Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Reddit

The 20 closest Online discussion forum alternatives to Reddit, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 9 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Reddit? The closest matches are Slashdot, Pikabu and 9GAG. 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 Reddit

Reddit reddit.com

Wikidata: American social news aggregation website and discussion portal

Top 1K · #107 9 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026

Summary by Claude

A social news and discussion website where registered users post links, text, images and videos into topic-based communities called subreddits, and other users vote and comment on them.

Who it’s for
General internet users
Business model
Advertising and premium subscriptions

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Reddit’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

AnswersArcaliveStack ExchangeNewsweekQuoraProduct HuntBored Panda9GAGPikabuSlashdot

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Reddit

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Reddit, thumbs down if it isn’t.

We can’t read reddit.com’s homepage (robots.txt disallows our crawler), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.

  1. 01
    Slashdot slashdot.org Top 10K English

    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.

  2. 02
    Pikabu pikabu.ru Top 1K Russian

    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.

  3. 03
    9GAG 9gag.com Top 10K English

    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.

  4. 04
    Bored Panda boredpanda.com Top 10K English

    Bored Panda - The Only Magazine For Pandas

    Bored Panda is a leading art, pop culture and lifestyle magazine that is viewed nearly 100 million times every month.

  5. 05
    Product Hunt producthunt.com Top 10K English

    product discovery website

  6. 06
    Quora quora.com Top 1K English

    American question-and-answer website

  7. 07
    Newsweek newsweek.com Top 10K English

    Newsweek - Latest Breaking News, US, World, Politics, Business, Tech and Videos.

    Newsweek provides in-depth analysis on news, world events, politics, business, tech, entertainment, healthcare, & trending videos. Subscribe for breaking news alerts!

  8. 08
    Stack Exchange stackexchange.com Top 10K English

    Hot Questions - Stack Exchange

    Stack Overflow – 180+ community-powered knowledge sites.

  9. 09
    Arcalive arca.live Top 10K English

    Korean language website in Paraguay

  10. 10
    Answers answers.com Top 10K English

    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

  11. 11
    DEV Community dev.to Top 10K English

    DEV Community

    A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career

  12. 12
    Breitbart News breitbart.com Top 10K English

    Breitbart News Network

    Syndicated news and opinion website providing continuously updated headlines to top news and analysis sources.

  13. 13
    CBR cbr.com Top 10K English

    CBR - The World's Top Destination For Comic, Movie & TV news

    Covering comics, movies, TV like no other in the world. CBR.com is all you need!

  14. 14
    TIME time.com Top 1K English

    TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates

    Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news.

  15. 15
    DC Inside dcinside.com Top 10K Korean

    ## CONNECTING HEARTS! 디시인사이드입니다. ##

    국내 최대 인터넷 커뮤니티 포털이자 인터넷 트렌드의 중심, 디시인사이드입니다. 실시간 베스트 등의 갤러리 커뮤니티 서비스를 제공합니다.

  16. 16
    The Atlantic theatlantic.com Top 10K English

    Your access has been blocked – The Atlantic

    magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C.

  17. 17
    The Daily Beast thedailybeast.com Top 10K

    American news publication

  18. 18
    CNN cnn.com Top 1K English

    Breaking News, Latest News and Videos | CNN

    View the latest news and breaking news today for U.S., world, weather, entertainment, politics and health at CNN.com.

  19. 19
    Pantip pantip.com Top 10K Thai

    Pantip - Learn, Share & Fun

    ร่วมพูดคุยแลกเปลี่ยนความคิดเห็นในทุกประเด็น ทั้งบันเทิง หุ้น ความงาม ท่องเที่ยว รถยนต์ กีฬา โทรศัพท์มือถือ อาหาร การเมือง ครอบครัว บ้าน วิทยาศาสตร์ สุขภาพ ธุรกิจ

  20. 20
    Habr habr.com Top 10K English

    Publications / My feed / Habr

    collaborative blog

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to reddit.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Reddit uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What Reddit is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

Cookie consent
  • OneTrust TXT onetrust-domain-verification=6b98ba3dd087405399bbf45b6cbdcd37
Payments
  • Stripe TXT stripe-verification=9bd70dd1884421b47f596fea301e14838c9825cdba5b20999…
Email hosting
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=qC3rSSKrh10DoMI7
  • Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=vBaV6PXyyu4OAPLiQFbxFMCboSTjoR/qxKJ2Olp…
  • DocuSign TXT docusign=6ba0c5a9-5a5e-41f8-a7c8-8b4c6e35c10c
  • Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=QO4VY1PRzsG-MxiQn3j0kxd_ZaFjcTk6MWBfKru0_5I

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