Alternatives and competitors
Sites like curseforge.com
The 20 closest game mod hosting alternatives to curseforge.com, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 8 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to curseforge.com? The closest matches are Overwolf, GameBanana and Modrinth. 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 curseforge.com
curseforge.com
Wikidata: corporation that owns a network of gaming-related websites
Summary by Claude
CurseForge is a repository and distribution site for video game mods, addons, modpacks and resource packs, with a desktop app for installing and managing them for games such as Minecraft, World of Warcraft and others.
- Who it’s for
- PC gamers and mod creators
- Business model
- Advertising and creator rewards program
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to curseforge.com’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 curseforge.com
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to curseforge.com, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read curseforge.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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GameBanana | The Game Modding Community - Since 2001
Mods, Tutorials, Sprays, Works In Progress, Sound Mods and more for video games
Very close cos 0.903 - 02
Modrinth
Download Minecraft mods, plugins, datapacks, shaders, resourcepacks, and modpacks on Modrinth. Discover and publish projects on Modrinth with a modern, easy to use interface and API.
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Compare B2B Software, Download, & Develop Open Source & Business Software - SourceForge
SourceForge is the complete software discovery platform. SourceForge is the largest B2B software review and comparison site in the world, and features the largest business software directory, as well as free & fast open source software downloads and development.
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World of Warcraft News and Guides
The largest World of Warcraft (WoW) information site, featuring guides, news, and information on classes, gearing, professions, raids, transmog, and more.
Close cos 0.883 - 05
American crowdfunding website
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Minecraft Internet forum and fansite
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PC Gamer | THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES
British-American video game magazine
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LITEAPKS - #1 MOD APK for Android
LITEAPKS.COM is the leading reputable source for mod apk, free games and apps for Android
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NG Guard
American entertainment and social media website
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monster.com
employment website
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Free Online Games on CrazyGames | Play Now!
Play free online games at CrazyGames, the best place to play high-quality browser games. We add new games every day. Have fun!
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Steam Community
Community Hubs are collections of all the best community and official game content as rated by users.
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Welcome to Steam
Steam is the ultimate destination for playing, discussing, and creating games.
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GTA5-Mods.com - Your source for the latest GTA 5 car mods, scripts, tools and more.
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web.dev
Guidance to build modern web experiences that work on any browser.
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King.com - Play the Most Popular & Fun Games Online!
Join millions of other players and enjoy the most popular and fun games online at King.com. Enter the Kingdom and make new friends in our player community!
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video game website
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Minecraft skin website
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AI Coding Agent for Building Ambitious Software | Cursor
Built to make you extraordinarily productive, agents turn ideas into code. Accelerate development by handing off tasks to Cursor.
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SteamDB
online video game database
Close cos 0.869
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to curseforge.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones curseforge.com uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What curseforge.com is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:mailgun.org include:mail.zendesk.com include:_spf.goog…
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a562fda0c8c9dea4-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX smtp.google.com
- Email delivery
- Mailgun TXT v=spf1 include:mailgun.org include:mail.zendesk.com include:_spf.goog…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS clint.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=YpV4FwLbyGTaomY7S2kGLcoa0G_V5Pbsljnm8…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=nbfN-B1Wu0Afy7w0IpGjbZdMKv595HbELqXVw99BJnM
- Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=Kyenx5tI0r4vnMvWchIj3a9zIU7H7xBKL0g42A6G
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what curseforge.com adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Google Workspace 9/20
- Cloudflare 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS 7/20
- jQuery · not on curseforge.com 7/20
- nginx · not on curseforge.com 6/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on curseforge.com 5/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on curseforge.com 5/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on curseforge.com 5/20
- Amazon SES · not on curseforge.com 4/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on curseforge.com 4/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on curseforge.com 4/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on curseforge.com 4/20
- Atlassian · not on curseforge.com 4/20
- Bing Webmaster Tools · not on curseforge.com 3/20
- Google Fonts · not on curseforge.com 3/20