Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Discord
The 20 closest group chat and VoIP alternatives to Discord, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 9 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Discord? The closest matches are Viber, telegram.org and Reddit. 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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- Sites searched
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01 · Entity
About Discord
Discord discord.gg
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 invite-based community servers with persistent channels. It also offers screen sharing, streaming and built-in activities. discord.gg is its domain for server invite links.
- 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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Home | Viber
cross-platform instant messaging voice-over-Internet Protocol application for smartphones
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American social news aggregation website and discussion portal
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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.
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Grindr: The World’s Largest Social Networking App for LGBTQ People.
Grindr is the world’s largest social networking app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people. Download Grindr today to discover, connect to, and explore the queer world around you.
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Twitch
Twitch is an interactive livestreaming service for content spanning gaming, entertainment, sports, music, and more.
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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.
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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.
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Messenger
Hang out anytime, anywhere—Messenger makes it easy and fun to stay close to your favorite people
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9GAG - Best Funny Memes and Breaking News
Your daily dose of funny memes, GIFs, videos and weird news stories. We deliver hundreds of new memes daily and much more humor anywhere you go.
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Signal >> Home
Say "hello" to a different messaging experience. An unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect.
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#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.
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Meetup | Find Local Groups, Events, and Activities Near You
Find Meetup events, join groups, or start your own. Make new friends and connect with like-minded people. Meet people near you who share your interests.
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LINE|always at your side.
More than just a messenger app. LINE is new level of communication and the very infrastructure of your life.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Tinder | Dating, Make Friends & Meet New People
With 55 billion matches to date, Tinder® is the world’s most popular dating app, making it the place to meet new people.
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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.
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to discord.gg’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
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: otSDKStub
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a562f7e5dd2920da-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS sima.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=zozWMNbMyCg4di2h
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=W3bS5jNE3UOjccTXit2Ec9uo83D0leVlfpYH04PSEvg
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
- Google Workspace 14/20
- Atlassian · not on discord.gg 11/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on discord.gg 10/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on discord.gg 10/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on discord.gg 8/20
- Stripe · not on discord.gg 6/20
- Apple Business 6/20
- Amazon SES · not on discord.gg 5/20
- Google Tag Manager 5/20
- OneTrust 5/20
- Zendesk · not on discord.gg 5/20
- DocuSign · not on discord.gg 5/20
- GlobalSign · not on discord.gg 5/20
- HubSpot · not on discord.gg 4/20
- nginx · not on discord.gg 4/20