multicloud solutions across your apps, data, and security. Maximize the benefits of modern cloud.
Very close cos 0.898 - 02
The World's Most Distributed Cloud Computing Platform | Akamai
Build and deliver low-latency, edge native applications on Akamai Connected Cloud.
- Adobe Experience Manager
- Akamai
- Google Search Console
- Microsoft 365
- Adobe Experience Platform Tags
- Akamai Bot Manager
Close cos 0.893 - 03
Image and Video Platform for Visual Experiences | Cloudinary
Streamline media management and improve user experience by automatically delivering images and videos, enhanced and optimized for every user.
Close cos 0.890 - 04
The AI Workspace for People & Agents | monday.com
Get more work done with AI agents that work side by side with your people. Execute, manage, and operate together on one AI Workspace to drive business results.
Close cos 0.891 - 05
AI-powered Observability
New Relic is an AI-powered observability platform that correlates your telemetry across your entire stack, so you can isolate the root cause and reduce MTTR.
Close cos 0.890 - 06
European Cloud & AI. | Scaleway
Build on a secure, transparent, and fast-moving cloud & AI platform built for what’s next.
Close cos 0.887 - 07
Search - Microsoft Bing
Search with Microsoft Bing and use the power of AI to find information, explore webpages, images, videos, maps, and more. A smart search engine for the forever curious.
Close cos 0.886 - 08
OVHcloud
OVHcloud is a global, cloud provider delivering hosted private cloud, public cloud, and dedicated server solutions trusted by over 1.5 million developers.
Close cos 0.885 - 09
Cloud, Cybersecurity, Managed Networks, and Communications Services | Claranet
Modernise and protect your organisation with our expert approach and global leadership in transformation and technology.
Close cos 0.882 - 10
One platform to connect | Zoom
Modernize workflows with Zoom's trusted collaboration tools: including video meetings, Zoom Chat, VoIP phone, webinars, whiteboard, contact center, and events.
Close cos 0.884 - 11
Microsoft 365 - Sign into Copilot
Microsoft 365 includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and OneDrive, with Microsoft Copilot built in to help you create, communicate, and summarize information. Formerly Office 365.
Close cos 0.883 - 12
Alibaba Cloud: Reliable Secure Cloud Solutions to Empower Your Global Business
Alibaba Cloud offers a integrated suite of cloud products and services that are reliable and secure, to help you build cloud infrastructure, data centers in multi regions empower your global business. Try for Free.
Close cos 0.882 - 13
AI-Native Cloud | DigitalOcean
Run AI products in production with a unified stack for agents, inference, and cloud—built for control, performance, and economics at scale.
Close cos 0.880 - 14
Accounting Software for Small Businesses | Xero
Xero software for small businesses connects you to your bank, accountant, bookkeeper, and other business apps. Start a free trial today.
Close cos 0.882 - 15
Cloud Monitoring as a Service | Datadog
See inside any stack, any app, at any scale, anywhere.
Close cos 0.881 - 16
Fly.io | Deploy apps and agents on fast, hardware-isolated VMs
Deploy apps, agents, and databases on fast, hardware-isolated VMs. Pay only for the seconds they run. Sign up free.
Close cos 0.879 - 17
Snowflake AI Data Cloud
Snowflake powers AI, data engineering, applications, and analytics on a trusted, scalable AI Data Cloud—eliminating silos and accelerating innovation.
Close cos 0.878 - 18
Kubernetes
Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It groups containers that make up an application into logical units for easy management and discovery. Kubernetes builds upon 15 years of experience of running production workloads at Google, combined with best-of-breed ideas and practices from the community. Planet scaleDesigned on the same principles that allow Google to run billions of containers a week, Kubernetes can scale without increasing your operations team.
Close cos 0.874 - 19
AI App and Website Builder | Replit
Describe what you want. Replit builds it. Get a working app or website in minutes. No coding required.
Close cos 0.875 - 20
Visual Studio App Center | iOS, Android, Xamarin & React Native
Continuously build, test, release and monitor apps for every platform.
Close cos 0.874
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to azure.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Microsoft uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Microsoft is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CMS
- Adobe Experience Manager page source: /etc.clientlibs/
- CDN
- Akamai header x-akamai-transformed: 9 - 0 pmb=mRUM,2
- Azure Front Door header x-azure-ref: 20261106T091044Z-17db9fdbcd79w2wkhC1AMS6q9w00000004qg000000…
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX azure-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- Email delivery
- SparkPost TXT v=spf1 include:sparkpostmail.com ~all
- DNS hosting
- Azure DNS NS ns3-39.azure-dns.org
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=Iy1v50CTys4-99S9JxhQC4DDbCaN7YXdu-z5wbWDAEY
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=l4ke8if4pstaadd9urwauavlfhnnjz
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Microsoft adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace · not on azure.com 12/20
- Apple Business · not on azure.com 11/20
- Microsoft 365 11/20
- Atlassian · not on azure.com 10/20
- OpenAI · not on azure.com 9/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on azure.com 8/20
- DocuSign · not on azure.com 7/20
- Adobe · not on azure.com 7/20
- Cloudflare · not on azure.com 7/20
- Stripe · not on azure.com 7/20
- OneTrust · not on azure.com 6/20
- GlobalSign · not on azure.com 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on azure.com 6/20
- React · not on azure.com 6/20
- Canva · not on azure.com 5/20