Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Blender
The 20 closest 3D modeling software alternatives to Blender, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 8 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Blender? The closest matches are Tinkercad, Canva and Hugging Face. 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 Blender
Blender blender.org
Blender - The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
The Freedom to Create
Wikidata: 3D computer graphics software (free and open-source)
Summary by Claude
Free and open-source 3D computer graphics software for modeling, animation, sculpting, rendering, visual effects, compositing and video editing, developed by the Blender Foundation, which also publishes news, development updates and open movies.
- Who it’s for
- 3D artists, animators, VFX and game developers
- Business model
- Donations and development fund sponsorships
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Blender’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 Blender
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Blender, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Canva
online graphic design platform
Very close cos 0.903 - 02
GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program
GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program: The Free and Open Source Image Editor
Close cos 0.888 - 03
Envato® | AI Tools and Unlimited Creative Assets
Create and customize content with AI tools and unlimited creative assets for professional and commercial use.
Close cos 0.891 - 04
Desmos | Beautiful free math.
Desmos Studio builds free Graphing, Scientific, Geometry, and 3D Calculators along with Notebook. Explore our tools, partner with us, or explore examples for inspiration.
Close cos 0.886 - 05
Doxygen homepage
Source code documentation and analysis tool
Close cos 0.886 - 06
The FreeType Project
The FreeType Project: a free, high-quality and portable Font engine
Close cos 0.883 - 07
ImageMagick | Mastering Digital Image Alchemy
ImageMagick is a powerful open-source software suite for creating, editing, converting, and manipulating images in over 200 formats.
Close cos 0.883 - 08
GameBanana | The Game Modding Community - Since 2001
Mods, Tutorials, Sprays, Works In Progress, Sound Mods and more for video games
Close cos 0.885 - 09
Tom's Hardware: For The Hardcore PC Enthusiast
Tom's Hardware helps you buy the best hardware and build the best PC to play, create and work..
Close cos 0.883 - 10
Sketchfab - The best 3D viewer on the web
With a community of over one million creators, we are the world’s largest platform to publish, share, and discover 3D content on web, mobile, AR, and VR.
Close cos 0.878 - 11
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database of icons
Close cos 0.880 - 12
GIPHY - Be Animated
GIPHY is the platform that animates your world. Find the GIFs, Clips, and Stickers that make your conversations more positive, more expressive, and more you.
Close cos 0.880 - 13
Free 3D Printer Models & STL Files | Creality Cloud
Discover free 3D printer models, STL files and 3D print files on Creality Cloud. Download, print, create and share designs with millions of makers.
Close cos 0.876 - 14
World Leader in Artificial Intelligence Computing | NVIDIA
NVIDIA invents the GPU and drives advances in AI, HPC, gaming, creative design, autonomous vehicles, and robotics.
- Google Search Console
- Microsoft 365
- Adobe Experience Manager
- Adobe Experience Platform Tags
- Apache HTTP Server
- Apple Business
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Enlightenment Main
window manager for Unix-like operating systems
Close cos 0.875 - 16
Checking you are not a bot
open-source desktop environment software project
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R: The R Project for Statistical Computing
programming language for statistical analysis
Close cos 0.875 - 18
Home - KDE Community
KDE is an open community of friendly people who want to create a world in which everyone has control over their digital life and enjoys freedom and privacy.
Close cos 0.874 - 19
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stock photography site
Close cos 0.875 - 20
GeeksforGeeks | Your All-in-One Learning Portal
Your All-in-One Learning Portal. It contains well written, well thought and well explained computer science and programming articles, quizzes and practice/competitive programming/company interview Questions.
Close cos 0.877
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to blender.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Blender uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Blender is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress meta generator: WordPress 7.1.4
- Analytics
- Cloudflare Web Analytics asset https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vce701823e78c4301a35b7e07294d87301792…
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5631b1ac9101f5f-HAM
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 7.1.4)
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms98852839
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS anastasia.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=m0CfMKRwaNuSd0BVpxxOn0giKfNmw9yo4mvqCqUfEhQ
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Blender adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Google Workspace 11/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on blender.org 9/20
- OpenAI · not on blender.org 8/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on blender.org 7/20
- Cloudflare 7/20
- Stripe · not on blender.org 7/20
- Microsoft 365 6/20
- Apple Business · not on blender.org 6/20
- Atlassian · not on blender.org 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS 6/20
- DocuSign · not on blender.org 5/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on blender.org 4/20
- OneTrust · not on blender.org 4/20
- Miro · not on blender.org 4/20
- Fastly · not on blender.org 4/20