Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Spotify
The 20 closest music streaming API alternatives to Spotify, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 6 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Spotify? The closest matches are DEV Community, Audiomack and Softpedia. 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
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- Query
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01 · Entity
About Spotify
Spotify spotify.dev
Home | Spotify for Developers
Summary by Claude
Developer portal for Spotify's APIs and SDKs. It provides documentation, tutorials, design guidelines and community support for building apps that use Spotify's music and podcast catalog.
- Who it’s for
- Software developers and app partners
- Business model
- Free developer program supporting Spotify's subscription and advertising business
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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DEV Community
A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career
Very close cos 0.902 - 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.
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software and tech-news website based in Romania
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Snap for Developers
Documentation for various Snap Inc. products to help empower developers.
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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.
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API development platform
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LITEAPKS - #1 MOD APK for Android
LITEAPKS.COM is the leading reputable source for mod apk, free games and apps for Android
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AI App and Website Builder | Replit
Describe what you want. Replit builds it. Get a working app or website in minutes. No coding required.
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GitHub · Change is constant. GitHub keeps you ahead. · GitHub · GitHub
Join the world's most widely adopted, AI-powered developer platform where millions of developers, businesses, and the largest open source community build software that advances humanity.
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podcast hosting service
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Piano | Data-Driven Customer Engagement Solutions
Welcome to Piano, the leading platform for data analytics, audience segmentation, and customer engagement. Discover how we help businesses grow through data-driven insights.
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Acast: The Best Podcast Monetization Platform
Acast helps podcasters earn more. As the leading podcast monetization platform, we connect creators with premium advertisers to drive reliable revenue.
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Build, manage, & optimize real-time apps at scale | PubNub
Power your real-time app with PubNub - the world's largest pub/sub network. Scale to 3 trillion API calls/month, with <30ms global delivery. Start building now!
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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.
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tidal.com
subscription-based music streaming service
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Pusher | Leader In Realtime Technologies
Simple, scalable and reliable. Hosted realtime APIs loved by developers and trusted by giants. Build live dashboards, notifications, geotracking, chat and more.
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Real-Time Engagement & Conversational AI Platform | Agora
Build ultra-low latency voice, video, chat, and voice AI experiences for meaningful human-to-human and human-to-AI conversations, with flexible APIs and no-code & low-code tools.
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Free Podcast hosting and Monetizing Platform | Podbean
Podbean podcast hosting and monetizing platform helps you start a podcast. All the tools you need to create, promote and monetize your podcast.
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XDA
The world’s best source for computing news, reviews, editorials guides, and more.
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to spotify.dev’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
- JavaScript frameworks
- Hosting
- Google Cloud header via: HTTP/1.1 fringe, HTTP/2 edgeproxy, 1.1 google
- Web servers
- Envoy header server: envoy
- DNS hosting
- Google Cloud DNS NS ns-cloud-b1.googledomains.com
- NS1 NS dns3.p07.nsone.net
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 · not on spotify.dev 20/20
- Google Workspace · not on spotify.dev 13/20
- Apple Business · not on spotify.dev 11/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on spotify.dev 10/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on spotify.dev 8/20
- Stripe · not on spotify.dev 8/20
- Amazon SES · not on spotify.dev 7/20
- Zendesk · not on spotify.dev 7/20
- Cloudflare · not on spotify.dev 7/20
- Google Analytics · not on spotify.dev 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on spotify.dev 6/20
- GlobalSign · not on spotify.dev 6/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on spotify.dev 6/20
- React 6/20
- Atlassian · not on spotify.dev 6/20
- OpenAI · not on spotify.dev 6/20