Alternatives and competitors
Sites like drugs.com
The 20 closest drug information reference alternatives to drugs.com, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 7 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to drugs.com? The closest matches are Healthline, Everyday Health and Medscape. 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
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 22 ms
01 · Entity
About drugs.com
drugs.com
Wikidata: online pharmaceutical encyclopedia
Summary by Claude
Online drug information reference with monographs on prescription and over-the-counter medications, side effects, dosage, drug interactions and pill identification.
- Who it’s for
- Patients, consumers and healthcare professionals
- Business model
- Advertising
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to drugs.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 drugs.com
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to drugs.com, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read drugs.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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Healthline: Medical information and health advice you can trust.
We're committed to being your source for expert health guidance. Come to us in your pursuit of wellness.
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Everyday Health: Trusted Medical Information, Expert Health Advice, News, Tools, and Resources
Everyday Health inspires and empowers people to live their healthiest lives, every day, through trusted, medically reviewed information and expert health advice from the nation's leading healthcare providers and patient advocates. Learn more about health
Very close cos 0.912 - 03
Today on Medscape
educational website (1995-)
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WebMD - Better information. Better health.
The leading source for trustworthy and timely health and medical news and information. Providing credible health information, supportive community, and educational services by blending award-winning expertise in content, community services, expert commentary, and medical review.
Very close cos 0.902 - 05
Simple Page
health website
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Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus - The Free Dictionary
The World's most comprehensive free online dictionary, thesaurus, and encyclopedia with synonyms, definitions, idioms, abbreviations, and medical, financial, legal specialized dictionaries
Very close cos 0.898 - 07
Walgreens: Pharmacy, Health & Wellness, Photo & More for You
Your go-to for Pharmacy, Health & Wellness and Photo products. Refill prescriptions online, order items for delivery or store pickup, and create Photo Gifts.
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Medical News | Medical Articles
Medical News and articles you can trust from around the world. All content is written and reviewed by qualified health, medical and scientific experts.
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medRxiv.org - the preprint server for Health Sciences
medRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by openRxiv, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing scientific communication
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Medical and health information | MedicalNewsToday
Medical news and health news headlines posted throughout the day, every day
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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
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Captcha Challenge…
online studying platform
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Liquipedia
esports encyclopedia
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MedlinePlus - Health Information from the National Library of Medicine
Find information on health conditions, wellness issues, and more in easy-to-read language on MedlinePlus, the up-to-date, trusted health information site from the NIH and the National Library of Medicine.
- Amazon Web Services
- Bing Webmaster Tools
- Amazon CloudFront
- Google Search Console
- Google Tag Manager
- jQuery
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Home - Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services | CMS
United States federal agency
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | CDC
United States government public health agency
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American media company
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Internet Meme Database | Know Your Meme
Know Your Meme is a website dedicated to documenting Internet phenomena: viral videos, image macros, catchphrases, web celebs and more.
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Psychology Today: Health, Help, Happiness + Find a Therapist
View the latest from the world of psychology: from behavioral research to practical guidance on relationships, mental health and addiction. Find help from our directory of therapists, psychologists and counselors.
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to drugs.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones drugs.com uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What drugs.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 a:list.drugs.com include:amazonses.com include:_spf.google.com…
- CDN
- Akamai header server: AkamaiGHost
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 a:list.drugs.com include:amazonses.com include:_spf.google.com…
- DNS hosting
- Akamai Edge DNS NS a18-65.akam.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=wrvb0d1j9zmo8k8xmix15o2qby5yca
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-QIstIypN2ja5j4FqRnLbKRrl
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what drugs.com adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on drugs.com 19/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on drugs.com 15/20
- Google Workspace 12/20
- Meta Business Suite 10/20
- OneTrust · not on drugs.com 9/20
- Cloudflare · not on drugs.com 8/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on drugs.com 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on drugs.com 7/20
- Atlassian · not on drugs.com 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on drugs.com 6/20
- Adobe · not on drugs.com 5/20
- Apple Business · not on drugs.com 5/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on drugs.com 5/20
- GlobalSign · not on drugs.com 5/20
- PHP · not on drugs.com 5/20
- DocuSign · not on drugs.com 4/20