Alternatives and competitors
Sites like SmugMug
The 20 closest photo hosting alternatives to SmugMug, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 6 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to SmugMug? The closest matches are ImageShack, imgsrc.ru and Postimages. 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 SmugMug
SmugMug smugmug.com
Wikidata: paid image sharing, image hosting service, and online video platform
Summary by Claude
Paid photo and video hosting service where photographers build portfolio websites, share galleries, and sell digital downloads and prints.
- Who it’s for
- Amateur and professional photographers
- Business model
- Subscriptions and print sales commissions
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to SmugMug’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 SmugMug
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to SmugMug, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read smugmug.com’s homepage (robots.txt disallows our crawler), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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ImageShack: Image Hosting & Photo Sharing
Image hosting and photo storage for your high-res photos. Upload, organize into albums and share anywhere with ImageShack. Plans from $3.99/month.
Very close cos 0.932 - 02
Unlimited photo hosting @iMGSRC.RU
Your free and unlimited host iMGSRC.RU presents Unlimited photo hosting
Very close cos 0.932 - 03
Postimages — free image hosting / image upload
Provides free image uploading and hosting integration for forums. Free picture hosting and photo sharing for websites and blogs.
Very close cos 0.920 - 04
photo sharing website
Very close cos 0.917 - 05
American image and video hosting website
Very close cos 0.916 - 06
PhotoFolio®: Design A Website
Award winning websites for Professional Photographers. The only completely customizable template in the world.
Very close cos 0.914 - 07
Client Challenge
American hosting service, owned by Scribd, for professional content including presentations, infographics, documents, and videos
Very close cos 0.915 - 08
Cloud storage and data transfer services ~ pixeldrain
Pixeldrain is a file transfer service, you can upload any file and you will be given a shareable link right away. pixeldrain also supports previews for images, videos, audio, PDFs and much more.
Very close cos 0.912 - 09
Vimeo - All-in-One Video Platform
The video platform trusted by 287 million creatives, entrepreneurs, and businesses. Everything you need to create, manage, and share stunning videos.
Very close cos 0.910 - 10
Hostinger - Bring Your Idea Online With a Website
Choose Hostinger and make the perfect site. From Shared Hosting and Domains to VPS and Cloud plans. We have all you need for online success.
Very close cos 0.912 - 11 Very close cos 0.904
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YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Very close cos 0.906 - 13
Hostgator.com
404: Page not found. You might ensure the URL is spelled correctly, or if you followed a link here please let us know. Please try one of the links below in order to reach your desired destination.
Very close cos 0.904 - 14
Flickr | The best place to be a photographer online.
The nicest place on the internet is here for you: inspiration, community, creativity, art, passion, and a heaping scoop of weirdness await you. Join for free.
Very close cos 0.900 - 15
Web Hosting Built to Grow With You | hosting.com
Web hosting that takes you from idea to website to a lasting business. Fast and secure, with free migration, real experts 24/7 and a 99.9% uptime SLA.
Very close cos 0.902 - 16
American photo storage and image hosting website
Very close cos 0.898 - 17
Free, Easy Online Stores for Artists & Small Businesses
Start your free online store & scale as you grow. Easily manage your e-commerce business. Join a community of artists & small businesses.
Very close cos 0.900 - 18
File sharing and storage made simple
MediaFire is a simple to use free service that lets you put all your photos, documents, music, and video in a single place so you can access them anywhere and share them everywhere.
Very close cos 0.899 - 19
Shutterfly | Photo Books, Cards, Prints, Wall Art, Gifts, Wedding
Shop Shutterfly for custom photo books, prints, cards, invitations, gifts, wall art, calendars, and more. Personalize your favorite moments with high-quality, meaningful photo products.
Very close cos 0.896 - 20
free image hosting website
Close cos 0.894
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to smugmug.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones SmugMug uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What SmugMug is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1488.awsdns-58.org
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=TgOLLHFpQq2Vo30Hxzddllz1ji7PkMt0vV2E5B3…
- DocuSign TXT docusign=db2c269a-ec4f-4e67-ae5f-1ef42b248990
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=-nck5ImlodD2x9hVKFtLY2lgmH0nTzkkhqrYMGTbATQ
- Miro TXT miro-verification=57e9f2368bcc8d66648f3d731cb9a81eda2d084b
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what SmugMug adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Google Workspace 14/20
- Amazon Route 53 9/20
- Cloudflare · not on smugmug.com 7/20
- Google Fonts · not on smugmug.com 6/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on smugmug.com 6/20
- Atlassian 5/20
- Zendesk · not on smugmug.com 5/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on smugmug.com 5/20
- Google Analytics · not on smugmug.com 4/20
- Amazon SES · not on smugmug.com 4/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on smugmug.com 4/20
- GlobalSign · not on smugmug.com 4/20
- Stripe · not on smugmug.com 4/20
- OpenAI · not on smugmug.com 4/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on smugmug.com 4/20