Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Discogs
The 20 closest Music database and marketplace alternatives to Discogs, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 8 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Discogs? The closest matches are bandcamp.com, Metal Archives and setlist.fm. 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 Discogs
Discogs discogs.com
Wikidata: website and database about audio recordings
Summary by Claude
A user-generated database cataloging music releases down to specific pressings and editions, combined with a marketplace where sellers list vinyl records, CDs, cassettes and other physical music formats for sale.
- Who it’s for
- Record collectors, music fans, DJs and independent music sellers
- Business model
- Marketplace transaction fees
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Discogs’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 Discogs
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Discogs, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read discogs.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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Client Challenge
American online music distributor
Very close cos 0.914 - 02
Eventbrite - Discover the Best Local Events & Things to Do
Eventbrite - Discover the Best Local Events & Things to Do
Close cos 0.893 - 03
etsy.com
American e-commerce company
Close cos 0.893 - 04
tidal.com
subscription-based music streaming service
Close cos 0.892 - 05
stubhub.com
American ticket brokering company
Close cos 0.889 - 06
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platform for building online shops
Close cos 0.890 - 07
AbeBooks | Shop for Books, Art & Collectibles
Discover a wonderful selection of rare and collectible books, used copies, signed and first editions and more, from booksellers located around the world.
Close cos 0.888 - 08
Sweetwater: Musical Instruments, Pro Audio, Accessories & More
Sweetwater is the world's leading music technology and instrument retailer, offering ✓ Highly Knowledgeable Sales Engineers, ✓ In-house Technical Support...
Close cos 0.886 - 09
Error Page | eBay
American multinational internet corporation that manages eBay.com
Close cos 0.889 - 10
online database of board games, game designers and game publishers worldwide
Close cos 0.885 - 11
Statista - The Statistics Portal for Market Data, Market Research and Market Studies
Find statistics, consumer survey results and industry studies from over 22,500 sources on over 60,000 topics on the internet's leading statistics database
Close cos 0.885 - 12
Your Trusted Marketplace for Collectible Trading Card Games - TCGplayer
Buy Magic: The Gathering Cards, Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards, Pokémon Cards, One Piece CCG, Digimon TCG, Flesh and Blood, Lorcana, CCG Supplies, and more.
Close cos 0.884 - 13
BrickLink - Buy and sell LEGO Parts, Sets and Minifigures
online marketplace for LEGO
Close cos 0.884 - 14
e-commerce crowdsourcing site where artists can upload and sell their designs
Close cos 0.885 - 15
It needs a human touch
Complete the task and we'll get you right back into Fiverr.
Close cos 0.883 - 16
Teaching Resources & Lesson Plans | TPT
World’s most popular online marketplace for original educational resources with more than four million resources available for use today.
Close cos 0.881 - 17
American multinational technology company
Close cos 0.881 - 18
online print-on-demand marketplace that was founded in 2006 that allow users to sell art on their platform
Close cos 0.882 - 19
American freelancing platform
Close cos 0.881 - 20
Ticketmaster: Buy Verified Tickets for Concerts, Sports, Theater and Events
Buy and sell tickets online for concerts, sports, theater, family and other events near you from Ticketmaster.
Close cos 0.880
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to discogs.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Discogs uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Discogs is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a562fd50f9fa9d11-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Mailgun TXT v=spf1 ip4:216.151.17.128/27 include:mailgun.org include:_spf.google.…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-466.awsdns-58.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=HcCB5FsuZFVyRQ48lx0PQhCio0hxWJilGG58cVUP0-I
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=HAV0DdFrnLUqX_rElt-qy46djfIXvl0vWWSpv…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=kXAeo90TIGtCIkK5ff1hK9rlEipjxVy6i_iA6P4FvC0
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=0e26ttkh3ohk6dgsbhu12uv19mwuuf
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Discogs adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Atlassian · not on discogs.com 16/20
- Amazon Route 53 12/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on discogs.com 12/20
- Apple Business 10/20
- GlobalSign 9/20
- Google Workspace 9/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on discogs.com 8/20
- Meta Business Suite 8/20
- DocuSign · not on discogs.com 7/20
- Zendesk · not on discogs.com 6/20
- Stripe · not on discogs.com 6/20
- Mailchimp · not on discogs.com 5/20
- Cloudflare 5/20
- Amazon SES · not on discogs.com 5/20
- Fastly · not on discogs.com 4/20