Alternatives and competitors

Sites like edX

The 20 closest online learning (MOOC) alternatives to edX, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 21 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to edX? The closest matches are Coursera, Udacity and Codecademy. 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 edX

edX edx.org

edX | Online Courses, Certificates & Degrees from Leading Institutions

Find the online learning path for you, delivered by world-class institutions like Harvard, Google, Amazon, and more.

Wikidata: online education technology company

Top 10K · #3,702 English 21 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit edX

Summary by Claude

edX offers online courses, professional certificates, executive education, and full bachelor's and master's degree programs from universities and companies such as MIT, Harvard, and Georgia Tech, along with team training for businesses.

Who it’s for
Adult learners, students, professionals, and employers
Business model
Course, certificate and degree tuition fees; enterprise training sales

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to edX’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

PreplyKhan AcademyHarvard Business SchoolBrilliantMasterClassUdemyAluraCodecademyUdacityCoursera

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to edX

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

Only in English
  1. 01
    Coursera coursera.org Top 10K English

    Coursera | Online Courses, Certificates, & Degrees

    Learn job-ready skills with online courses, Professional Certificates, Specializations, and degrees from Google, Meta, Anthropic, DeepLearning.AI, Stanford, and more. Start learning today.

  2. 02
    Udacity udacity.com English

    Learn the Latest Tech Skills; Advance Your Career | Udacity

    Learn online and advance your career with courses in programming, data science, artificial intelligence, digital marketing, and more. Gain in-demand technical skills. Join today!

  3. 03
    Codecademy codecademy.com Top 10K English

    Learn to Code - for Free | Codecademy

    Learn the technical skills to get the job you want. Join over 50 million people choosing Codecademy to start a new career (or advance in their current one).

  4. 04
    Alura alura.com.br Top 10K Portuguese

    Black November Alura: matricule-se com até 50% de desconto!

    A Black November da Alura chegou! Aproveite o maior desconto do ano para se matricular e avançar na sua carreira tech!

  5. 05
    Udemy udemy.com Top 10K English

    online learning platform

  6. 06
    MasterClass masterclass.com English

    online education platform

  7. 07
    Brilliant brilliant.org English

    Brilliant | Your Personal Tutor for Math and Coding

    Visual, interactive tutoring in math and coding, from 5th grade through college. Master concepts in algebra, calculus, Python, computer science, and more.

  8. 08
    Harvard Business School hbs.edu Top 10K English

    Harvard Business School

    Harvard Business School

  9. 09
    Khan Academy khanacademy.org Top 10K English

    Client Challenge

    non-profit educational organization

  10. 10
    W3Schools w3schools.com Top 10K English

    W3Schools Online Web Tutorials

    Well organized and easy to understand Web building tutorials with lots of examples of how to use HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, Python, PHP, Bootstrap, Java, XML and more.

  11. 11
    Preply preply.com Top 10K English

    Preply: Learn with the best online language tutors on app & web

    Looking for a tutor? Preply is the best platform for private online lessons with a flexible payment system and affordable prices. Book your first lesson.

  12. 12
    Quizlet quizlet.com Top 10K English

    Captcha Challenge…

    online studying platform

  13. 13
    GeeksforGeeks geeksforgeeks.org Top 10K English

    GeeksforGeeks | Your All-in-One Learning Portal

    Your All-in-One Learning Portal. It contains well written, well thought and well explained computer science and programming articles, quizzes and practice/competitive programming/company interview Questions.

  14. 14

    Azure WAF

    Azure WAF

  15. 15
    McGraw-Hill Education mheducation.com Top 10K English

    McGraw Hill

    Navigate your educational journey with McGraw Hill. We provide essential tools and resources for both instructors and students to foster effective learning.

  16. 16
    IXL ixl.com Top 10K English

    IXL | Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, and Spanish

    IXL is the world's most popular subscription-based learning site for K–12. Used by over 18 million students, IXL provides personalized learning in more than 20,000 topics, covering math, language arts, science, social studies, and Spanish. Interactive questions, awards, and certificates keep kids motivated as they master skills.

  17. 17
    Moodle moodle.com Top 10K English

    Discover Moodle — the world's most popular LMS

    Build an effective, engaging learning ecosystem with Moodle, the most customisable and popular LMS for education, enterprise, and public sector organisations.

  18. 18
    Teachers Pay Teachers teacherspayteachers.com Top 10K English

    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.

  19. 19
    Blackboard blackboard.com Top 10K English

    AI-Powered LMS for Transformational Teaching & Learning | Blackboard

    Discover Blackboard's AI-powered LMS designed for higher education, businesses, and government - enabling personalized learning, accessibility, and better outcomes worldwide. Contact us!

  20. 20
    Pluralsight pluralsight.com English

    Tech & IT Learning Platform for Teams | Pluralsight

    Trusted by 23,000+ organizations, Pluralsight is the online tech learning platform for building AI, cloud, data, and security skills with courses and labs.

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

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

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

Built with

CMS
JavaScript frameworks
  • Next.js page source: /_next/static/
  • React implied by Next.js (page source: /_next/static/)
Analytics
  • Segment page source: cdn.segment.com/analytics.js
Tag managers
Cookie consent
Monitoring
CDN
  • Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: 32uMZm07ZgimjDNZcrNVvnRUfoxh_bpIBgDKBtw68nmALgeZodmkWw==
  • Cloudflare header cf-ray: a563188f9af50ecf-FRA
Hosting
  • WP Engine header x-powered-by: WP Engine Headless Platform
Email hosting
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=0614d0e44da9d4b72a75d19e9138eb0052991fb2a…
  • Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=6VfkC2MXgvez6NHJ
  • Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=xpq-aB5aXpxCKMr7r3eDPHyz+H8uPB16jIppdml…
  • DocuSign TXT docusign=f1e936d4-bf65-4aed-8c0b-59630d21e09c
  • Dropbox TXT dropbox-domain-verification=9dvz1ju53nbf
  • Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=tVFyMKACOBTnEVoW-XJ0jbunNP7bDxPLxUZpGs9j9go
  • Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=h2gg5zwnyax0dj0jyo4aafdtkpiiyu
  • Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_L9I5Fxqkv63ZPy63F1sHvK

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