Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Microsoft
The 20 closest software and cloud computing alternatives to Microsoft, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 11 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Microsoft? The closest matches are cloud.microsoft, XBOX and office365.com. 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 Microsoft
Microsoft microsoft.com
Microsoft – AI, Cloud, Productivity, Computing, Gaming & Apps
Explore Microsoft products and services and support for your home or business. Shop Microsoft 365, Copilot, Teams, Xbox, Windows, Azure, Surface and more.
Wikidata: American multinational technology corporation
Summary by Claude
Corporate site and online store for Microsoft's software, cloud services, hardware and gaming products, including Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Surface devices and Xbox, along with support and developer resources.
- Who it’s for
- Consumers, businesses, and developers
- Business model
- Software licenses, subscriptions, cloud services, hardware sales
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Microsoft’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 Microsoft
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Microsoft, thumbs down if it isn’t.
Startups challenging Microsoft
All challengersYounger companies going after Microsoft, often too small to rank among its nearest neighbours yet.
Pitch vs PowerPoint
Real-time collaboration with comments and assignments on slides.
- 01
Microsoft 365 - Sign into Copilot
Microsoft 365 includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and OneDrive, with Microsoft Copilot built in to help you create, communicate, and summarize information. Formerly Office 365.
Very close cos 0.923 - 02
XBOX Official Site: Play Games Anywhere | XBOX
Play with XBOX on PC, console, & more. Explore Game Pass. Discover thousands of games. Shop controllers, handhelds, & consoles. Join players anywhere.
Very close cos 0.917 - 03 office365.com Top 1K
Web App - Unavailable
subscription to a range of office software products from Microsoft
Very close cos 0.913 - 04
Search - Microsoft Bing
Search with Microsoft Bing and use the power of AI to find information, explore webpages, images, videos, maps, and more. A smart search engine for the forever curious.
Very close cos 0.903 - 05
Envato® | AI Tools and Unlimited Creative Assets
Create and customize content with AI tools and unlimited creative assets for professional and commercial use.
Very close cos 0.901 - 06
The AI Workspace for People & Agents | monday.com
Get more work done with AI agents that work side by side with your people. Execute, manage, and operate together on one AI Workspace to drive business results.
Very close cos 0.898 - 07
Intel Inside - Built for AI
Deliver AI at scale across cloud, data center, edge, and client with comprehensive hardware and software solutions.
Very close cos 0.896 - 08
Computerworld
Computerworld covers a range of technology topics, with a focus on these core areas of IT: generative AI, Windows, mobile, Apple/enterprise, office suites, productivity software, and collaboration software, as well as relevant information about companies such as Microsoft, Apple, OpenAI and Google.
Very close cos 0.898 - 09
Sony Corporation - Home
This is Sony Corporation's official website, featuring Sony Group's Entertainment, Technology & Services (ET&S) business' product and service, announcements and press releases, sustainability, recruitment information, and more.
Close cos 0.893 - 10
Microsoft Casual Games
video game developer
Close cos 0.892 - 11
American cloud-based business management software company
Very close cos 0.895 - 12 Close cos 0.891
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Zoho | Cloud-Software-Suite für Unternehmen
Eine einzigartige und leistungsstarke Software-Suite, die Ihre Arbeitsweise verändert. Entwickelt für Unternehmen jeder Größe; von einem Unternehmen gebaut, das Ihre Privatsphäre schätzt.
Close cos 0.893 - 14
home.pl: Nr 1 w Polsce. Domeny, Hosting, Serwery WWW, Strony, Sklepy
Od 25 lat budujemy polski internet. home.pl jest największym w Polsce dostawcą usług internetowych. Dołącz do grona naszych zadowolonych klientów.
Close cos 0.894 - 15
KI-gestützte Serviceplattform | Zendesk
Mehr als Ticketvermeidung: KI-Agenten lösen Anfragen durchgängig. Verbessern Sie Servicequalität, Geschwindigkeit und Skalierung. Jetzt kostenlos testen.
Close cos 0.891 - 16
Technical Difficulties
American multinational computer corporation
Close cos 0.889 - 17
Hugging Face – The AI community building the future.
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Close cos 0.888 - 18
Semrush: Your Unfair Advantage for Growing Brand Visibility
Semrush is the leading platform to grow and measure brand visibility across AI search, SEO, PPC, social, and more.
Close cos 0.890 - 19
IBM
For more than a century, IBM has been a global technology innovator, leading advances in AI, automation and hybrid cloud solutions that help businesses grow.
- Adobe Experience Manager
- Atlassian
- Google Search Console
- Meta Business Suite
- Microsoft 365
- Microsoft Clarity
Close cos 0.887 - 20
Bazaarvoice | The UGC Platform for Authentic Shopper Experiences
The leading UGC platform for authentic ratings, reviews, visual UGC, and review syndication that powers discovery, shopper trust, and higher ecommerce conversion.
Close cos 0.889
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to microsoft.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Microsoft uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Microsoft is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CMS
- Adobe Experience Manager page source: /etc.clientlibs/
- Analytics
- Microsoft Clarity page source: clarity.ms/tag/
- Marketing automation
- HubSpot TXT hubspot-developer-verification=OTQ5NGIwYWEtODNmZi00YWE1LTkyNmQtNDhjMD…
- CDN
- Azure Front Door header x-azure-ref: 20261106T090924Z-1749df4f94fn24t8hC1AMSpmd800000011zg000000…
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX microsoft-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- DNS hosting
- Azure DNS NS ns4-39.azure-dns.info
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=Sn5AwyIdVgkaRaJA/IKj7ZFMnWeCBnppa9bXGLu…
- DocuSign TXT docusign=d5a3737c-c23c-4bd0-9095-d2ff621f2840
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=uFg3wr5PWsK8lV029RoXXBBUW0_E6qf1WEWVHhetkOY
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=fwzwhbbzwmg5fzgotc2go51olc3566
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-sFtCvKOlWoe31gpoSvs7cqsP
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Microsoft adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Microsoft 365 12/20
- Adobe · not on microsoft.com 9/20
- Atlassian 9/20
- DocuSign 9/20
- Apple Business · not on microsoft.com 9/20
- Meta Business Suite 8/20
- OpenAI 8/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on microsoft.com 7/20
- Google Workspace · not on microsoft.com 6/20
- Miro · not on microsoft.com 6/20
- OneTrust · not on microsoft.com 6/20
- Azure DNS 5/20
- Akamai Edge DNS · not on microsoft.com 5/20
- Cloudflare · not on microsoft.com 4/20
- Stripe · not on microsoft.com 4/20