Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Helsinki
The 20 closest higher education alternatives to Helsinki, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 4 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Helsinki? The closest matches are University of Oslo, University of Hamburg and uni-kiel.de. 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
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- Query
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01 · Entity
About Helsinki
Helsinki helsinki.fi
Wikidata: capital and most populous city of Finland
Summary by Claude
Official website of the University of Helsinki, Finland's largest university, with information on degree programmes, admissions, research, faculties and services for students and staff. (The City of Helsinki uses hel.fi, not this domain.).
- Who it’s for
- Prospective and current students, researchers, staff
- Business model
- Public funding and tuition
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Helsinki’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 Helsinki
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Helsinki, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read helsinki.fi’s homepage (robots.txt disallows our crawler), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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Forsiden - Universitetet i Oslo
Universitetet i Oslo er det eldste og høyest rangerte universitetet i Norge. Universitetet har over 26 000 studenter og 7000 ansatte. UiO har ledende forskningsmiljøer og landets bredeste studietilbud.
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UHH : University of Hamburg
Discover the University of Hamburg – a top research university in Germany. Explore study programs research strengths and international options at UHH.
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Kiel University (CAU)
Einzige Volluniversität und wissenschaftliches Zentrum von Schleswig-Holstein. 27000 Studierende, rund 3700 Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter.
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Making sure you're not a bot!
Wir forschen, lehren und arbeiten für die und mit der Gesellschaft. Frei. Unabhängig. Verantwortungsvoll. Mutig und engagiert. Vielfältig und offen. Geschichtsbewusst und zukunftsorientiert. Exzellent. Wir sind die Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU).
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Universität Zürich | Universität Zürich | UZH
Die Universität Zürich gehört zu den besten Forschungsuniversitäten Europas und bietet das breiteste Angebot an Studienfächern in der Schweiz.
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The University of Iowa
Join a global community of renowned artists, pioneering scientists, and faculty dedicated to student success at the University of Iowa.
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University of Bologna
university in Bologna, Italy
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University of Bonn
The University of Excellence in Bonn is one of Germany's top universities. Study and research at one of the largest and best research-led universities in Germany.
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public research university in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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public research university in Hong Kong established in 1911
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Start | Lunds universitet
Lunds universitet grundades 1666 och rankas återkommande som ett av världens 100 främsta lärosäten. Här finns cirka 46 000 studenter och mer än 8 000 medarbetare.
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college and university system in the U.S. state of Hawaiʻi
Close cos 0.880 - 14 uni-heidelberg.de Top 10K
Heidelberg University - Zukunft seit 1386
public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Welcome to the University at Buffalo - University at Buffalo
Explore New York's flagship. The University at Buffalo, the top public university in the state, combines superior academics with true affordability.
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public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan
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HSE University
HSE is one of the top universities in Russia and the leader in Eastern Europe and Eurasia in economics and social sciences
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University of California, Berkeley: Home
UC Berkeley pushes the boundaries of knowledge, challenges convention and expands opportunity to create the leaders of tomorrow.
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Home | Goethe University Frankfurt
Discover everything about Goethe University Frankfurt: course offerings, research, campus life, and services for students and researchers.
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Universität zu Köln: University of Cologne
The University of Cologne is a university with the classic range of subjects of a comprehensive university. As one of the largest universities in Europe, it also works at the highest international level in research and teaching.
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to helsinki.fi’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Helsinki uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Helsinki is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms58429958
- Email delivery
- Brevo TXT brevo-code:3cc83d0f3181a2b33ac10c8d7796ac2e
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=979tVg9sxlkBnndP
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=9353Eu18uGpfpQl7JgDoM2MAe5z0etUTuqOm_PgwVuA
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Helsinki adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Microsoft 365 15/20
- Adobe · not on helsinki.fi 10/20
- Apple Business 8/20
- Atlassian · not on helsinki.fi 8/20
- Matomo · not on helsinki.fi 7/20
- jQuery · not on helsinki.fi 6/20
- nginx · not on helsinki.fi 6/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on helsinki.fi 6/20
- PHP · not on helsinki.fi 5/20
- Brevo 5/20
- Google Workspace · not on helsinki.fi 4/20
- DocuSign · not on helsinki.fi 4/20
- Zoom · not on helsinki.fi 4/20
- Dropbox · not on helsinki.fi 3/20
- Font Awesome · not on helsinki.fi 3/20