Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Lowe's
The 20 closest home improvement retail alternatives to Lowe's, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 10 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Lowe's? The closest matches are The Home Depot, Leroy Merlin and Menards. 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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- Sites searched
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01 · Entity
About Lowe's
Lowe's lowes.com
Wikidata: American home improvement retail chain
Summary by Claude
Lowe's is a US home improvement retailer selling tools, building materials, appliances, hardware, lawn and garden products, and home décor online and through its stores, with installation services and in-store pickup.
- Who it’s for
- Homeowners, DIYers and contractors
- Business model
- Retail sales
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Lowe's’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 Lowe's
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Lowe's, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read lowes.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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American multinational home improvement supplies retailing company
Very close cos 0.934 - 02
leroymerlin.fr
French home improvement and gardening retailer
Very close cos 0.903 - 03
American home improvement store chain
Very close cos 0.900 - 04
Wayfair.com - Online Home Store for Furniture, Decor, Outdoors & More
Shop Wayfair for A Zillion Things Home across all styles and budgets. 5,000 brands of furniture, lighting, cookware, and more. Free Shipping on most items.
Very close cos 0.897 - 05
American department store chain
Close cos 0.880 - 06
American online electronics retailer
Close cos 0.880 - 07
Best Buy International: Select your Country - Best Buy
Shop online at Best Buy in your country and language of choice. Best Buy provides online shopping in a number of countries and languages.
Close cos 0.878 - 08
Houzz for Pros and Homeowners | Build and Design Software | Try Free for 30 Days
Houzz has powerful software for construction and design professionals. For homeowners, find inspiration, products, and pros to design your dream home.
Close cos 0.876 - 09
Target : Expect More. Pay Less.
Shop Target online and in-store for everything from groceries and essentials to clothing and electronics. Choose contactless pickup or delivery today.
Close cos 0.879 - 10
American real estate website
Close cos 0.879 - 11
North American arts and crafts retail chain
Close cos 0.876 - 12
LG Electronics & Home Appliances | Shop Now | LG USA
Life's Good with LG. Shop online at LG.com US to find exclusive deals on the latest home entertainment and appliances. Add smart technology and modern design to your home today.
Close cos 0.873 - 13
John Lewis & Partners | Never Knowingly Undersold
Proudly shaping British life for over 150 years, John Lewis blends timeless tradition with modern living across homeware, fashion, and technology. Discover the difference today.
Close cos 0.874 - 14
Sweetwater: Musical Instruments, Pro Audio, Accessories & More
Sweetwater is the world's leading music technology and instrument retailer, offering ✓ Highly Knowledgeable Sales Engineers, ✓ In-house Technical Support...
Close cos 0.872 - 15
Russian chain of shops and pick-up points of tools
Close cos 0.872 - 16
Media Expert
Media Expert
Close cos 0.871 - 17
US-based website containing crowd-sourced reviews of local businesses (home services directory)
Close cos 0.868 - 18
department store chain in the United States
Close cos 0.869 - 19
British retail company
Close cos 0.865 - 20
Site Unavailable
American sporting goods retailing corporation
Close cos 0.867
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to lowes.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Lowe's uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Lowe's is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CDN
- Akamai header x-akamai-transformed: 9 367 0 pmb=mRUM,2
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX lowes-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- DNS hosting
- Akamai Edge DNS NS asia1.akam.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=1d54ee311c4776ae8f3a6de3728f4fd4a4f317479…
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=b4WFgjBnDHiykbuM
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=us22vBxPw3x0bp52E4e1rNwyYdZu7YPTPoU_e…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=7eqq0wufsyRRmw7oAljR30W76s2-o0abQp8oHGvWYhA
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=6o1kbu8yqe5onyfygu84n4xmogtv6n
- Miro TXT miro-verification=ec37af00c460c05be53017cfa007e0f404e9aea7
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-LZ0opHpicGZvQoMn0Oe4L5jN
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Lowe's adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Apple Business 15/20
- Microsoft 365 15/20
- Atlassian · not on lowes.com 12/20
- Adobe 11/20
- OneTrust · not on lowes.com 11/20
- Proofpoint · not on lowes.com 11/20
- GlobalSign 10/20
- Akamai 9/20
- Akamai Edge DNS 9/20
- OpenAI 8/20
- Meta Business Suite 8/20
- DocuSign · not on lowes.com 6/20
- Miro 6/20
- Stripe · not on lowes.com 6/20
- Zoom · not on lowes.com 6/20