Alternatives and competitors
Sites like CIA
The 20 closest government intelligence agency alternatives to CIA, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 4 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to CIA? The closest matches are United States Department of State, Federal Bureau of Investigation and CISA. 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.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
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- Vector
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01 · Entity
About CIA
Summary by Claude
Official website of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, providing information about its foreign intelligence mission, history, press releases, stories, and career and job application information.
- Who it’s for
- U.S. public, job seekers, researchers
- Business model
- Government funded
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to CIA’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 CIA
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to CIA, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Technical Difficulties
executive department of the U.S. federal government
Very close cos 0.925 - 02
U.S. federal law enforcement agency
Very close cos 0.917 - 03
Home Page | CISA
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency: America's Cyber Defense Agency
Very close cos 0.914 - 04
NASA
NASA.gov brings you the latest news, images and videos from America's space agency, pioneering the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research.
Very close cos 0.914 - 05
Canada.ca
The Government of Canada website is a single point of access to all programs, services, departments, ministries and organizations of the Government of Canada.
- Akamai
- Adobe
- Adobe Experience Manager
- Adobe Experience Platform Tags
- Apache HTTP Server
- Google Search Console
Very close cos 0.911 - 06
executive department of the United States federal government
Very close cos 0.912 - 07
The White House
President Donald J. Trump and Vice President JD Vance are committed to lowering costs for all Americans, securing our borders, unleashing American energy dominance, restoring peace through strength, and making all Americans safe and secure once again.
Very close cos 0.911 - 08
Azure WAF
Azure WAF
Very close cos 0.911 - 09
Making government services easier to find | USAGov
Find government benefits, services, agencies, and information at USA.gov. Contact elected officials. Learn about passports, Social Security, taxes, and more.
Very close cos 0.911 - 10
The Official Home Page of the United States Army
The latest news, images, videos, career information, and links from the U.S. Army
Very close cos 0.907 - 11 Very close cos 0.907
- 12
National Archives | Home
National Archives and Records Administration
Very close cos 0.906 - 13
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | CDC
United States government public health agency
Very close cos 0.905 - 14 Very close cos 0.904
- 15
US government medical research agency
Very close cos 0.903 - 16
GovInfo | U.S. Government Publishing Office
U.S. Government Publishing Office
Very close cos 0.903 - 17
Home | Homeland Security
U.S. Department of Homeland Security: With honor and integrity, we will safeguard the American people, our homeland, and our values.
Very close cos 0.901 - 18
maritime branch of the United States military
Very close cos 0.901 - 19
Department of Justice | Homepage | United States Department of Justice
Official website of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). DOJ’s mission is to enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law; to ensure public safety against threats foreign and domestic; to provide federal leadership in preventing and controlling crime; to seek just punishment for those guilty of unlawful behavior; and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans.
Very close cos 0.900 - 20
Homepage | house.gov
lower house of the United States Congress
Very close cos 0.900
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to cia.gov’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones CIA uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What CIA is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- CDN
- Akamai header x-akamai-transformed: 9 97926 0 pmb=mNONE,1
- DNS hosting
- Akamai Edge DNS NS a13-65.akam.net
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what CIA adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on cia.gov 18/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on cia.gov 13/20
- jQuery · not on cia.gov 9/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on cia.gov 8/20
- PHP · not on cia.gov 8/20
- Adobe · not on cia.gov 7/20
- Apple Business · not on cia.gov 7/20
- Atlassian · not on cia.gov 7/20
- Akamai 7/20
- Drupal · not on cia.gov 6/20
- Akamai Edge DNS 5/20
- Google Fonts · not on cia.gov 5/20
- OpenAI · not on cia.gov 5/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on cia.gov 3/20
- DocuSign · not on cia.gov 3/20
- Cloudflare · not on cia.gov 3/20