Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Facebook
The 20 closest social networking alternatives to Facebook, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 3 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Facebook? The closest matches are LinkedIn, instagram.com and ResearchGate. 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
- 101 ms
01 · Entity
About Facebook
Facebook facebook.com
Wikidata: American online social media and social networking service
Summary by Claude
Social networking service where users create profiles, connect with friends, share posts, photos and videos, join groups, and message each other; businesses run pages and targeted ads.
- Who it’s for
- General public and advertisers
- Business model
- Advertising
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Facebook’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 Facebook
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Facebook, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read facebook.com’s homepage (robots.txt disallows our crawler), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
- 01
LinkedIn: Log In or Sign Up
1 billion members | Manage your professional identity. Build and engage with your professional network. Access knowledge, insights and opportunities.
Very close cos 0.934 - 02 Very close cos 0.926
- 03
ResearchGate - Temporarily Unavailable
commercial scientific social network
Very close cos 0.919 - 04
Featured Content on Myspace
Featured Content on Myspace
Very close cos 0.913 - 05 Very close cos 0.909
- 06
American social news aggregation website and discussion portal
Very close cos 0.907 - 07
VK.com | VK
Very close cos 0.905 - 08
promotion & networking platform for digital designers and creatives
Very close cos 0.903 - 09
TikTok - Make Your Day
video-focused social media platform
Very close cos 0.901 - 10
Горячее – самые интересные и обсуждаемые посты | Пикабу
Пикабу – это уютное информационно-развлекательное сообщество, где любой желающий может опубликовать пост. Истории из жизни, свежие шутки и мемы, познавательные статьи, забавные фото и видео, интересные комментарии. Если другим пользователям понравится ваша история, ее увидят сотни тысяч людей.
Very close cos 0.901 - 11
Goodreads | Meet your next favorite book
Find and read more books you’ll love, and keep track of the books you want to read. Be part of the world’s largest community of book lovers on Goodreads.
Very close cos 0.897 - 12
ShareThis | Share Buttons | Website Tools | Behavioral Intelligence
Discover how social sharing tools can drive traffic and help you understand consumer intent for better targeting and personalization.
- Google Search Console
- Amazon CloudFront
- Google Analytics
- Google Fonts
- Google Tag Manager
- Google Workspace
Very close cos 0.897 - 13
Meetup | Find Local Groups, Events, and Activities Near You
Find Meetup events, join groups, or start your own. Make new friends and connect with like-minded people. Meet people near you who share your interests.
Close cos 0.894 - 14
photo sharing website
Very close cos 0.896 - 15
VK.com | VK
social networking service from Russia
Very close cos 0.895 - 16 Very close cos 0.894
- 17
豆瓣
提供图书、电影、音乐唱片的推荐、评论和价格比较，以及城市独特的文化生活。
Close cos 0.894 - 18
product discovery website
Very close cos 0.895 - 19 Close cos 0.893
- 20 fotostrana.ru Top 10K
Фотострана — знакомства, чат, игры | 22M+ пользователей
Фотострана — №1 соцсеть знакомств! 22M+ пользователей, 25M+ фото, бесплатный чат, игры, конкурсы. Любовь и флирт рядом!
Very close cos 0.894
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to facebook.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Facebook uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Facebook is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Marketing automation
- HubSpot TXT hubspot-developer-verification=MzQ2OTc4NWYtNDNmNS00ZmFlLWE3YTUtMDEwOT…
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=A2WZWCNQHrGV_TWwKh6KHY90tY0SHZo_RnyMJoDaG0s
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=y7isfmi3kzyg1r4wophh9vyb6pgbda
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Facebook adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace · not on facebook.com 14/20
- Atlassian · not on facebook.com 9/20
- Meta Business Suite 8/20
- Apple Business · not on facebook.com 7/20
- GlobalSign · not on facebook.com 6/20
- Zendesk · not on facebook.com 5/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on facebook.com 5/20
- Yandex Webmaster · not on facebook.com 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on facebook.com 5/20
- DocuSign · not on facebook.com 4/20
- PHP · not on facebook.com 4/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on facebook.com 4/20
- Cloudflare · not on facebook.com 3/20
- Miro · not on facebook.com 3/20
- Adobe · not on facebook.com 3/20