Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Ecosia

The 20 closest web search engine alternatives to Ecosia, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 11 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Ecosia? The closest matches are DuckDuckGo, Startpage.com and Google. 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 Ecosia

Ecosia ecosia.org

Ecosia Firewall

Wikidata: web search engine and browser

Top 10K · #1,008 11 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit Ecosia

Summary by Claude

Ecosia is a web search engine and browser that uses its advertising profits to fund tree planting and other environmental projects. Results come from Bing, Google, and its own European index.

Who it’s for
General internet users, especially environmentally conscious ones
Business model
Advertising

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Ecosia’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

YahooOxylabsExcite エキサイトiNaturalistMicrosoft BingYour Online ChoicesQwantGoogleStartpage.comDuckDuckGo

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Ecosia

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Ecosia, thumbs down if it isn’t.

We can’t read ecosia.org’s homepage (HTTP 403), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.

  1. 01
    DuckDuckGo duckduckgo.com Top 1K English

    DuckDuckGo - Protection. Privacy. Peace of mind.

    The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.

  2. 02
    Startpage.com startpage.com English

    privacy-focused online search engine

  3. 03
    Google google.com Top 100 German

    Google

    search engine by Google LLC

  4. 04
    Qwant qwant.com English

    Qwant - The search engine that values you as a user, not as a product

    Fast, reliable answers and still in trust: Qwant does not store your search data, does not sell your personal data and is hosted in Europe.

  5. 05
    Your Online Choices youronlinechoices.com Top 10K

    Your Online Choices | EDAA

  6. 06
    Microsoft Bing bing.com Top 100 English

    Search - Microsoft Bing

    Search with Microsoft Bing and use the power of AI to find information, explore webpages, images, videos, maps, and more. A smart search engine for the forever curious.

  7. 07
    iNaturalist inaturalist.org Top 10K English

    A Community for Naturalists · iNaturalist

    iNaturalist is a social network for naturalists! Record your observations of plants and animals, share them with friends and researchers, and learn about the natural world.

  8. 08
    Excite エキサイト excite.co.jp Top 10K Japanese

    Excite エキサイト

    エキサイトは、話題のニュースや人気ブログ、格安プロバイダなどを展開する便利で安心のポータルサイトです。芸能や音楽、料理や育児の情報も幅広く発信しています。

  9. 09
    Oxylabs oxylabs.io Top 10K English

    Oxylabs – High Quality Proxy Service & Web Search API for AI

    Access fresh, reliable web data at any scale with APIs built for AI and premium proxies. Power agents and applications with 177M+ IPs and robust infrastructure.

  10. 10

    ERROR: The request could not be satisfied

    agency in the United States Federal Government

  11. 11
    163jiasu.com Top 10K

    网易

  12. 12
    Infoseek[インフォシーク] infoseek.co.jp Top 10K Japanese

    Infoseek[インフォシーク] - 楽天が運営するニュースサイト

    Infoseek(インフォシーク)は、社会、経済、国際、芸能、スポーツ、IT、天気等の最新ニュースを配信しています。楽天ポイントが獲得出来るお小遣いコンテンツ(ポイ活)やお得な情報も充実しています。

  13. 13
    DigitalOcean digitalocean.com Top 1K English

    AI-Native Cloud | DigitalOcean

    Run AI products in production with a unified stack for agents, inference, and cloud—built for control, performance, and economics at scale.

  14. 14
    Greenpeace greenpeace.org Top 10K English

    Greenpeace

    Greenpeace

  15. 15
    Yahoo yahoo.com Top 100 English

    Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos

    Latest news coverage, email, free stock quotes, live scores and video are just the beginning. Discover more every day at Yahoo!

  16. 16
    YourAdChoices.com youradchoices.com Top 10K English

    YourAdChoices.com | Welcome to YourAdChoices.com

  17. 17
    EPA epa.gov Top 1K English

    U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | US EPA

    Website of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). EPA's mission is to protect human health and the environment.

  18. 18
    NetEase netease.com Top 1K

    Chinese Internet technology company

  19. 19
    so.com Top 10K

    360搜索,SO靠谱

    360搜索是安全、精准、可信赖的新一代搜索引擎,依托于360母品牌的安全优势,全面拦截各类钓鱼欺诈等恶意网站,提供更放心的搜索服务。 360搜索 so靠谱。

  20. 20
    ChinaZ.com chinaz.com Top 10K

    站长之家 - 站长资讯-我们致力于为中文网站提供动力!

    站长之家(中国站长站)为个人站长与企业网络提供全面的站长资讯、源代码程序下载、海量建站素材、强大的搜索优化辅助工具、网络产品设计与运营理念以及一站式网络解决方案,十年来我们一直致力为中文网站提供动力。

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to ecosia.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Ecosia uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What Ecosia is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

CDN
Email hosting
Email delivery
  • Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com include:shops.sh…
  • Brevo TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com include:shops.sh…
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=GrogbDcC7Eb5pojL
  • Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=KiT5eBoXciaZ0NwRpcjai8ZXFFrfrFvO6DAaoWG…
  • Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=Mc6Ea_rdAPNCxS8Mtp4Yoi_HudQ4D0B2PA0fjueETx0
  • Miro TXT miro-verification=65b1290542813155123e075fced38ec9b3eaf37e
  • OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-JYWeCVIxuFjen1ewDvJEvy62
  • Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=zG8dhszdinFZxE0Fr2YviOVQ1eBXk81CcSLsIGPI

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