Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Block
The 20 closest financial technology alternatives to Block, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 15 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Block? The closest matches are squareup.com, Cash App and CoinDesk. 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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- k = 20
- Sites searched
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- Query
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01 · Entity
About Block
Block block.xyz
Block
Made up of Square, Cash App, Afterpay, TIDAL, Bitkey, and Proto, Block, Inc. builds technology to increase access to the global economy.
Wikidata: American financial services company
Summary by Claude
Corporate website of Block, Inc., the parent company of Square (merchant point-of-sale and payments), Cash App (consumer mobile payments), Afterpay (buy now, pay later), TIDAL (music streaming), Bitkey (bitcoin wallet) and Proto (bitcoin mining hardware).
- Who it’s for
- Investors, job seekers, merchants and consumers
- Business model
- Transaction fees, subscriptions, and financial services revenue
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Block’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 Block
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Block, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Power your entire business | Square
Sell anywhere. Diversify revenue streams. Streamline operations. Manage your staff. Get paid faster. Sign up for Square today.
Very close cos 0.918 - 02
Send, Receive, Invest, & Manage Your Money with Cash App
Download Cash App to send & receive money instantly, spend with the Cash App Card, buy bitcoin, invest in stocks, & manage your finances.
Very close cos 0.909 - 03
Vercel Security Checkpoint
news site about bitcoin and digital currencies, owned by Digital Currency Group
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Bitpanda - Start investing today
Trade in minutes from only €1. Your No.1 European broker for stocks, crypto, indices, ETFs and precious metals. Trade 24/7. Fee-free on all deposits.
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GCash - #1 Finance Super App
GCash - Your all-in-one super app for shopping, investing, buying insurance, and more. Pay bills, buy load, and send money in a few taps.
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TradingView — Track All Markets
Where the world charts, chats, and trades markets. We're a supercharged super-charting platform and social network for traders and investors. Free to sign up.
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Website Builder – Easily Create Your Own Website — Squarespace
Create a website and grow your business with a free Squarespace trial. Start with customizable website templates, AI website builder tools, or a domain name.
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Paysafe | It starts here
We have a payment solution for every business. Using our global expertise we can help any business grow, from SMBs to large corporations. See our services here.
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Kassensysteme, Kartenlesegerät und Zahlungslösungen | PayPal DE
Moderne Kassensysteme als App für Zahlungsannahme und Umsatzverfolgung: Machen Sie sich Ihren Geschäftsalltag mit PayPal Point of Sale leichter.
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Create a Website for Free. Tilda Website Builder
Create a website, online store, landing page with Tilda intuitive website builder. Build your site from hundreds of pre-designed templates and publish it today. No code required.
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French multinational telecommunications enterprise
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Intel Inside - Built for AI
Deliver AI at scale across cloud, data center, edge, and client with comprehensive hardware and software solutions.
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Shop - Shopping designed around you
Shop from top brands, earn exclusive rewards, and track your packages all in one place. Now available on iOS, Android, and web.
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EarnIn | You worked today. Get paid today.
EarnIn is an app that gives you access to the pay you've earned - when you want it. Get paid for the hours you've worked without waiting for payday.
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Apple
Discover the innovative world of Apple and shop everything iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, and Apple TV, plus explore accessories, entertainment, and expert device support.
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Vermögensverwaltung und Finanzdienstleistungen | BlackRock
Seit über 30 Jahren arbeitet BlackRock daran, die Wirtschaft zu stärken und Anlegern zu ihren finanziellen Zielen zu verhelfen.
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Payment services to power your performance | Checkout.com
Boost your acceptance rate, cut processing costs, fight fraud, and create extraordinary customer experiences with Checkout.com's payment solutions.
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AADS – First Crypto & Bitcoin Advertising Network
Promote your crypto project with AADS – top crypto ad network accepting Bitcoin and other coins. Buy targeted crypto traffic easily and effectively.
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Pay, Send and Save Money with PayPal | PayPal US
From paying friends to saving money or getting cash back when you shop, explore what the new PayPal app has to offer.
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All-in-One Global Payment Platform for Businesses | Payoneer
Payoneer empowers millions of businesses with the financial software and services they need to grow and transact globally with confidence.
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to block.xyz’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Block uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Block is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CMS
- Sanity page source: cdn.sanity.io/
- JavaScript frameworks
- SvelteKit page source: /_app/immutable/
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=65D5F85D03979AEEF3452A27D1EFACD75E9D04DCC44E1BC99…
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-ber1080042-BER
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms29102686
- Email delivery
- Mailgun TXT v=spf1 include:mailgun.org include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.qualt…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-810.awsdns-37.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=dNvCajQcAfrr6Ezn
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=9iYUpJGNkg1t97CI3rPIi2JSZhPPPq2vqa29bn1…
- DocuSign TXT docusign=46ff2ae8-bd94-4066-bcdc-fe1a5c60bfd0
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=s0R1xOTWx9VXU5rZFOApA-J2-9FT1B3ITu5EpR2Yqoo
- Miro TXT miro-verification=eb2231722e9ee6e925e69e31c221403361bbc1cb
- Notion TXT notion-domain-verification=TkVKPd9lquBKR502do5e4nP34sN5dv1VAis7jPipcIR
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-k6Am2xbXfZBED42f8dvlPKVm
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Block adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Atlassian 14/20
- Google Workspace 12/20
- Apple Business 11/20
- DocuSign 11/20
- Microsoft 365 10/20
- Cloudflare · not on block.xyz 9/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on block.xyz 9/20
- OneTrust · not on block.xyz 9/20
- OpenAI 9/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on block.xyz 8/20
- Miro 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 7/20
- Zendesk · not on block.xyz 7/20
- Canva · not on block.xyz 6/20
- Slack · not on block.xyz 6/20