Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Pearson
The 20 closest Educational publishing and assessment alternatives to Pearson, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 18 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Pearson? The closest matches are Pluralsight, Preply and Teachers Pay Teachers. 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 Pearson
Pearson pearson.com
Pearson | The World's Leading Education Provider
Discover all Pearson has to offer for every step of your learning journey.
Wikidata: UK publishing company
Summary by Claude
Pearson is a British education company providing learning materials, digital courseware, standardized assessments and qualifications, English-language learning products, virtual schooling, and workforce skills training.
- Who it’s for
- Students, educators, schools, universities, employers
- Business model
- Product sales, subscriptions, and assessment fees
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Pearson’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 Pearson
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Pearson, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Tech & IT Learning Platform for Teams | Pluralsight
Trusted by 23,000+ organizations, Pluralsight is the online tech learning platform for building AI, cloud, data, and security skills with courses and labs.
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Preply: Learn with the best online language tutors on app & web
Looking for a tutor? Preply is the best platform for private online lessons with a flexible payment system and affordable prices. Book your first lesson.
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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.
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Times Higher Education home | Times Higher Education (THE)
Provides global higher education coverage. Find world university rankings, news, opinions, features and book reviews.
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Client Challenge
non-profit educational organization
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non-teaching department of the University of Cambridge
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Captcha Challenge…
online studying platform
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Welcome to GOV.UK
GOV.UK - The best place to find government services and information.
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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.
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online education platform
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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.
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BBC Home | Breaking News, World News, US News, Sports, Business, Innovation, Climate, Culture, Travel, Video & Audio
Visit BBC for trusted reporting on the latest world and US news, sports, business, climate, innovation, culture and much more
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Poshmark: Buy and sell fashion, home decor, beauty & more
Buy, sell, and discover fashion, home decor, beauty, and more
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McGraw Hill
Navigate your educational journey with McGraw Hill. We provide essential tools and resources for both instructors and students to foster effective learning.
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online learning platform
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Client Challenge
global publishing company
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Routledge - Publisher of Professional & Academic Books
Routledge is a leading book publisher that fosters human progress through knowledge for scholars, instructors and professionals
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IXL | Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, and Spanish
IXL is the world's most popular subscription-based learning site for K–12. Used by over 18 million students, IXL provides personalized learning in more than 20,000 topics, covering math, language arts, science, social studies, and Spanish. Interactive questions, awards, and certificates keep kids motivated as they master skills.
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Edmentum
Flexible Learning Paths.Proven Outcomes.Future-Ready Students. Edmentum’s K–12 solutions accelerate growth and achievement, from foundational learning…
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Technology news and analysis | The Register
All the latest news for enterprise technology decision-makers and IT pros | The Register
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to pearson.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Pearson uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Pearson 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: /content/dam/global/
- CSS & UI
- Font Awesome asset https://www.pearson.com/etc/clientlibs/platform/aem-core/libraries/font-awesome-4-2.min.A…
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Plus+Jakarta+Sans:ital,wght@0,200..800;1,200..800
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
- A/B testing
- VWO page source: window._vwo_code
- Monitoring
- New Relic page source: NREUM
- CDN
- Akamai header x-akamai-transformed: 9l 37995 0 pmb=mRUM,1
- Hosting
- Amazon Web Services cookie AWSALB
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX pearson-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=ce5de4e4-ec13-43b6-9f9c-855c252d9577
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=UuvE90iT3tH0luGQ
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=0rSKhL4d81cIAI5xvRLdbS4R9ZYaasUoxfHIEjS…
- Canva TXT canva-site-verification=U3YS8r44VjD2cWeciKhDHA
- GlobalSign TXT globalsign-domain-verification=TqrstXMFi0gyyeWc21_xHEHJ9wdhieUGi3nXzF…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=C87_PTR2xDzmbHGM4j-IO2ueFhvZi3AF_XnAVHZeCxI
- Miro TXT miro-verification=bae6e03ab851770cd1f5d78b1913821db1f83268
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_kCf6CAm6RjqgZS20Y9vjzA
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Pearson adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Atlassian 15/20
- Microsoft 365 15/20
- DocuSign · not on pearson.com 12/20
- Google Workspace · not on pearson.com 12/20
- Apple Business 12/20
- OneTrust 11/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on pearson.com 11/20
- Cloudflare · not on pearson.com 10/20
- OpenAI · not on pearson.com 10/20
- Salesforce · not on pearson.com 9/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on pearson.com 8/20
- Adobe 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on pearson.com 7/20
- GlobalSign 6/20
- Stripe · not on pearson.com 6/20