Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Smithsonian Institution
The 20 closest museums and research institution alternatives to Smithsonian Institution, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 11 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Smithsonian Institution? The closest matches are Smithsonian Magazine, Metropolitan Museum of Art and National Archives and Records Administration. 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 Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution si.edu
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Wikidata: group of museums and research centers administered by the United States government
Summary by Claude
Official website of the Smithsonian Institution, a U.S. federally created group of museums, research centers and the National Zoo, offering visitor information, exhibitions, digitized collections, research and educational resources.
- Who it’s for
- Museum visitors, students, educators and researchers
- Business model
- Federal funding, donations and memberships
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Smithsonian Institution’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 Smithsonian Institution
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Smithsonian Institution, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read si.edu’s homepage (HTTP 403), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
- 01
American magazine
Very close cos 0.925 - 02
Vercel Security Checkpoint
art museum in New York City, United States
Very close cos 0.915 - 03
National Archives | Home
National Archives and Records Administration
Very close cos 0.910 - 04
Technical Difficulties
executive department of the U.S. federal government
Very close cos 0.907 - 05
Home Page
API endpoint
Very close cos 0.903 - 06
NPS.gov Homepage (U.S. National Park Service)
The National Park Service cares for special places saved by the American people so that all may experience our heritage.
Very close cos 0.904 - 07
Home | Library of Congress
The world's largest library. View historic photos, maps, books and more. Contact experts for help with research. Plan a visit. Home of U.S. Copyright Office.
Very close cos 0.905 - 08
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique est le plus grand organisme public français de recherche scientifique. Il exerce son activité dans
Very close cos 0.904 - 09
NSF - U.S. National Science Foundation
NSF is an independent federal agency that supports science and engineering in all 50 states and U.S. territories.
Very close cos 0.902 - 10
NASA
NASA.gov brings you the latest news, images and videos from America's space agency, pioneering the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research.
Very close cos 0.903 - 11
US government medical research agency
Very close cos 0.902 - 12
National Institute of Standards and Technology
NIST promotes U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life.
Very close cos 0.898 - 13
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Our work helps shape sound policies, inform public opinion, and advance the pursuit of science, engineering, and medicine.
Very close cos 0.900 - 14
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive
Very close cos 0.899 - 15
Zenodo
research data repository
Very close cos 0.898 - 16
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | CDC
United States government public health agency
Very close cos 0.899 - 17
A Community for Naturalists · iNaturalist
iNaturalist is a social network for naturalists! Record your observations of plants and animals, share them with friends and researchers, and learn about the natural world.
Very close cos 0.895 - 18
The White House
President Donald J. Trump and Vice President JD Vance are committed to lowering costs for all Americans, securing our borders, unleashing American energy dominance, restoring peace through strength, and making all Americans safe and secure once again.
Very close cos 0.897 - 19
Your access has been blocked – The Atlantic
magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C.
Very close cos 0.896 - 20
National Geographic
Explore National Geographic. A world leader in geography, cartography and exploration.
Close cos 0.893
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to si.edu’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Smithsonian Institution uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Smithsonian Institution 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=733d52d8e41444d097693c749e597ec9
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a56306118ac962dd-HAM
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX si-edu.mail.protection.outlook.com
- DNS hosting
- Akamai Edge DNS NS a26-66.akam.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=ebf44aa1f4d5c71b36a262511b68415832b6f2ad1…
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=OQGHn6kF8gOnAiWs
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=WsqpJRrIShm2l9mzMRIOQjdSiHChgFqqfOMIUH4…
- Canva TXT canva-site-verification=_s6Cq2oLPbhyDq31iu-b-A
- DocuSign TXT docusign=13c4cb8d-4a47-4283-811e-e667bdd84098
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=9-OyClmReEWU6t3ri7R65zaHcE5ONk80xgeIHMjgg08
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-eu9pCkdZuzJSXWszEh1cs3BG
Stack changes
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What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Microsoft 365 16/20
- Atlassian 11/20
- Adobe 8/20
- jQuery · not on si.edu 8/20
- OpenAI 8/20
- Cloudflare 6/20
- Apple Business 6/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on si.edu 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on si.edu 6/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on si.edu 5/20
- Akamai Edge DNS 5/20
- PHP · not on si.edu 5/20
- Amazon SES · not on si.edu 4/20
- Mailchimp · not on si.edu 4/20
- nginx · not on si.edu 4/20