Alternatives and competitors
Sites like SPEC
The 20 closest computer performance benchmarking alternatives to SPEC, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 3 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to SPEC? The closest matches are Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Society for Human Resource Management and Tom's Hardware. 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 SPEC
SPEC spec.org
SPEC - Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation
Wikidata: American non-profit corporation
Summary by Claude
Non-profit consortium that develops and licenses standardized, vendor-neutral benchmarks for measuring computer system performance and energy efficiency, publishes benchmark results, and co-organizes performance engineering conferences.
- Who it’s for
- Hardware and software vendors, researchers, IT buyers
- Business model
- Membership dues and benchmark license fees
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to SPEC’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 SPEC
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to SPEC, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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American professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering
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Welcome to SHRM | The Voice of All Things Work
For all things work, turn to SHRM, the world’s largest HR association dedicated to creating better workplaces that work for all.
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Tom's Hardware: For The Hardcore PC Enthusiast
Tom's Hardware helps you buy the best hardware and build the best PC to play, create and work..
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international learned society for computing
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IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is the premier Internet standards body, developing open standards through open processes.
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Intel Inside - Built for AI
Deliver AI at scale across cloud, data center, edge, and client with comprehensive hardware and software solutions.
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College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools
College Board is a non-profit organization that clears a path for all students to own their future through the AP Program, SAT Suite, BigFuture, and more.
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Reinvented with Accenture
Accenture embraces the power of change to create 360° value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities. Learn more.
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network monitoring company
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Home Page - Supplyframe
A Global Engineering Network
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American information technology company
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company
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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.
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Index
computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
consortium dedicated to scientific research
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ManageEngine: ITOps, cybersecurity & service management software
ManageEngine powers businesses like yours to take control of your IT with enterprise-grade solutions built from the ground up.
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Speedtest by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test
Use Speedtest on all your devices with our free desktop and mobile apps.
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Welcome to The Apache Software Foundation | Apache Software Foundation
American nonprofit open-source software community
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W3C
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops standards and guidelines to help everyone build a web based on the principles of accessibility, internationalization, privacy and security.
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to spec.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones SPEC uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What SPEC is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:400,400i,700,700i&display=swap
- Web servers
- Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace TXT v=spf1 ip4:38.146.202.0/26 include:_spf.google.com -all
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what SPEC adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on spec.org 20/20
- Atlassian · not on spec.org 12/20
- Apple Business · not on spec.org 10/20
- Google Workspace 9/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on spec.org 8/20
- DocuSign · not on spec.org 8/20
- OneTrust · not on spec.org 8/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on spec.org 7/20
- Adobe · not on spec.org 6/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on spec.org 6/20
- GlobalSign · not on spec.org 5/20
- OpenAI · not on spec.org 5/20
- Cloudflare · not on spec.org 5/20
- Proofpoint · not on spec.org 5/20
- Canva · not on spec.org 4/20
- Miro · not on spec.org 4/20