Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Moodle
The 20 closest learning management system alternatives to Moodle, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 8 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Moodle? The closest matches are Drupal, WordPress and Joomla. 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
- 8 ms
01 · Entity
About Moodle
Moodle moodle.org
Moodle challenge
Wikidata: e-learning platform
Summary by Claude
Community and project site for Moodle, a free and open-source learning management system written in PHP, offering downloads, plugins, documentation and discussion forums.
- Who it’s for
- Schools, universities, educators, workplace trainers and developers
- Business model
- Donations, Moodle Partner services and paid hosting through related company
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.
We can’t read moodle.org’s homepage (HTTP 403), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
Very close cos 0.933 - 02
Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS | WordPress.org
Open source software which you can use to easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app.
Very close cos 0.921 - 03
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.
Very close cos 0.918 - 04
phpMyAdmin
database administration tool
Very close cos 0.913 - 05
Client Challenge
non-profit educational organization
Very close cos 0.912 - 06
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 0.908 - 07
PHP
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
Very close cos 0.904 - 08
open-source Internet forum package written in PHP
Very close cos 0.902 - 09
Zotero | Your personal research assistant
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
Very close cos 0.901 - 10
Wikibooks
free multilingual online collection of textbooks
Very close cos 0.903 - 11
Doxygen homepage
Source code documentation and analysis tool
Very close cos 0.899 - 12
Blogger.com - Create a unique and beautiful blog easily.
Publish your passions your way. Whether you’d like to share your knowledge, experiences or the latest news, create a unique and beautiful blog.
Very close cos 0.900 - 13
Publications / My feed / Habr
collaborative blog
Very close cos 0.899 - 14
Ollama · Run AI models locally and in the cloud
Ollama is the easiest way to run and build with open AI models locally or in the cloud on macOS, Windows, and Linux.
Very close cos 0.897 - 15
learning management system
Close cos 0.894 - 16
MediaWiki
free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation
Very close cos 0.896 - 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.
Very close cos 0.894 - 18
Captcha Challenge…
online studying platform
Very close cos 0.895 - 19
MySQL
Open-source relational database management system
Close cos 0.894 - 20
Composer
A Dependency Manager for PHP
Close cos 0.893
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to moodle.org’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
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a56305ed9ff7ff54-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com ip4:205.201.128.…
- Mailchimp Transactional TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com ip4:205.201.128.…
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com ip4:205.201.128.…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS ken.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=VytrIW3H9VG5SpHt58ykTWEHoX_WKD2mCdfgQR08w4g
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com ip4:205.201.128.…
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 16/20
- Google Workspace 8/20
- Google Fonts · not on moodle.org 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS 5/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on moodle.org 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on moodle.org 5/20
- Cloudflare 4/20
- Apple Business · not on moodle.org 4/20
- OpenAI · not on moodle.org 4/20
- Amazon SES 3/20
- GlobalSign · not on moodle.org 3/20
- nginx · not on moodle.org 3/20
- Font Awesome · not on moodle.org 3/20
- SendGrid 3/20
- Zendesk · not on moodle.org 3/20
- Atlassian · not on moodle.org 2/20