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.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
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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
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
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to edX
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to edX, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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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.
Very close cos 0.941 - 02
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!
Very close cos 0.907 - 03
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).
Very close cos 0.909 - 04
online learning platform
Very close cos 0.897 - 05
online education platform
Very close cos 0.897 - 06
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.
Very close cos 0.896 - 07
Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School
Close cos 0.893 - 08
Client Challenge
non-profit educational organization
Very close cos 0.896 - 09
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.
Very close cos 0.896 - 10
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.
Close cos 0.893 - 11
Captcha Challenge…
online studying platform
Close cos 0.888 - 12
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.
Close cos 0.889 - 13
McGraw Hill
Navigate your educational journey with McGraw Hill. We provide essential tools and resources for both instructors and students to foster effective learning.
Close cos 0.883 - 14
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.
Close cos 0.886 - 15
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.
Close cos 0.882 - 16
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.
Close cos 0.882 - 17
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!
Close cos 0.879 - 18
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.
Close cos 0.879 - 19
MEXC Exchange: Your 0-Fee Gateway to Infinite Opportunities - Trade Bitcoin, Ethereum & Most Trending Tokens
MEXC is your 0-fee gateway to infinite opportunities. Explore the world's leading cryptocurrency exchange for buying, trading, and earning crypto. Trade Bitcoin BTC, Ethereum ETH, and more than 3,000 altcoins.
Close cos 0.882 - 20
Buy Bitcoin & Crypto | Crypto Exchange, App & Wallet | OKX Europe
OKX Europe - Buy and trade BTC, ETH, XRP and more on OKX. Explore crypto, Web3 and DeFi on one global trading platform.
Close cos 0.882
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
- Contentful page source: images.ctfassets.net
- JavaScript frameworks
- Analytics
- Segment page source: cdn.segment.com/analytics.js
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: otSDKStub
- Monitoring
- New Relic page source: NREUM
- 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
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms89770774
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-73.awsdns-09.com
- 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
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what edX adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Atlassian 15/20
- Apple Business 14/20
- Microsoft 365 14/20
- OpenAI · not on edx.org 14/20
- Google Workspace 13/20
- OneTrust 12/20
- Cloudflare 12/20
- Salesforce · not on edx.org 11/20
- Meta Business Suite 10/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on edx.org 10/20
- Next.js 8/20
- React 8/20
- Google Tag Manager 8/20
- Amazon SES · not on edx.org 7/20
- DocuSign 7/20