Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Canonical
The 20 closest enterprise Linux and open source support alternatives to Canonical, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 7 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Canonical? The closest matches are Red Hat, SAP and Tanium. 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 Canonical
Canonical canonical.com
Trusted open source for enterprises | Canonical
Drive innovation with trusted enterprise open source from Canonical — simple, cost-effective, and supported.
Wikidata: London-based software company, developer of Ubuntu
Summary by Claude
Canonical is the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution. It sells enterprise support, security maintenance and compliance services for open source software, along with infrastructure products for private cloud, Kubernetes, data/AI stacks and IoT edge devices.
- Who it’s for
- Enterprises, IT teams and developers
- Business model
- Support subscriptions and services
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Canonical’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 Canonical
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Canonical, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Red Hat - We make open source technologies for the enterprise
Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, including high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies.
Close cos 0.885 - 02
Autonomous IT, endpoint intelligence and control | Tanium
Tanium is a unified endpoint management and security platform: agentic AI for real-time visibility, patching, and risk remediation across endpoints.
Close cos 0.877 - 03
The Linux Kernel Archives
Unix-like operating system kernel, basis for all Linux operating systems
Close cos 0.879 - 04
The World's Most Distributed Cloud Computing Platform | Akamai
Build and deliver low-latency, edge native applications on Akamai Connected Cloud.
- Google Search Console
- Adobe Experience Manager
- Adobe Experience Platform Tags
- Akamai
- Akamai Bot Manager
- Akamai Edge DNS
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Cloud Software Group home
Cloud Software Group is a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure software solutions encompassing virtualization, integration, data management, automation, business intelligence, collaboration, networking and security.
Close cos 0.876 - 06
RustDesk: Open-Source Remote Desktop with Self-Hosted Server Solutions
RustDesk is open-source remote desktop software for your own self-hosted server, a TeamViewer and AnyDesk alternative for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android.
Close cos 0.876 - 07
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.
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Technical Difficulties
American multinational computer corporation
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Responsible AI Governance & Compliance Solutions | OneTrust
OneTrust helps companies manage privacy, consent, and AI governance while automating compliance and reducing risk to build trust and drive innovation.
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The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network - www.cpan.org
Perl package repository
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IBM
For more than a century, IBM has been a global technology innovator, leading advances in AI, automation and hybrid cloud solutions that help businesses grow.
- Apple Business
- Atlassian
- Google Search Console
- Adobe
- Adobe Experience Manager
- Adobe Experience Platform Tags
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Vercel Security Checkpoint
American software company
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Debian -- The Universal Operating System
Debian is an operating system and a distribution of Free Software. It is maintained and updated through the work of many users who volunteer their time and effort.
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Vulnerability and exposure management | Cloud and AI security | Tenable®
The leader in exposure management and AI security, Tenable cybersecurity solutions reduce cyber risk across IT, OT, cloud, identity & hybrid attack surfaces.
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Open Source ERP and CRM | Odoo
From ERP to CRM, eCommerce and CMS. Download Odoo or use it in the cloud. Grow Your Business.
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Plausible Analytics | Simple, privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative
Plausible is a lightweight and open-source Google Analytics alternative. Your website data is 100% yours and the privacy of your visitors is respected.
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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.
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Instructure: Leading EdTech for K–12, Higher Ed & Business
Empower learning with Instructure’s LMS and edtech solutions for K–12, higher education, and businesses. Discover Canvas, Impact, and Mastery to drive success.
Close cos 0.868 - 19
Datto | IT Solutions Built for You
IT professionals rely on Datto for mission-critical business continuity and disaster recovery, networking, business management, and file backup and sync solutions
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ControlUp | AI Platform & Digital Employee Experience for IT
Automate IT operations and resolve endpoint issues with agentic AI, while keeping IT in control. Explore our digital employee experience software.
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to canonical.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Canonical uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Canonical is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=98BE42870B792CFFB903D0F2C986A63D047CAF3801CE7667C…
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx/1.14.0 (Ubuntu)
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=p5U0KoYntPjPy6ah
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=EfMI3zSzpIoFk2/QhOqWVwC3swzqP9UryHYJFB0…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=987aj5PIoVpH3ybA_tMmNcCZ7sY64IUEGaeafo_hrFk
- Miro TXT miro-verification=2a474c203a12d0d3bdedb1dbfd7df2350d60c43d
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Canonical adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Atlassian 11/20
- Adobe · not on canonical.com 10/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on canonical.com 10/20
- Apple Business 8/20
- DocuSign · not on canonical.com 8/20
- OneTrust · not on canonical.com 6/20
- Proofpoint · not on canonical.com 6/20
- Google Workspace · not on canonical.com 6/20
- Stripe 5/20
- Yandex Webmaster · not on canonical.com 4/20
- Cloudflare · not on canonical.com 4/20
- GlobalSign · not on canonical.com 4/20
- Akamai Bot Manager · not on canonical.com 3/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on canonical.com 3/20
- Drupal · not on canonical.com 3/20