Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Medium
The 20 closest blogging platform alternatives to Medium, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 12 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Medium? The closest matches are note, Substack and Wattpad. 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
- 384-d
- Query
- 7 ms
01 · Entity
About Medium
Medium medium.com
Wikidata: online publishing platform
Summary by Claude
An online publishing platform where individuals and publications write and read articles and blog posts, with a paid membership that unlocks member-only stories and pays writers through a partner program.
- Who it’s for
- Writers, bloggers and general readers
- Business model
- Subscriptions
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Medium’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 Medium
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Medium, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read medium.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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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。
Very close cos 0.931 - 02
Substack
Substack is the app for independent voices: a free newsletter, video, and podcast hosting platform with paid subscriptions built in.
Very close cos 0.917 - 03
Wattpad - Stories to obsess over
Wattpad connects a global community of millions of readers and writers through the power of story
Very close cos 0.908 - 04
DEV Community
A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career
Very close cos 0.907 - 05
Ghost: The best open source blog & newsletter platform
Beautiful, modern publishing with email newsletters and paid subscriptions built-in. Used by Platformer, 404Media, Lever News, Tangle, The Browser, and thousands more.
Very close cos 0.904 - 06
Free, Easy Online Stores for Artists & Small Businesses
Start your free online store & scale as you grow. Easily manage your e-commerce business. Join a community of artists & small businesses.
Very close cos 0.905 - 07
user-generated content, revenue-sharing website founded in 2006
Very close cos 0.901 - 08
Your access has been blocked – The Atlantic
magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C.
Very close cos 0.906 - 09
Where Creator Communities Thrive — Patreon
Build a community, share exclusive work, and turn your passion into a thriving business with Patreon. Get started today!
Very close cos 0.900 - 10
The leading podcast platform in Spanish - iVoox
Enjoy thousands of podcasts, audiobooks and radio stations in the biggest audio catalog in Spanish. Listen for free wherever and whenever you want on iVoox!
Very close cos 0.899 - 11
digital journal platform
Very close cos 0.899 - 12
The Verge
The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts.
Very close cos 0.904 - 13
vc.ru — бизнес, технологии, идеи, модели роста, стартапы
Крупнейшая в рунете площадка для предпринимателей нового поколения. Новости ИТ-рынка, вакансии рунета, реклама, PR, интерфейсы, мобильные приложения.
Very close cos 0.903 - 14
Scribd: Home to the world’s documents.
Get to the source. Specialized knowledge on any topic, and answers you won’t find anywhere else. Home to the world’s documents, 300M+ and counting.
Very close cos 0.900 - 15
Читать книги онлайн бесплатно полностью, скачать в fb2, epub, mobi — «Литнет»
Самая крупная литературная платформа и библиотека, которая превращает чтение и публикацию книг в удовольствие. Более 180 000 книг, которые можно бесплатно читать онлайн и скачать. Все популярные жанры: любовный роман, фэнтези, фантастика и другие.
Very close cos 0.900 - 16
American news publication
Very close cos 0.902 - 17
Pastebin.com - #1 paste tool since 2002!
Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.
Very close cos 0.898 - 18
Bored Panda - The Only Magazine For Pandas
Bored Panda is a leading art, pop culture and lifestyle magazine that is viewed nearly 100 million times every month.
Very close cos 0.900 - 19
American social news aggregation website and discussion portal
Very close cos 0.899 - 20
Slate Magazine - Politics, Business, Technology, and the Arts
Online magazine of news, politics, technology, and culture. Combines humor and insight in thoughtful analyses of current events and political news.
- Apple Business
- Google Search Console
- Google Workspace
- Meta Business Suite
- Amazon Publisher Services
- Atlassian
Very close cos 0.900
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to medium.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Medium uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Medium is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:amazonses.com include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zen…
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a562f8115d3b83bd-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:amazonses.com include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zen…
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:amazonses.com include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zen…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS alina.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=Ls6JkesM8aOd8xyQ
- Dropbox TXT dropbox-domain-verification=d7wsnlvbz6l3
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=TUaeSBwTARWW1ntR_TLK0FwD5WKnFCpB5gYVuXkBmlg
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=eqviiajbkkhum35vciytgngt69oan0
- Notion TXT notion-domain-verification=FPUVTTLhldYnVqE4496kGbBhDpf54Y4O7eA8SxkbAHk
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-G8sPcKCsIq9tKkWTNFJZh3RE
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Medium adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 18/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on medium.com 10/20
- Cloudflare DNS 10/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on medium.com 10/20
- Meta Business Suite 9/20
- Amazon SES 8/20
- GlobalSign · not on medium.com 8/20
- Apple Business 8/20
- React · not on medium.com 7/20
- Cloudflare 7/20
- Next.js · not on medium.com 6/20
- Zendesk 6/20
- Atlassian · not on medium.com 5/20
- OneTrust · not on medium.com 5/20
- OpenAI 5/20