Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Discord
The 20 closest Instant messaging and VoIP alternatives to Discord, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 15 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Discord? The closest matches are WhatsApp, telegram.org and Viber. 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 Discord
Discord discord.com
Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games
Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.
Wikidata: instant messaging and VoIP software
Summary by Claude
Discord is a voice, video and text chat service where users talk privately or in invitation-based community servers with persistent chat rooms and voice channels. It also supports screen streaming and in-chat activities, on desktop, mobile, console and web.
- Who it’s for
- Gamers, friend groups and online communities
- Business model
- Subscriptions (Nitro) and in-app purchases
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Discord’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 Discord
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Discord, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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WhatsApp | Secure and Reliable Free Private Messaging and Calling
Use WhatsApp Messenger to stay in touch with friends and family. WhatsApp is free and offers simple, secure, reliable messaging and calling, available on phones all over the world.
Very close cos 0.899 - 02 Very close cos 0.896
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Home | Viber
cross-platform instant messaging voice-over-Internet Protocol application for smartphones
Close cos 0.892 - 04
Live Chat Software with AI by Text | LiveChat.com
Text is live chat software for your website with an AI Agent that answers 24/7. Qualify leads and track sales from chats. Start your free 14-day trial.
Close cos 0.885 - 05
Messenger
Hang out anytime, anywhere—Messenger makes it easy and fun to stay close to your favorite people
Close cos 0.884 - 06
Twitch
Twitch is an interactive livestreaming service for content spanning gaming, entertainment, sports, music, and more.
Close cos 0.883 - 07
One platform to connect | Zoom
Modernize workflows with Zoom's trusted collaboration tools: including video meetings, Zoom Chat, VoIP phone, webinars, whiteboard, contact center, and events.
Close cos 0.882 - 08
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.
Close cos 0.883 - 09
Tango Live - Live Stream & Video Chat
Tango is your free video chat and live streaming platform to meet new people, stream live, and connect in real time, anytime. Join now and start chatting.
Close cos 0.879 - 10
Signal >> Home
Say "hello" to a different messaging experience. An unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect.
Close cos 0.879 - 11
American social news aggregation website and discussion portal
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YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Close cos 0.881 - 13
WeChat - Connects with over 1 billion users | Chats · Calls · Life Services
WeChat is a social communication app serving over 1 billion users, supporting free chat, HD voice and video calls, Moments, and mobile payments, making communication and life more convenient.
Close cos 0.878 - 14
RingCentral: The Voice of Your Business
Power the voice of your business with RingCentral Agentic Voice AI, including AI Receptionist (AIR), AI Virtual Assistant (AVA), & AI Conversation Expert (ACE).
Close cos 0.879 - 15
#1 in audience engagement and community growth | Disqus
More publishers trust us to engage, grow, and understand their audiences than any other. Build your on-site community with Disqus.
Close cos 0.875 - 16
Free screen recorder for Mac and PC | Loom
Best free online screen recording tool with advanced video editing and video storage trusted by over 22 million people and easy sharing from Loom.com.
Close cos 0.874 - 17
tawk.to - Free Live Chat Software for Your Website
One free inbox for all your customer channels. Live chat, ticketing, knowledge base, AI assist, and CRM — all in one place. Trusted by 6M+ businesses.
Close cos 0.878 - 19
One platform for every customer interaction | CM.com
Behind every customer moment is a conversation that just works. CM.com connects messaging, marketing, service and payments on one shared context.
Close cos 0.877 - 20
LINE|always at your side.
More than just a messenger app. LINE is new level of communication and the very infrastructure of your life.
Close cos 0.875
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to discord.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Discord uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Discord is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Website builders
- Webflow page source: data-wf-page=
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Marketing automation
- HubSpot TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:sendg…
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:sendg…
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: otSDKStub
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a562f8039a8699cd-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:sendg…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS sima.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=UP89cBit9taWldL9
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=JNe2Ze7P8p623k8f7xRaHDyQWb6VzLxjFga1tu8…
- DocuSign TXT docusign=90632817-c176-45ac-9297-96916059c0c5
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=P3cQmz_2xQ17u5qOBHf7JIAYGq3HzDq0UtEkbOR6ZjQ
- Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=hb2Jt7Z5kT0NqJOuGUM2P6L3ZihqWD3wR17JuECt
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Discord adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on discord.com 13/20
- Atlassian 13/20
- Google Workspace 12/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on discord.com 8/20
- Stripe · not on discord.com 8/20
- Apple Business 8/20
- OneTrust 7/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on discord.com 6/20
- Google Tag Manager 6/20
- Proofpoint · not on discord.com 5/20
- Amazon SES · not on discord.com 5/20
- HubSpot 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS 5/20
- DocuSign 5/20
- Zoom · not on discord.com 5/20