Alternatives and competitors
Sites like NexusMods
The 20 closest video game mod hosting alternatives to NexusMods, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 9 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to NexusMods? The closest matches are GameBanana, Liteapks and GTA5-Mods.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 NexusMods
NexusMods nexusmods.com
Wikidata: website for sharing computer game modifications
Summary by Claude
Nexus Mods hosts user-created modifications for PC video games, letting modders upload files and players download them, with forums, a wiki, and a mod manager application.
- Who it’s for
- PC gamers and game modders
- Business model
- Premium memberships and advertising
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to NexusMods’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 NexusMods
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to NexusMods, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read nexusmods.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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GameBanana | The Game Modding Community - Since 2001
Mods, Tutorials, Sprays, Works In Progress, Sound Mods and more for video games
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LITEAPKS - #1 MOD APK for Android
LITEAPKS.COM is the leading reputable source for mod apk, free games and apps for Android
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GTA5-Mods.com - Your source for the latest GTA 5 car mods, scripts, tools and more.
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News, free games and program for Android
Free Games and Programs, you can download for free, a lot popular games with MOD for Android.
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Modrinth
Download Minecraft mods, plugins, datapacks, shaders, resourcepacks, and modpacks on Modrinth. Discover and publish projects on Modrinth with a modern, easy to use interface and API.
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Seamless programmatic server-side connections | Nexx360
Make the most out of your AdStack and shape your success through seamless connections with Nexx360’s cloud-based technology.
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XDA
The world’s best source for computing news, reviews, editorials guides, and more.
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NG Guard
American entertainment and social media website
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루리웹
들어올 땐 마음대로인 루리웹 메인으로 들어오도록 해
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PlayGround.ru - Компьютерные игры, патчи, моды, прохождение игр, коды, читы, трейнеры, скачать игры
PlayGround.ru - Компьютерные игры, патчи, моды, прохождение игр, коды, читы, трейнеры, скачать игры
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Welcome to wiki.gg!
wiki.gg hosts MediaWiki sites about common-interest topics. With over 800 wikis and an indie, editors-first mindset, we're a great place to host your wiki and we'd love to have you!
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video game website
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Nexon Home
2014 video game
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IGN Deutschland
IGN Deutschland: Eure Anlaufstelle für aktuelle Tests, Reviews und Specials zu Videospielen, Games, Kino und Serien. Von Playstation 5, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch und PC bis zu Marvel und Co.
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Nexxen
Nexxen's advertising technology platform delivers performance powered by unique data and media, to help advertisers and publishers achieve their full-funnel goals.
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wiki hosting service and domain
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PC Gamer | THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES
British-American video game magazine
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PCWorld
PCWorld helps you navigate the PC ecosystem to find the products you want and the advice you need to get the job done.
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Minecraft Internet forum and fansite
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to nexusmods.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones NexusMods uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What NexusMods 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: a562fd8a0a9a1a62-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 a mx include:amazonses.com include:helpscoutemail.com include:…
- Brevo TXT brevo-code:c8ab2b146cae94b79c4115e7caa6089e
- Mailgun TXT v=spf1 a mx include:amazonses.com include:helpscoutemail.com include:…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS karl.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=d3ECoAG7tbZjWwjPW5q5sYSUTXIHUPOQJ10Cc…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=GiWCKWxqoAfHps_ZosXYOY_JSeCHx5tIn4H-nmHyz6o
- Notion TXT notion-domain-verification=Kab4rrGpOCb7hr86HhQb6cgKW0Kids6a5cTjd7id1ME
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what NexusMods adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Cloudflare 11/20
- Google Workspace 11/20
- Cloudflare DNS 8/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on nexusmods.com 6/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on nexusmods.com 6/20
- jQuery · not on nexusmods.com 6/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on nexusmods.com 6/20
- Google Analytics · not on nexusmods.com 5/20
- PHP · not on nexusmods.com 5/20
- WordPress · not on nexusmods.com 5/20
- Amazon SES 5/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on nexusmods.com 5/20
- nginx · not on nexusmods.com 4/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on nexusmods.com 4/20
- GlobalSign 3/20