Alternatives and competitors

Sites like BitTorrent

The 20 closest BitTorrent client software alternatives to BitTorrent, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 11 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to BitTorrent? The closest matches are utorrent.com, The Pirate Bay and 1337x. 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 BitTorrent

BitTorrent bittorrent.com

BitTorrent | Official Torrent Client & Free Download

Download BitTorrent — the world's most popular torrent client with over 2 billion installs. Free versions available for Windows, Mac, and Android. Stream while you download.

Wikidata: peer-to-peer program for uploading and downloading files via the BitTorrent protocol

Top 10K · #5,453 English 11 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit BitTorrent

Summary by Claude

BitTorrent is a downloadable torrent client for peer-to-peer file sharing via the BitTorrent protocol, with desktop (Classic and Web), macOS and Android versions that can stream files while they download.

Who it’s for
Consumers downloading torrent files
Business model
Advertising and paid premium versions

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to BitTorrent’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

UbuntuSaveFrom.netMediaFireYouTubeWeTransferSyncthing1337xThe Pirate Bayutorrent.com

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to BitTorrent

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

Only in English
  1. 01
    utorrent.com Top 10K English

    µTorrent — Free Torrent Client for Windows, Mac & Android | Official Site

    Download µTorrent — the world's #1 BitTorrent client. Lightweight, fast, and free for Windows, Mac, and Android. Stream while you download with uTorrent Web.

  2. 02
    The Pirate Bay thepiratebay.org Top 10K English

    Download music, movies, games, software! The Pirate Bay - The galaxy's most resilient BitTorrent site

    Download music, movies, games, software and much more. The Pirate Bay is the galaxy's most resilient BitTorrent site.

  3. 03
    1337x 1337x.to Top 10K English

    website that provides a directory of torrent files and magnet links used for peer-to-peer file sharing

  4. 04
    Syncthing syncthing.net Top 10K English

    Syncthing

    open source continuous file synchronization software

  5. 05
    Softpedia softpedia.com Top 10K English

    software and tech-news website based in Romania

  6. 06
    pixeldrain pixeldrain.com Top 10K English

    Cloud storage and data transfer services ~ pixeldrain

    Pixeldrain is a file transfer service, you can upload any file and you will be given a shareable link right away. pixeldrain also supports previews for images, videos, audio, PDFs and much more.

  7. 07
    WeTransfer wetransfer.com Top 10K English

    WeTransfer | Skicka stora filer snabbt

    Det enkla, snabba och säkra sättet att skicka filer till hela världen utan ett konto. Dela filer, foton och videor idag helt gratis.

  8. 08
    actionverb.com Top 10K English

    Managed File Transfer, SFTP & File Sharing — Files.com

    Files.com moves and manages every file your business depends on — across any cloud and any partner, from one place. It replaces MFT tools, SFTP servers, file servers, and scripts.

  9. 09
    curl curl.se Top 10K English

    curl

    command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax

  10. 10
    4shared 4shared.com Top 10K English

    4shared - free file sharing and storage

    Online file sharing and storage - 15 GB free web space. Easy registration. File upload progressor. Multiple file transfer. Fast download.

  11. 11
    YouTube youtube.com Top 100 English

    YouTube

    Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

  12. 12
    MediaFire mediafire.com Top 1K English

    File sharing and storage made simple

    MediaFire is a simple to use free service that lets you put all your photos, documents, music, and video in a single place so you can access them anywhere and share them everywhere.

  13. 13
    SaveFrom.net savefrom.net Top 10K English

    Free Online Video Downloader - SaveFrom.net

    Download videos from popular platforms with SaveFrom.net, the leading free online video downloader. Easily save videos in various formats and resolutions. Start downloading now!

  14. 14
    tenor.com Top 10K English

    Tenor GIF Keyboard - Bring Personality To Your Conversations

    Say more with Tenor. Find the perfect Animated GIFs and videos to convey exactly what you mean in every conversation.

  15. 15
    Xunlei Limited xunlei.com Top 10K English

    迅雷-构建全球最大的去中心化存储与传输网络

    迅雷是一家全球领先的去中心化服务商,以技术构建商业,以服务创造共识,累计用户超4亿。面向个人和企业推出迅雷下载、迅雷云盘、迅雷影音、迅雷直播、迅雷会员、云计算、区块链等产品。

  16. 16
    Ubuntu ubuntu.com Top 1K English

    The enterprise Linux for open source innovation | Ubuntu

    Ubuntu is the modern, enterprise Linux operating system for servers, desktop, cloud, and IoT. Supported for up to 15 years

  17. 17
    Tidal tidal.com Top 10K English

    tidal.com

    subscription-based music streaming service

  18. 18
    Linux kernel kernel.org Top 10K English

    The Linux Kernel Archives

    Unix-like operating system kernel, basis for all Linux operating systems

  19. 19
    filezilla-project.org Top 10K English

    FileZilla - The free FTP solution

    FileZilla - The free FTP solution for both client and server. Filezilla is open source software distributed free of charge.

  20. 20
    Tor Project torproject.org Top 10K English

    Tor Project | Anonymity Online

    Anonymity Online | Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance. Circumvent censorship.

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

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

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

Built with

JavaScript frameworks
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  • React implied by Gatsby (page source: id="___gatsby")
Tag managers
CDN
  • Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: Q7eF2iYu77LFsQF0gd4N7bHwaVeTUj4dgoduxXVC-NJDFS4WaZ26ng==
Hosting
Email hosting
Email delivery
  • Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 mx ip4:208.72.192.0/21 include:_spf.google.com include:amazons…
  • Mailchimp Transactional TXT v=spf1 mx ip4:208.72.192.0/21 include:_spf.google.com include:amazons…
  • SendGrid TXT v=spf1 mx ip4:208.72.192.0/21 include:_spf.google.com include:amazons…
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)

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