Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Spotify
The 20 closest music streaming alternatives to Spotify, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 18 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Spotify? The closest matches are SoundCloud, Audiomack and Tidal. 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.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 7 ms
01 · Entity
About Spotify
Spotify spotify.com
Spotify - Web Player: Listen to Music, Podcasts, and Audiobooks Online
Spotify is a digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs, podcasts, and audiobooks. Listen to your favorites online now.
Wikidata: Swedish audio streaming service
Summary by Claude
Audio streaming service offering on-demand access to millions of songs, podcasts and audiobooks via web player, desktop and mobile apps, with a free ad-supported tier and paid Premium subscriptions.
- Who it’s for
- General consumers who listen to music and podcasts
- Business model
- Subscriptions and advertising
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Spotify’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 Spotify
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Spotify, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Stream and listen to music online for free with SoundCloud
Discover and play over 320 million music tracks. Join the world’s largest online community of artists, bands, DJs, and audio creators.
Very close cos 0.945 - 02
Audiomack - Music platform empowering artists & fans | Audiomack
Audiomack is a youth-driven, artist-first music streaming platform that allows creators to share unlimited music and podcast content for free.
Very close cos 0.941 - 03
tidal.com
subscription-based music streaming service
Very close cos 0.936 - 04
Mixcloud - This is Audio Culture
Join a global community where creators craft a deeper listening experience.
Very close cos 0.929 - 05
Deezer | 1 Month Free | Music Streaming app online
Try Deezer at 0EUR! 120+ million tracks & podcasts in high resolution audio quality, ad-free, offline unlimited music and playlists. Plans from 11,99 €/month.
Very close cos 0.923 - 06
Audible | Listen to Audiobooks, Podcasts, & Originals
Try Audible free for 30 days. Discover best-selling audiobooks, free podcasts, and exclusive Audible Originals. Listen offline with the Audible app.
Very close cos 0.915 - 07
Online Songs on JioSaavn: Download & Play Latest Music for Free
Listen to Latest and Trending Bollywood Hindi songs online for free with JioSaavn anytime, anywhere. Download or listen to unlimited new & old Hindi songs online. Search from most trending, weekly top 15, Hindi movie songs, etc on JioSaavn.
Very close cos 0.914 - 08
Listen to the Best Podcasts & Shows Online, Free | iHeart
Listen to the latest episodes from top podcasts. Get news, sports & lifestyle info from your favorite personalities for free!
Very close cos 0.909 - 09
The leading podcast platform in Spanish - iVoox
Enjoy thousands of podcasts, audiobooks and radio stations in the biggest audio catalog in Spanish. Listen for free wherever and whenever you want on iVoox!
Very close cos 0.903 - 10
online education platform
Very close cos 0.902 - 11
SiriusXM: Music, Sports, Talk & Podcasts, Live & On Demand
Whether it’s new hip-hop and classic comedy or ‘90s jams and sports podcasts, everything you want to hear lives here at SiriusXM.
Very close cos 0.899 - 12
Prime Video | Watch movies, TV shows, Live TV, and sports
Watch now on Prime Video for a wide selection of movies, TV shows, live TV, and sports.
Very close cos 0.898 - 13
Tubi is the largest free movie and TV streaming service in the US. We are not available in Europe due to changes in EU laws.
American streaming video service
Very close cos 0.897 - 14
HBO Max | Stream Series and Movies
Stream must-see series, hit movies, exclusive originals, family favorites, and live sports.
Very close cos 0.897 - 15
Pluto TV: Watch Free Movies, TV Shows & Live TV Online
Watch your choice of free hit movies, free binge-worthy TV shows & live TV online, anytime. Stream Now. Pay Never.
Very close cos 0.897 - 16
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 0.897 - 17
TuneIn | Free Internet Radio | Live News, Sports, Music, Audiobooks, and Podcasts
Listen to free internet radio, news, sports, music, audiobooks, and podcasts. Stream live CNN, FOX News Radio, and MS NOW. Plus 100,000 AM/FM radio stations featuring music, news, and local sports talk.
Close cos 0.893 - 18
4shared - free file sharing and storage
Online file sharing and storage - 15 GB free web space. Easy registration. File upload progressor. Multiple file transfer. Fast download.
Close cos 0.892 - 19
Client Challenge
American online music distributor
Close cos 0.889 - 20
Last.fm | Play music, find songs, and discover artists
The world's largest online music service. Listen online, find out more about your favourite artists, and get music recommendations, only at Last.fm
Close cos 0.885
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to spotify.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Spotify uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Spotify is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Marketing automation
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust TXT onetrust-domain-verification=508849d40e2b4b8fba2b7eaf84f1bddc
- Security
- reCAPTCHA page source: google.com/recaptcha/enterprise.js
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-ber1080044-BER
- Hosting
- Google Cloud header via: HTTP/1.1 fringe, HTTP/2 edgeproxy, 1.1 google, 1.1 varnish
- Web servers
- Envoy header server: envoy
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms38184034
- DNS hosting
- Google Cloud DNS NS ns-cloud-a2.googledomains.com
- NS1 NS dns1.p07.nsone.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=Dxae2sKJD2O5TKGK
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=1My5WsxLluUY8uIjgbLs4MY3ySFp32k9aYNW2IR…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=uD4f4k01lFWX3qwVbqnVaJg8atpKgAgc-_RYcyT3ofU
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=qyrvuca7h4s7wevhzbprtt3tdyyhf1
- Notion TXT notion-domain-verification=AqUDuql68X5rQ1qLwho6huUjf4QteXZlyvTIKS1txnq
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-VNYvLsJIttFvRz7ymxFgjrPC
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 ip4:80.76.146.172 ip4:80.76.146.173 include:_spf.google.com in…
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Spotify adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 15/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on spotify.com 13/20
- Apple Business 10/20
- Atlassian 10/20
- Meta Business Suite 10/20
- Microsoft 365 9/20
- Amazon SES · not on spotify.com 8/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on spotify.com 6/20
- Zendesk · not on spotify.com 6/20
- GlobalSign · not on spotify.com 5/20
- OneTrust 5/20
- OpenAI 5/20
- Notion 4/20
- Stripe · not on spotify.com 4/20
- Zoom · not on spotify.com 4/20