Alternatives and competitors

Sites like flic.kr

The 20 closest photo sharing alternatives to flic.kr, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 7 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to flic.kr? The closest matches are Flickr, 500px and imgsrc.ru. 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 flic.kr

flic.kr

Flickr | The best place to be a photographer online.

The nicest place on the internet is here for you: inspiration, community, creativity, art, passion, and a heaping scoop of weirdness await you. Join for free.

Top 10K · #3,120 English 7 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit flic.kr

Summary by Claude

Flickr is a photo hosting and sharing service where photographers store, organize and display photos, get feedback from a community, and browse a large collection of Creative Commons-licensed images. flic.kr is its short-link domain.

Who it’s for
Amateur and professional photographers
Business model
Subscriptions (Flickr Pro) and advertising

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to flic.kr’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

SlideShareinstagram.comDeviantArtImgurMediaFireWeTransferSmugMugimgsrc.ru500pxFlickr

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to flic.kr

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

Only in English
  1. 01
    Flickr flickr.com Top 1K

    American image and video hosting website

  2. 02
    500px 500px.com Top 10K English

    photo sharing website

  3. 03
    imgsrc.ru Top 10K English

    Unlimited photo hosting @iMGSRC.RU

    Your free and unlimited host iMGSRC.RU presents Unlimited photo hosting

  4. 04
    SmugMug smugmug.com Top 10K

    paid image sharing, image hosting service, and online video platform

  5. 05
    Flipboard flipboard.com Top 10K English

    Flipboard: Your Social Magazine

    One place for all the stories you care about. Join the Flipboard community to discover and share what inspires you.

  6. 06
    WeTransfer wetransfer.com Top 10K English

    WeTransfer | Skicka stora filer snabbt

    Det enkla, snabba och säkra sättet att skicka filer till hela världen utan ett konto. Dela filer, foton och videor idag helt gratis.

  7. 07
    Shutterfly shutterfly.com Top 10K English

    Shutterfly | Photo Books, Cards, Prints, Wall Art, Gifts, Wedding

    Shop Shutterfly for custom photo books, prints, cards, invitations, gifts, wall art, calendars, and more. Personalize your favorite moments with high-quality, meaningful photo products.

  8. 08
    MediaFire mediafire.com Top 1K English

    File sharing and storage made simple

    MediaFire is a simple to use free service that lets you put all your photos, documents, music, and video in a single place so you can access them anywhere and share them everywhere.

  9. 09
    Imgur imgur.com Top 1K English

    Imgur: The magic of the Internet

    Find, rate and share the best memes and images. Discover the magic of the Internet at Imgur.

  10. 10
    DeviantArt deviantart.com Top 1K English

    DeviantArt - The Largest Online Art Gallery and Community

    DeviantArt is where art and community thrive. Explore over 650 million pieces of art while connecting to fellow artists and art enthusiasts.

  11. 11
    instagram.com Top 100

    photo and video sharing social network owned by Meta Platforms

  12. 12
    SlideShare slideshare.net Top 1K English

    Client Challenge

    American hosting service, owned by Scribd, for professional content including presentations, infographics, documents, and videos

  13. 13
    PBase pbase.com Top 10K

    photo sharing website

  14. 14
    Postimages postimg.cc Top 10K English

    Postimages — free image hosting / image upload

    Provides free image uploading and hosting integration for forums. Free picture hosting and photo sharing for websites and blogs.

  15. 15
    ImageShack imageshack.com Top 10K English

    ImageShack: Image Hosting & Photo Sharing

    Image hosting and photo storage for your high-res photos. Upload, organize into albums and share anywhere with ImageShack. Plans from $3.99/month.

  16. 16
    Picsart picsart.com Top 10K English

    Picsart: The AI Creative Platform

    Picsart is an all-in-one creative platform with a wide selection of free AI design tools. Create content fast with expert-crafted templates, built-in asset libraries, and generative AI tools.

  17. 17
    Creative Commons creativecommons.org Top 1K English

    Building tools for shared knowledge - Creative Commons

    family of public copyright licenses for allowing free use of a work

  18. 18
    PhotoFolio® photofolio.com Top 10K English

    PhotoFolio®: Design A Website

    Award winning websites for Professional Photographers. The only completely customizable template in the world.

  19. 19
    Fur Affinity furaffinity.net Top 10K English

    Index -- Fur Affinity [dot] net

    Fur Affinity | For all things fluff, scaled, and feathered!

  20. 20
    Fiverr fiverr.com Top 1K English

    It needs a human touch

    Complete the task and we'll get you right back into Fiverr.

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

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

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

Built with

Website builders
  • Webflow page source: data-wf-page=
Fonts
Analytics
Tag managers
Cookie consent
  • TrustArc page source: consent.trustarc.com
CDN
  • Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: yGwNL1VUcOH8pIsoLjBUH3Wcycu_4NZdzCQ4uF8c5RPEqgJ43s3gVw==
DNS hosting

Stack changes

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Competitors by meaning, stacks from the source. Data from public homepages and DNS.

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