Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Quora
The 20 closest question-and-answer community alternatives to Quora, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 12 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Quora? The closest matches are Answers, Stack Overflow and Zhihu. 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
- 16 ms
01 · Entity
About Quora
Quora quora.com
Wikidata: American question-and-answer website
Summary by Claude
A social question-and-answer website where users post questions, write answers, comment, and follow topics and other users; it also offers Spaces communities and the Poe AI chatbot service.
- Who it’s for
- General public seeking answers and sharing knowledge
- Business model
- Advertising and subscriptions
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Quora’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 Quora
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Quora, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read quora.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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Answers - The Most Trusted Place for Answering Life's Questions
Answers is the place to go to get the answers you need and to ask the questions you want
Very close cos 0.949 - 02
website for professional and enthusiast programmers
Very close cos 0.933 - 03 Very close cos 0.928
- 04
Hot Questions - Stack Exchange
Stack Overflow – 180+ community-powered knowledge sites.
Very close cos 0.928 - 05 Very close cos 0.918
- 06
American social news aggregation website and discussion portal
Very close cos 0.917 - 07
Perplexity
Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question.
Very close cos 0.901 - 08
ResearchGate - Temporarily Unavailable
commercial scientific social network
Very close cos 0.901 - 09
Deine Plattform für Petitionen · Change.org
Mehr als 500.000.000 Menschen setzen sich in ihrem Umfeld für Veränderungen ein. Mach mit.
Very close cos 0.896 - 10 Very close cos 0.896
- 11
product discovery website
Very close cos 0.897 - 12
Горячее – самые интересные и обсуждаемые посты | Пикабу
Пикабу – это уютное информационно-развлекательное сообщество, где любой желающий может опубликовать пост. Истории из жизни, свежие шутки и мемы, познавательные статьи, забавные фото и видео, интересные комментарии. Если другим пользователям понравится ваша история, ее увидят сотни тысяч людей.
Very close cos 0.898 - 13
Wolfram|Alpha: Computational Intelligence
Compute answers using Wolfram's breakthrough technology & knowledgebase, relied on by millions of students & professionals. For math, science, nutrition, history, geography, engineering, mathematics, linguistics, sports, finance, music…
Close cos 0.894 - 14
9GAG - Best Funny Memes and Breaking News
Your daily dose of funny memes, GIFs, videos and weird news stories. We deliver hundreds of new memes daily and much more humor anywhere you go.
Close cos 0.894 - 15
American neural language model chatbot service
Close cos 0.893 - 16 Close cos 0.893
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Google
search engine by Google LLC
Very close cos 0.895 - 18
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters, & software
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters. Timely news source for technology related news and B2B software reviews & comparisons.
Close cos 0.893 - 19
Goodreads | Meet your next favorite book
Find and read more books you’ll love, and keep track of the books you want to read. Be part of the world’s largest community of book lovers on Goodreads.
Close cos 0.890
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to quora.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Quora uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Quora is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Marketing automation
- Marketo TXT v=spf1 include:_spf1.quora.com include:_spf2.quora.com include:_spf.g…
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:_spf1.quora.com include:_spf2.quora.com include:_spf.g…
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a562fa73ad500d22-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms41108016
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-673.awsdns-20.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- DocuSign TXT docusign=ed3b177c-9f9e-46b8-822f-378104f0e937
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=EGXYWFCTQynvOf5IBle5NjMEbKo9PBQaeH9mn…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=YHVWrk9up0QuAIkeCEeZ6J7ty5jDoKwX1yNW_GST5Zg
- Notion TXT notion-domain-verification=XZ50Z8vAqIAKtBJKdHc2vNjkyEDlfL8zQVdTrl5rAsw
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-PBdVIYKdEhZODJLXNZPwlxrS
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 include:_spf1.quora.com include:_spf2.quora.com include:_spf.g…
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Quora adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 16/20
- Apple Business · not on quora.com 10/20
- Atlassian · not on quora.com 8/20
- Cloudflare 8/20
- Amazon Route 53 7/20
- Stripe · not on quora.com 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on quora.com 7/20
- DocuSign 6/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on quora.com 6/20
- Microsoft 365 6/20
- SendGrid · not on quora.com 6/20
- Zendesk 6/20
- Notion 5/20
- Slack · not on quora.com 5/20
- Mailgun · not on quora.com 4/20