Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Slate
The 20 closest online magazine alternatives to Slate, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 13 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Slate? The closest matches are The Atlantic, The Daily Beast and Newsweek. 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 Slate
Slate slate.com
Slate Magazine - Politics, Business, Technology, and the Arts
Online magazine of news, politics, technology, and culture. Combines humor and insight in thoughtful analyses of current events and political news.
Wikidata: U.S.-based online magazine
Summary by Claude
American online magazine publishing news analysis, commentary, and essays on politics, current affairs, business, technology, and culture, along with podcasts and advice columns.
- Who it’s for
- General US readers interested in politics and culture
- Business model
- Advertising and subscriptions (Slate Plus)
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Slate’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 Slate
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Slate, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Your access has been blocked – The Atlantic
magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C.
Very close cos 0.950 - 02
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!
Very close cos 0.945 - 03
Vox
Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology, culture, science, the climate crisis, money, health and everything else that matters. Our goal is to ensure that everyone, regardless of income or status, can access accurate information that empowers them.
Very close cos 0.935 - 04
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.
Very close cos 0.932 - 05
Foreign Policy – the Global Magazine of News and Ideas
The Global Magazine of News and Ideas
Very close cos 0.926 - 06
Rolling Stone – Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage
Get the latest Rolling Stone news with exclusive stories and pictures from Rolling Stone.
Very close cos 0.924 - 07
News | The Independent | Today's headlines and latest breaking news
The latest breaking news, comment and features from The Independent.
Very close cos 0.927 - 08
International Business Times - Business News, Financial news
International Business Times is the leading provider of business news and financial news from the US and around the world.
Very close cos 0.926 - 09
fastcompany.com
American magazine
Very close cos 0.924 - 10
Harvard Business Review - Ideas and Advice for Leaders
Find new ideas and classic advice on strategy, innovation and leadership, for global leaders from the world's best business and management experts.
Very close cos 0.922 - 11
The Verge
The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts.
Very close cos 0.925 - 12
Mental Floss - History, Trivia, Interesting Facts, and More
Learn weird, interesting facts about history, entertainment, language, geography, and more topics. Test your knowledge with our quizzes and other trivia.
Very close cos 0.921 - 13
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.
Very close cos 0.919 - 14
Scientific American
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
- Google Search Console
- Meta Business Suite
- Amazon Route 53
- Amazon CloudFront
- GlobalSign
- Google Tag Manager
Very close cos 0.920 - 15
Breitbart News Network
Syndicated news and opinion website providing continuously updated headlines to top news and analysis sources.
Very close cos 0.918 - 16
PCWorld
PCWorld helps you navigate the PC ecosystem to find the products you want and the advice you need to get the job done.
Very close cos 0.919 - 17
Polygon: Gaming and Entertainment News, Culture, Reviews, and More
Your source for the latest in video games, sci-fi, fantasy, tabletop games, anime, horror, books, and comics.
Very close cos 0.918 - 18
Latest World & National News & Headlines - USATODAY.com
USA TODAY delivers current national and local news, sports, entertainment, finance, technology, and more through award-winning journalism, photos, and videos.
- Amazon Publisher Services
- Apple Business
- Fastly
- Google Ad Manager
- Google Search Console
- Meta Business Suite
Very close cos 0.917 - 19
American journalism company and news website
Very close cos 0.916 - 20
MIT Technology Review
Emerging technology news & insights | AI, Climate Change, BioTech, and more
Very close cos 0.912
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to slate.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Slate uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Slate is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Advertising
- Amazon Publisher Services page source: c.amazon-adsystem.com
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Prebid.js page source: prebid.min.a553dd4.js
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-iad-kcgs7200025-IAD, cache-iad-kcgs7270032-IAD, cache…
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms80887413
- Email delivery
- Mailchimp Transactional TXT v=spf1 include:aspmx.sailthru.com include:_spf.google.com include:spf…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1786.awsdns-31.co.uk
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=sZMSDmtoSKwsMe0p
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=RtXv6uaEMMbRyleHa5jMbQmiUCVy0CxH4Qf3lF/…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=uArxK1vn-yOFkOmDQ2CSIPUjMlYZVXsYoMi3YdoMUB8
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=h1bqpgb101ufjdlpv4m8n6js8pjbde
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Slate adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Microsoft 365 15/20
- Google Workspace 14/20
- Meta Business Suite 14/20
- Amazon Route 53 11/20
- Amazon SES · not on slate.com 11/20
- GlobalSign · not on slate.com 9/20
- Zendesk · not on slate.com 9/20
- Google Ad Manager 9/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on slate.com 9/20
- Adobe · not on slate.com 8/20
- OpenAI · not on slate.com 8/20
- PHP · not on slate.com 8/20
- WordPress · not on slate.com 8/20
- OneTrust 8/20
- Zoom · not on slate.com 7/20