Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Moodle
The 20 closest learning management system alternatives to Moodle, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 20 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Moodle? The closest matches are Coursera, Schoology and Odoo. 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 Moodle
Moodle moodle.com
Discover Moodle — the world's most popular LMS
Build an effective, engaging learning ecosystem with Moodle, the most customisable and popular LMS for education, enterprise, and public sector organisations.
Summary by Claude
Moodle is an open-source learning management system for creating and delivering online courses, with Moodle LMS for education and Moodle Workplace for corporate training, deployable in the cloud or self-hosted.
- Who it’s for
- Schools, universities, businesses and public sector organisations
- Business model
- Hosting, subscriptions and partner services
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Moodle’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 Moodle
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Moodle, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Coursera | Online Courses, Certificates, & Degrees
Learn job-ready skills with online courses, Professional Certificates, Specializations, and degrees from Google, Meta, Anthropic, DeepLearning.AI, Stanford, and more. Start learning today.
Very close cos 0.905 - 02
Open Source ERP and CRM | Odoo
From ERP to CRM, eCommerce and CMS. Download Odoo or use it in the cloud. Grow Your Business.
Very close cos 0.900 - 03
online learning platform
Very close cos 0.896 - 04
D2L | Online Learning Platform | Creators of the Brightspace LMS Software
Created by D2L, Brightspace is the best LMS software for online learning and teaching. Discover how our online learning platform for schools and companies can help your organization today.
Close cos 0.893 - 05
AI-Powered LMS for Transformational Teaching & Learning | Blackboard
Discover Blackboard's AI-powered LMS designed for higher education, businesses, and government - enabling personalized learning, accessibility, and better outcomes worldwide. Contact us!
Close cos 0.892 - 06
Joomla Content Management System (CMS) - try it! It's free!
Joomla! is the mobile-ready and user-friendly way to build your website. Choose from thousands of features and designs. Joomla! is free and open source.
Close cos 0.893 - 07
Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
Close cos 0.892 - 08
Instructure: Leading EdTech for K–12, Higher Ed & Business
Empower learning with Instructure’s LMS and edtech solutions for K–12, higher education, and businesses. Discover Canvas, Impact, and Mastery to drive success.
Close cos 0.888 - 09
Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS | WordPress.org
Open source software which you can use to easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app.
Close cos 0.889 - 10
online education platform
Close cos 0.888 - 11
Client Challenge
non-profit educational organization
Close cos 0.885 - 12
edX | Online Courses, Certificates & Degrees from Leading Institutions
Find the online learning path for you, delivered by world-class institutions like Harvard, Google, Amazon, and more.
Close cos 0.882 - 13
RustDesk: Open-Source Remote Desktop with Self-Hosted Server Solutions
RustDesk is open-source remote desktop software for your own self-hosted server, a TeamViewer and AnyDesk alternative for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android.
Close cos 0.880 - 14
MySQL
Open-source relational database management system
Close cos 0.880 - 15
Zotero | Your personal research assistant
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
Close cos 0.879 - 16
Teaching Resources & Lesson Plans | TPT
World’s most popular online marketplace for original educational resources with more than four million resources available for use today.
Close cos 0.878 - 17
Captcha Challenge…
online studying platform
Close cos 0.878 - 18
Learn to Code - for Free | Codecademy
Learn the technical skills to get the job you want. Join over 50 million people choosing Codecademy to start a new career (or advance in their current one).
Close cos 0.878 - 20
phpMyAdmin
database administration tool
Close cos 0.876
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to moodle.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Moodle uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Moodle is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress page source: /wp-includes/
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://moodle.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
- CSS & UI
- Font Awesome asset https://moodle.com/wp-content/cache/asset-cleanup/1/css/item/thetheme__fonts__fontawesome…
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Live chat & support
- Intercom page source: widget.intercom.io
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
- A/B testing
- VWO page source: dev.visualwebsiteoptimizer.com
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5630bba28d2b1e5-HAM
- Hosting
- WP Engine header x-powered-by: WP Engine
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-includes/)
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms75896739
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.salesforce.com include:am…
- Mailchimp Transactional TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.salesforce.com include:am…
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.salesforce.com include:am…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS coco.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=W7_99ji-VWKb-PP3W8aCBPWzWRqZ1sZMubmTfz2BsnM
- Miro TXT miro-verification=841f7413d07d8b6749fc00834046e0d1ef0514b8
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-eT5DYIzEdztUXrqqxPbGGmJY
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.salesforce.com include:am…
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Moodle adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Microsoft 365 14/20
- Google Workspace 13/20
- Apple Business · not on moodle.com 10/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on moodle.com 10/20
- Atlassian · not on moodle.com 9/20
- DocuSign · not on moodle.com 8/20
- OneTrust 8/20
- OpenAI 8/20
- Cloudflare 8/20
- Amazon SES 7/20
- Salesforce 7/20
- Google Tag Manager 7/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on moodle.com 6/20
- Stripe · not on moodle.com 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS 6/20