Alternatives and competitors
Sites like eBay
The 20 closest online marketplace alternatives to eBay, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 7 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to eBay? The closest matches are Catawiki, Amazon and Autotrader. 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
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- Query
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01 · Entity
About eBay
eBay ebay.co.uk
Error Page | eBay
Wikidata: American multinational internet corporation that manages eBay.com
Summary by Claude
UK version of eBay, an online marketplace where individuals and businesses sell new and used goods to buyers through auctions or fixed-price "Buy It Now" listings.
- Who it’s for
- UK consumers and sellers
- Business model
- Seller fees and commissions, advertising
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to eBay’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 eBay
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to eBay, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read ebay.co.uk’s homepage (HTTP 403), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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automotive classified advertising business
Very close cos 0.921 - 02
American multinational technology company
Very close cos 0.918 - 03
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.
Very close cos 0.915 - 04
etsy.com
American e-commerce company
Very close cos 0.916 - 05
Eventbrite - Discover the Best Local Events & Things to Do
Eventbrite - Discover the Best Local Events & Things to Do
- Google Search Console
- Meta Business Suite
- Bing Webmaster Tools
- Amazon CloudFront
- Google Workspace
- Next.js
Very close cos 0.911 - 06
Poshmark: Buy and sell fashion, home decor, beauty & more
Buy, sell, and discover fashion, home decor, beauty, and more
Very close cos 0.912 - 07
Vinted | Sell and buy clothes, shoes and accessories
One community, thousands of brands, and a whole lot of second-hand style. Ready to get started? Here’s how it works.
Very close cos 0.909 - 08
Wish | Shop and Save
Discover affordable items for your home and life needs. Enjoy our money back guarantee, frequent discounts, flat rate shipping (select markets), and more.
Very close cos 0.910 - 09
viator.com
online travel marketplace
Very close cos 0.910 - 10
online marketplace
Very close cos 0.909 - 11
BrickLink - Buy and sell LEGO Parts, Sets and Minifigures
online marketplace for LEGO
Very close cos 0.905 - 12
Kijiji - Buy, Sell & Save with Canada's #1 Local Marketplaces | Kijiji
Visit Kijiji Classifieds to buy, sell, or trade almost anything! New and used items, cars, real estate, jobs, services, vacation rentals, and more virtually anywhere in Canada.
Very close cos 0.907 - 13
leboncoin.fr
French classified advertisements website
Very close cos 0.906 - 14
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platform for building online shops
Very close cos 0.904 - 15
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.
Very close cos 0.902 - 16
American online electronics retailer
Very close cos 0.901 - 17
Polish retail company
Very close cos 0.901 - 18
allegro.pl
online shopping and e-commerce marketplace platform
Very close cos 0.900 - 19
Rightmove - UK's number one property website for properties for sale and to rent
UK's number one property website for properties for sale and to rent
Very close cos 0.903 - 20
Human Verification
American real estate brokerage
Very close cos 0.901
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to ebay.co.uk’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones eBay uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What eBay is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=AF4B3885FF78E4FD44E34EE89BD5712D9AA6E19CAD3DC4ECB…
- CDN
- Akamai header server: AkamaiGHost
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms76522850
- DNS hosting
- NS1 NS dns2.p06.nsone.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=25164687e15a57a865a83d05e79e15242cfbfbbca…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=UqLMwZhEy3s5KDssJ4tAASXierUNOjaDYHsvSNj4alM
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=t8b4y8sqze4oqwvgb3wp1dyod2vyyh
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what eBay adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Microsoft 365 16/20
- Google Workspace · not on ebay.co.uk 12/20
- Meta Business Suite 12/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on ebay.co.uk 12/20
- Atlassian · not on ebay.co.uk 11/20
- Apple Business · not on ebay.co.uk 11/20
- Amazon SES · not on ebay.co.uk 9/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on ebay.co.uk 7/20
- OpenAI · not on ebay.co.uk 6/20
- Zendesk · not on ebay.co.uk 6/20
- Miro · not on ebay.co.uk 6/20
- Akamai 5/20
- Cloudflare · not on ebay.co.uk 5/20
- DocuSign · not on ebay.co.uk 5/20
- Mailchimp · not on ebay.co.uk 4/20