Alternatives and competitors
Sites like ko-fi.com
The 20 closest creator monetization alternatives to ko-fi.com, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 5 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to ko-fi.com? The closest matches are Buy Me a Coffee, note and Patreon. 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 ko-fi.com
ko-fi.com
Wikidata: web patronage service
Summary by Claude
Ko-fi lets creators receive one-off tips, recurring memberships, commissions and digital product sales from supporters through a personal page.
- Who it’s for
- Independent creators, artists, writers and streamers
- Business model
- Transaction fees and optional creator subscriptions
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to ko-fi.com’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 ko-fi.com
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to ko-fi.com, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read ko-fi.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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Buy Me a Coffee
Buy Me a Coffee is the best way for creators and artists to accept support and membership from their fans.
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note ――つくる、つながる、とどける。
クリエイターが文章やマンガ、写真、音声を投稿することができ、ユーザーはそのコンテンツを楽しんで応援できるメディアプラットフォームです。だれもが創作を楽しんで続けられるよう、安心できる雰囲気や、多様性を大切にしています。
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Where Creator Communities Thrive — Patreon
Build a community, share exclusive work, and turn your passion into a thriving business with Patreon. Get started today!
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It needs a human touch
Complete the task and we'll get you right back into Fiverr.
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American crowdfunding website
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Envato® | AI Tools and Unlimited Creative Assets
Create and customize content with AI tools and unlimited creative assets for professional and commercial use.
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online education platform
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漫画なら、めちゃコミック（めちゃコミ）
無料漫画が42733作品567990話以上！気になるマンガが見つかったら、まずは試し読み。オリジナル・独占先行配信や注目の話題作・感動の名作など充実の品揃え。
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US-based crowdfunding platform
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Building tools for shared knowledge - Creative Commons
family of public copyright licenses for allowing free use of a work
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Ravelry
Ravelry is a community site, an organizational tool, and a yarn & pattern database for knitters and crocheters.
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WEBTOON - Read Comics, Manga & Manhwa
WEBTOON is home to thousands of stories across 23 genres including romance, comedy, action, fantasy, and horror. Read comics, webcomics, manga, and manhwa online or download the WEBTOON app.
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YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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Request temporarily denied. | Archive of Our Own
nonprofit online fanfiction repository operated by the Organization for Transformative Works
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Client Challenge
non-profit educational organization
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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.
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tidal.com
subscription-based music streaming service
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Challenged | Kobo.com
Canadian subsidiary of Japanese e-commerce conglomerate Rakuten
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British international financial firm
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GoFundMe | The #1 Crowdfunding and Fundraising Platform
Start your fundraiser in minutes with tools to help you succeed. GoFundMe is the global leader in crowdfunding, trusted by 100+ million people.
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to ko-fi.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones ko-fi.com uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What ko-fi.com is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5630cbb889703be-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms60097880
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS eve.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=KNxtsmSiYuRVT4tKrmzt9BOuQBq-Dp0Hz6TjKRuMzRo
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what ko-fi.com adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace 15/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on ko-fi.com 13/20
- Cloudflare 11/20
- Microsoft 365 11/20
- Cloudflare DNS 10/20
- Zendesk · not on ko-fi.com 10/20
- Apple Business · not on ko-fi.com 10/20
- Atlassian · not on ko-fi.com 10/20
- Stripe · not on ko-fi.com 8/20
- GlobalSign · not on ko-fi.com 7/20
- OneTrust · not on ko-fi.com 7/20
- Amazon SES · not on ko-fi.com 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on ko-fi.com 6/20
- Zoom · not on ko-fi.com 6/20
- OpenAI · not on ko-fi.com 5/20