Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Hurricane Electric

The 20 closest IP transit alternatives to Hurricane Electric, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 4 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Hurricane Electric? The closest matches are transip.nl, ifconfig.me and Internet Systems Consortium. 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 Hurricane Electric

Hurricane Electric he.net

Hurricane Electric Internet Services - Internet Backbone and Colocation Provider

Wikidata: global telecommunications provider

Top 10K · #1,203 4 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit Hurricane Electric

Summary by Claude

Hurricane Electric operates a global Internet backbone selling IP transit with native dual-stack IPv6 and IPv4 and BGP. It also provides data center colocation in Fremont and San Jose, California, along with free networking tools such as an IPv6 certification and a network map.

Who it’s for
ISPs, network operators, enterprises
Business model
Transit and colocation fees

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Hurricane Electric’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

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03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Hurricane Electric

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

  1. 01
    transip.nl Top 10K Dutch

    Hosting Provider | Domeinen Webhosting VPS. Own it / TransIP

    Internet voor elk idee ✓ Hosting provider ✓ Grootste registrar van Nederland! ✓ Hosting vanaf € 1,00 p/m ✓ Meer dan 150.000 klanten ✓ Deskundige helpdesk.

  2. 02
    ifconfig.me Top 10K English

    What Is My IP Address? - ifconfig.me

    Get my IP Address

  3. 03

    development and dissemination of internet software and tools

  4. 04
    IP ip.sb Top 10K English

    IP Address Lookup / IPv4 / IPv6 - IP.SB

    IP.SB shows your public IPv4 and IPv6 address, hostname, ISP, ASN and location, with a free IP geolocation API.

  5. 05
    IP Echo ipecho.net Top 10K

    IP Echo Service

  6. 06

    American information technology company

  7. 07
    Island island.io Top 10K English

    Island | The Enterprise Agentic Control Plane | AI, Network, Data Protection

    Govern human and AI workflows with Island’s Enterprise Agentic Control Plane. Streamline ZTNA, enforce browser DLP, and optimize digital experiences.

  8. 08
    iiNet iinet.net.au Top 10K English

    Australia's Speedy Internet & Mobile Services | iiNet

    Australian internet service provider

  9. 09
    HashiCorp hashicorp.com Top 10K English

    Vercel Security Checkpoint

    American software company

  10. 10
    Orange orange.com Top 10K English

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    French multinational telecommunications enterprise

  11. 11
    Cloudflare cloudflare.com Top 100 English

    Cloudflare: Build for the agent era

    Welcome to Cloudflare - Powering the next generation of applications

  12. 12
    NetCologne netcologne.de Top 10K German

    Internet, Glasfaser & DSL für dein Zuhause | NetCologne

    Dein Internetanbieter aus Köln ✓ Glasfaser & DSL für jedes Veedel ✓ starke Tarife, regionaler Service & stabiles Netz ✓ Internet jetzt prüfen & Tarif finden!

  13. 13
    ipify.org Top 1K English

    ipify - A Simple Public IP Address API

    ipify API is a simple public IP address API, easy enough to integrate into any application in seconds.

  14. 14
    Fortinet fortinet.com Top 10K

    network security corporation

  15. 15
    Patch patch.com Top 10K English

    Patch - Everything Local: Breaking News, Events, Discussions

    The best breaking news, stories, and events from the Patch network of local news sites

  16. 16
    Selectel selectel.ru Top 1K

    IT-инфраструктура для бизнеса от облачного провайдера Selectel, аренда IaaS и PaaS

    Арендуйте IT-инфраструктуру в дата-центрах Москвы и Петербурга. Комплексные IaaS и PaaS-решения для разных категорий бизнеса: от индивидуальных предпринимателей до крупных корпораций

  17. 17
    Lumen savvis.net Top 10K English

    AI-Ready Networking & Secure Cloud Solutions | Lumen Technologies

    Power your business with our global fiber network. We provide secure networking, edge cloud and AI-ready infrastructure to connect people, data and apps.

  18. 18
    Schneider Electric se.com Top 10K English

    Schneider Electric Global | Your Energy Technology Partner

    As a global specialist in energy management, automation and digitalization in more than 100 countries, we offer integrated energy technology solutions across multiple market segments. | Schneider Electric

  19. 19
    Free IP API freeipapi.com Top 10K English

    Free & Fast IP Geolocation API (JSON & XML) - Free IP API

    Free, Fast and Reliable IP Geolocation, Countries, Timezones and Phone codes API for commercial and non-commercial usage, Available in JSON and XML formats.

  20. 20
    Scaleway scaleway.com English

    European Cloud & AI. | Scaleway

    Build on a secure, transparent, and fast-moving cloud & AI platform built for what’s next.

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

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

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

Built with

Analytics
Advertising
Web servers
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)

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