Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Buy Me a Coffee
The 20 closest creator patronage platform alternatives to Buy Me a Coffee, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 11 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Buy Me a Coffee? The closest matches are ko-fi.com, Patreon and note. 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 Buy Me a Coffee
Buy Me a Coffee buymeacoffee.com
Buy Me a Coffee
Buy Me a Coffee is the best way for creators and artists to accept support and membership from their fans.
Wikidata: American crowdfunding website created in 2018
Summary by Claude
Buy Me a Coffee lets creators set up a page where fans can send one-time tips, pay for monthly or yearly memberships, buy digital products from a shop, and access free or members-only posts, audio and email content.
- Who it’s for
- Independent creators, artists, podcasters and their fans
- Business model
- Transaction fees on payments
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Buy Me a Coffee’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 Buy Me a Coffee
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Buy Me a Coffee, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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web patronage service
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Where Creator Communities Thrive — Patreon
Build a community, share exclusive work, and turn your passion into a thriving business with Patreon. Get started today!
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note ――つくる、つながる、とどける。
クリエイターが文章やマンガ、写真、音声を投稿することができ、ユーザーはそのコンテンツを楽しんで応援できるメディアプラットフォームです。だれもが創作を楽しんで続けられるよう、安心できる雰囲気や、多様性を大切にしています。
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Free, Easy Online Stores for Artists & Small Businesses
Start your free online store & scale as you grow. Easily manage your e-commerce business. Join a community of artists & small businesses.
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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.
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Envato® | AI Tools and Unlimited Creative Assets
Create and customize content with AI tools and unlimited creative assets for professional and commercial use.
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American crowdfunding website
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漫画なら、めちゃコミック（めちゃコミ）
無料漫画が42733作品567990話以上！気になるマンガが見つかったら、まずは試し読み。オリジナル・独占先行配信や注目の話題作・感動の名作など充実の品揃え。
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about.me | your personal homepage
Create a free, one-page website in minutes with about.me. Showcase your work, links, and story on a personal homepage that's all about you.
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Raptive — Powering creator independence
CafeMedia and AdThrive are now Raptive, a new kind of company transforming creators into global brands and lasting businesses.
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Starbucks Coffee Company
Explore our menu of handcrafted drinks, order ahead, sign up for Starbucks® Rewards, manage your gift card and more.
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Lifehacker | Do everything better
Lifehacker is the ultimate authority on optimizing every aspect of your life. Do everything better.
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It needs a human touch
Complete the task and we'll get you right back into Fiverr.
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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.
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BOOTH - The International Indie Art Marketplace
BOOTH（ブース）とは、pixivと連携した、創作物の総合マーケットです。無料で簡単にショップを作成でき、商品の保管・発送代行サービスも提供しています！
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GoFundMe | The #1 Crowdfunding and Fundraising Platform
Start your fundraiser in minutes with tools to help you succeed. GoFundMe is the global leader in crowdfunding, trusted by 100+ million people.
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Client Challenge
American online music distributor
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online education platform
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Online fundraising donations and ideas - JustGiving
Fundraise or donate with JustGiving, the worlds leading online fundraising platform, helping charities to make more with GiftAid
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to buymeacoffee.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Buy Me a Coffee uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Buy Me a Coffee is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CSS & UI
- Tailwind CSS page source: tailwindcss v3
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=95acda8ff8a80c42943efa2c7448080559bbc484c590986e6…
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a56319ad69162a39-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:mlrcloud.com include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses…
- Postmark TXT v=spf1 include:mlrcloud.com include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS alexis.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=TIGAwXGV7VUvZMvzZIjonnusU0xoWFxrVdQsHpXoOmM
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=uowjjaddqox3ne3zo53s8y2pt6p1pv
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Buy Me a Coffee adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace 14/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on buymeacoffee.com 12/20
- Cloudflare 11/20
- Atlassian · not on buymeacoffee.com 10/20
- Cloudflare DNS 9/20
- Meta Business Suite 9/20
- Zendesk · not on buymeacoffee.com 9/20
- Apple Business · not on buymeacoffee.com 8/20
- GlobalSign · not on buymeacoffee.com 8/20
- Stripe 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on buymeacoffee.com 7/20
- OpenAI · not on buymeacoffee.com 6/20
- DocuSign · not on buymeacoffee.com 6/20
- Zoom · not on buymeacoffee.com 6/20
- Adobe · not on buymeacoffee.com 5/20